MBN Research Center is represented by a team of professionals working on the development of the state-of-the-art scientific software for advanced research investigations and computational modelling of molecular structure and dynamics of Meso-Bio-Nano (MBN) systems. The Center coordinates efforts on the advertisement of its software products and their broad distribution. It offers hands-on tutorials for the software users, training courses in application of the software in different areas of academic and industrial research, organisers advanced courses and summer schools in theoretical and computational physics. MBN Research Center carries out a broad program of frontier research based on the utilisation of its universal software. It maintains cooperation with a large number of partners (individual researchers, research teams and institutions) worldwide, participates in collaborative research projects, organises thematic conferences.
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The future of significant fraction of European industry is associated with the creation of an integrated environment for numerical design and modelling. This encompasses a wide range of end-products and applications in nanoelectronics, nanomaterials and their adoption within transportation, avionics, polymer technologies, medicine, etc. In most of these areas simulations need to operate over a wide range of scales, ranging from the molecular and the nanoscale to the micro and sometimes even to macro-dimensions. Such multiscale modelling usually integrates different physical and chemical phenomena and is currently one of the hot topics of theoretical and computational research. Multiscale modelling may save crucial time and money in product development processes, and hence play a key role in industrial competitiveness. The development of multiscale modeling tools is necessarily parallel with the development and widening of modern methods of high-performance computing. The implementation and success of the versatile numerical design and modelling requires a close and wide cooperation of European industrial and academic players.
MBN Research Center develops the universal software package called MBN Explorer. MBN Explorer has many unique features, a wide range of applications in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Material Science, and related Industries. It is suitable for multiscale simulations of a large range of molecular systems of different kind, such as nano- and biological systems, nanostructured materials, composite/hybrid materials, gases, liquids, solids and various interfaces, with the sizes ranging from atomic to mesoscopic.
It is suitable for classical molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo and relativistic dynamics simulating of a large range of molecular systems of different kind, such as nano- and biological systems, nanostructured materials, composite/hybrid materials, gases, liquids, solids and various interfaces, with sizes ranging from atomic to mesoscopic dimensions. Such knowledge is required in an enormous number of applications, e.g. in avionics and automobile industry for designing of nanostructured materials, functionalized surface coatings, stronger and lighter materials for aircrafts and cars (providing high-performance in extreme conditions), in mechanical engineering for virtual design of superhard nanostructured materials, in medical applications for nanostructured implants (nTi, nMg, nFe etc), in cement industry for the design of superplasticizers allowing the production of a concrete with higher compressive strength, in electronic and chemical industry for construction of highly efficient batteries, catalysers, in pharm industry for drug design, etc. In most of these applications it is necessary to identify and/or design specific properties of the system determined by its molecular structure on the nanoscale and to ensure their transfer to the macroscopic scale in order to make them functional and usable. Such a transition implies a multiscale modelling supported in MBN Explorer through a combination of MD and MC simulations.
MBN Research Center maintains collaborative links with many teams of the Goethe University and over 30 other Partners from Europe, USA, Australia, South Africa and Russia. The list of actual MBN Research Center partners can be found here. They participate either in the development or utilization of MBN Research Center software products, or data bases, or conduct joint research, training, tutorials, conference organization with the MBN Research Center team.