Decoding the energy landscape: Extracting structure, dynamics and thermodynamics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1969, 2012, Pages 2877-2899

  Wales, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy landscapes; Global optimization; Self organization

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR CLUSTERS; CATASTROPHE THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; CONDENSED MATTER; DISCONNECTIVITY GRAPHS; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; INTERPARTICLE FORCE; LOCAL MINIMUMS; POTENTIAL ENERGY LANDSCAPES; RELAXATION TIME SCALE; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SYMMETRY CONSIDERATION; TRANSITION STATE;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

BIOPOLYMER; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84861946897     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0208     Document Type: Article

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