Materials Design by Computers

Biological materials by design.

In this topical review we discuss recent advances in the use of physical insight into the way biological materials function, to design novel engineered materials 'from scratch', or from the level of fundamental building blocks upwards and by using computational multiscale methods that link chemistry to material function. We present studies that connect advances in multiscale hierarchical materi...

Computers and Creative Design

This paper introduces notions of creativity and creative design as a form of computational exploration. Exploration is used as a means of defining spaces which are then searched. It is shown that schemas provide an opportunity to describe exploration. Emergence as a process which modifies schemas is described, as a 'creative process'. Visual emergence is elaborated and other forms of emergence ...

Can Computers Design ? Design Futures Final Submission

Advanced Computational Techniques for Materials-by-design

Modeling of uncertainty propagation in multi-scale models of deformation is extremely complex considering the nonlinear coupled phenomena that need to be accounted for. The ongoing work addresses key mathematical and computational issues related to robust control of deformation processes. Our research accomplishments for this year include development of new mathematical models based on spectral...

Materials by Design: Merging Proteins and Music.

Tailored materials with tunable properties are crucial for applications as biomaterials, for drug delivery, as functional coatings, or as lightweight composites. An emerging paradigm in designing such materials is the construction of hierarchical assemblies of simple building blocks into complex architectures with superior properties. We review this approach in a case study of silk, a genetical...