NanoMaterialsCAD: Flexible Software for the Design of Nanostructures
2021 (English)In: Advanced Theory and Simulations, E-ISSN 2513-0390, Vol. 4, no 1, article id 2000232Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
NanoMaterialsCAD is a new open source tool dedicated to the creation, manipulation, and 3D visualization of crystalline structures at the nanoscale. It is designed for preprocessing atomistic configurations to be used as input for atomistic (e.g., molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo) or ab initio (e.g., density functional theory) computer simulations. It offers several tools for designing complex nanostructures (including nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nanoscrolls, etc., and combinations/permutations of them) which are either lacking or cumbersome in other existing packages. Through its intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) it enables facile ways to design and modify the size/shape and relative positions of nanoobjects while observing the changes in real time. NanoMaterialsCAD is written in C++, and exploits Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) (for the GUI), Win32API (for interaction with Windows), and Assembly (for fast data management). The source code and executable file are available for download from GitHub (https://github.com/cossphy/NanoMaterialsCAD). It is aspired that NanoMaterialsCAD will be adopted by the nanomaterials modeling community as a valuable resource; to this end it will be kept improving, incorporating more nanostructures, and adding extra functionalities to its toolbox.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiley , 2021. Vol. 4, no 1, article id 2000232
Keywords [en]
CAD, GUI, nanoparticles, nanostructures, Application programming interfaces (API), Density functional theory, Graphical user interfaces, Information management, Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo methods, Open source software, Three dimensional computer graphics, 3D Visualization, Crystalline structure, Designing complex, Executable files, Graphical user interfaces (GUI), Model communities, Open source tools, Relative positions, C++ (programming language)
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316051DOI: 10.1002/adts.202000232ISI: 000595497300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85096896067OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316051DiVA, id: diva2:1687004
Note
QC 20220812
2022-08-122022-08-122022-08-12Bibliographically approved