Aluminum: a safe, economical, high energy density material for energy storage, transport and splitting water to make hydrogen on demand

30 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jerry M. Woodall

In 1968, a team lead by the author discovered that liquid gallium saturated with aluminum at room temperature would split water into hydrogen gas, alumina and heat. More recently his current team has …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6568

C.V. Raman and the Impact of Raman Effect in Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter, and Materials Science

18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Anant K. Ramdas

Raman’s momentous discovery in 1928 that the spectral analysis of the light scattered by matter, illuminated with monochromatic light of frequency ωL, reveals new signatures at (ωL ± ωi) , …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5453

Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 4: Geometry Optimization and Seeing What You're Doing

13 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

In this lecture, we discuss various methods for finding the ground state structure of a given system by minimizing its energy. Derivative and non-derivative methods are discussed, as well as the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4035

Computing the Horribleness of Soft Condensed Matter

19 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Jakobsson

A great triumph of computer simulations 40 years ago was to make the liquid state of matter understandable in terms of physical interactions between individual molecules. Prior to the first …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3424

Fun in the Sand: Some Experiments in Granular Physics

25 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peter E. Schiffer

In the last two decades, condensed matter physicists have begun an intense study of the dynamic and static properties of granular media (materials made from individual acroscopic solid grains). These …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8491

Thermoelectric Power Factor Calculator for Superlattices

18 Oct 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Terence Musho, Greg Walker

Quantum Simulation of the Seebeck Coefficient and Electrical Conductivity in 1D Superlattice Structures using Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions

https://nanohub.org/resources/5602