Week - 1 |
Introduction to Modelling Materials |
Week - 2 |
Scale and dimensionality of nanomaterials: 0D nanoclusters, 1D nanowires, 2D thin films, 3D nanosystems |
Week - 3 |
Simulation methods for different time and length scales |
Week - 4 |
Useful Concepts in Molecular Modelling: visualization, scripts and automation of tasks |
Week - 5 |
Take-home Exam |
Week - 6 |
Empirical Force Field Models: Molecular Mechanics |
Week - 7 |
ab initio Methods, Density Functional Theory and Solid-state Quantum Mechanics |
Week - 8 |
Minimisation and Related Methods for Exploring the Energy Surface: Global and Local Optimisations |
Week - 9 |
Global Optimisation methods: Genetic algorithm, basin hopping method, simulated annealing |
Week - 10 |
Mid-term Exam |
Week - 11 |
Monte Carlo simulation methods |
Week - 12 |
Molecular Dynamics simulation methods |
Week - 13 |
Overview of application areas of modelling materials in nanotechnology |
Week - 14 |
Final Exam (oral presentation) |