Category: ptg
Nanoparticles: from fundamentals to applications in life sciences
The CCMX Winter School will once again take place in Kandersteg, Switzerland. Aiming to bring together a group of no more than 24 PhD students from various research institutions, the course is designed to cover a series of important scientific aspects regarding the development, characterization and application of nanoparticles for medical applications and to provide (…)
Know your cement, get greener concrete
by ETH Zurich An international team of scientists has created a new database of molecular dynamics models that simulate the properties of cement in all its varieties. It’s intended to help fine-tune this component of concrete and curtail emissions in its manufacturing process.Cement is used to bind concrete, the most-used construction material in the world (…)
Database clarifies bottom-up design of cement
The database is called cemff, for Cement Force Fields. It gathers methods for simulating force-field parameters for the various types of inorganic minerals present in cement, which is used to bind concrete, the most-used construction material in the world. In this case, the force field is the collection of parameters scientists use to build computer models of atomic (…)