| Apr 09, 2019 | |
A significant supercomputing grant for investigations of atomically precise nanocatalysts(Nanowerk News) The project runs for the next 12 months in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and focuses on large-scale density functional theory calculations and molecular dynamics simulations to investigate chemical reactions catalysed by atomically precise, ligand-stabilized metal nanoclusters. |
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| These cluster materials are emerging catalysts, e.g., for hydrogenation reactions of organic molecules in solution-phase catalysis. Their atomic structures are known, which offers unique possibilities to correlate the catalytic activity to atomically defined reaction mechanisms. | |
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| Professors Hannu Häkkinen and Karoliina Honkala at the University of Jyväskyla's Nanoscience Center. | |
| PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe is a non-profit association of 26 European member countries that promotes high-performance computing by awarding significant computational resources to scientific projects based on annual calls for proposals that go through a peer-review evaluation. | |
| "This is already the fourth significant supercomputing grant that my group has received through competitive evaluation of the proposals in the PRACE organization since 2012. Professor Honkala and I look forward to combining our expertise on ligand-stabilized metal nanoclusters and computational catalysis, and to intensify collaborations to our partners doing experimental research on these nanocatalysts in China and in the Netherlands", Häkkinen comments. | |
| "The large-scale atomistic simulations in this project will also produce huge datasets encompassing structure-property correlations that will be used later in a parallel project aiming at using artificial intelligence to understand nanochemistry and catalytic reactions", he says. |
| Source: University of Jyväskylä | |
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