Theory and Simulation in Physics for Materials Applications: Cutting-Edge Techniques in Theoretical and Computational Materials Science [Hardcover]

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the latest advances, challenges and accomplishments in the rapidly growing field of theoretical and computational materials science. Today, an increasing number of industrial communities rely more and more on advanced atomic-scale methods to obtain reliable predictions of materials properties, complement qualitative experimental analyses and circumvent experimental difficulties. The book examines some of the latest and most advanced simulation techniques currently available, as well as up-to-date theoretical approaches adopted by a selected panel of twelve international research teams. It covers a wide range of novel and advanced materials, exploring their structural, elastic, optical, mass and electronic transport properties. The cutting-edge techniques presented appeal to physicists, applied mathematicians and engineers interested in advanced simulation methods in materials science. The book can also be used as additional literature for undergraduate and postgraduate students with majors in physics, chemistry, applied mathematics and engineering.

Development of Advanced Simulation Methods: The Predictive Power.- Making Computer Materials Real: The Predictive Power of First-Principles Molecular Dynamics.- Assessing The Versatility of Molecular Modelling as a Strategy for Predicting Gas Adsorption Properties of Chalcogels.- Modelling Electrochemical Processes and Defects in Semiconductor Materials Through Constant Fermi Level Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics.- Controlling the Complexity of First Principles Simulations of Materials via Large Scale Wavelet-Based Density Functional Theory.- Elastic Properties of Materials.- Amorphous Sn-Ti Oxides: New Insights from Self-Consistent Hybrid Functional Calculations.- Recent Advances in Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations of Transport Properties of Materials.- Diffusion Kinetics and Binary Liquid Alloys with Demixing Tendency: Case Slc(