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Projects: Materials Science

ALCF projects cover many scientific disciplines, ranging from biology and physics to materials science and energy technologies. Filter ongoing and past projects by allocation program, scientific domain, and year.

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours 45 Million Core-Hours

Reactive MD Simulation of Shock-Induced Cavitation Damage

PI Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California

Billion atom reactive molecular dynamics simulation of nanobubble collapse in wa

Award INCITE
Domain Materials Science
Hours 10 Million Core-Hours

Probing the non-scalable nano regime in catalytic nanoparticles with electronic structure calculations

PI Jeffrey Greeley, Argonne National Laboratory

Award DD
Domain Materials Science

Hierarchical Petascale Simulation Framework for Stress Corrosion Cracking

PI Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California

Modeling Nickel Fractures and Next-Generation Reactors

Award ALCC
Domain Materials Science
Hours 20 Million Core-Hours

Materials Design from First Principles Calculations

PI Larry Curtiss, Argonne National Laboratory

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Projects: Materials Science

Reactive MD Simulation of Shock-Induced Cavitation Damage

Probing the non-scalable nano regime in catalytic nanoparticles with electronic structure calculations

Hierarchical Petascale Simulation Framework for Stress Corrosion Cracking

Materials Design from First Principles Calculations