Links
Learning Resources
- Materials Cloud - Learn
- Paolo Giannozzi's class on numerical methods for electronic structure (in Italian)
- Paolo Giannozzi's class on numerical methods for quantum mechanics
Materials Databases
Below you can find a list of computational and experimental materials databases. A publicly maintained list of resources for materials informatics can be found here.
Computational
- Materials Cloud - Discover section
- AFLOWLIB.ORG a distributed materials genome properties repository from high-throughput ab-initio calculation (Duke Uni)
- Materials Project, A materials genome approach (MIT and LBNL)
- Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Design (Danmarks Tekniske Uni)
- The Electronic Structure Project - Identifying New/Novel Functional Materials (Uppsala Uni)
- "Comparing Solid State DFT Codes, Basis Sets and Potentials", Center for Molecular Modeling, Ghent Univerity, Belgium
- Quantum Materials Informatics Project
- Open Quantum Materials Database (Northwestern)
- TCOD
- JARVIS (elastic constants from force-fields)
- PLUMED-nest (Molecular dynamics)
- Computational 2D Materials Database (C2DB)
Experimental
- MatNavi, from the National Institute of Materials Science (Japan)
- Crystal Impact - Software for Chemists and Material Scientists
- Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
- Inorganic Crystal Structures Database
- The Cambridge Structural Database
- The PAULING File (Pierre Villars)
- COD
- Material Properties Open Database
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- Knovel Online Scientific Library
- NRL Crystallographic & Electronic Structure Databases
- Bilbao Crystallographic Server
- Landolt-Bornstein Search Database
- Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
- American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
- The International Centre for Diffraction Data
- The Raman Open Database
- Automated Topology Builder (ATB) and Repository
Journals
- MIT Virtual Electronic Resource Access (Vera)
- arXiv
- Physical Review Online Archive
- American Chemical Society Journals
Scientific Search Engines
- ISI Web of Knowledge
- List of MIT-accessible Online Databases
- Science Direct
- Google Scholar
- Digital Library for Physics and Astronomy (Literature parser)
Other Links
- Psi-k Network
- Polylex, the repository for all EPFL legal text
- ElectronicStructure.org
- NIST Database of Physical Constants
- Wolfram's ScienceWorld
- Database of Classical Interatomic Potentials
- Numerical Recipes (Online)
- EPFL/UNIL accommodation listings
- Top 20 citations in physics: Top20.pdf
Software
- Quantum ESPRESSO
- AiiDA
- Wannier90
- EasyBuild support for QE
- Tips on QE compilation and libraries from Glen K. Lockwood's blog
- Xmgrace (2-D plotting)
- Gnuplot (2-D plotting)
- Visual Molecular Dynamics (visualization)
- XCrysDen (visualization)
- gOpenMol (visualization)
- Molden (visualization, constructing simple molecular systems)
- OpenDX (visualization and plotting)
- Xmatrix/Matpack (3-D and contour plotting)
- List of MD visualization suites
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Jim Carrey and Conan O'Brien explain the physics of Penning Traps; here is the actual PRL article by Lapidus, Enzer and Gabrielse
- The Independent: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A fish: The most highbrow jokes in the world
- PhD Comics
- xkcd Comics
- Horse Racing, Futurama
- PRL article on the dynamics of spaghetti crumbling (see Ref. 11)
- arXiv on the growth of diamond films from Tequila
Where is electronic structure going ?
- Read my introduction to the Handbook of Materials Modeling (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005) Understand, predict, and design
Docs
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