MedeA Software Features

Configure MedeA by selecting functionality relevant to your work, along with installation options that match your hardware environment!

The standard MedeA Environment includes the following modules:

  • Builders: Solids, surfaces, point defects, random substitution, polymer, molecules, layers
  • Databases: COD (Crystallography Open Database)
  • Compute engines: MedeA LAMMPS - Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator
  • GUIs: Graphical workflow editor, MedeA LAMMPS GUI - Graphical User Interface
  • Forcefields: The highly precise and very comprehensive all-atom PCFF+ forcefield, along with additional forcefields for both organic and inorganic materials
  • Analysis: Geometry, symmetry, void analysis, point defects, trajectories, volumetric properties
  • Job Control: Jobserver/Taskserver (web-based job control and job monitoring)

In addition, the MedeA Environment can be configured to offer the following modules and engines:

Property Modules working with VASP

  • MedeA MT - Mechanical, thermal properties
  • MedeA Phonon - Vibrational properties and thermodynamic functions
  • MedeA Electronics - 3D electronic analysis, Seebeck coefficients, electronic conductivity, effective masses
  • MedeA Transition State Search - Reaction pathways and transition states
  • MedeA UNCLE - UNiversal CLuster Expansion for alloying, defects, configurational disorder
  • MedeA FFO - Forcefield Optimizer
  • MedeA Deformation - Evaluates stress-strain relationships of materials beyond the elastic regime

Property Modules working with LAMMPS

  • MedeA Phonon - Vibrational properties and thermodynamic functions
  • MedeA MT - Mechanical, thermal properties
  • MedeA UNCLE - UNiversal CLuster Expansion for alloying, defects, configurational disorder
  • MedeA Diffusion - Automated calculation of diffusion coefficients
  • MedeA Thermal Conductivity - Automated calculation of thermal conductivity coefficient
  • MedeA Viscosity - Automated calculation of viscosity
  • MedeA Surface Tension - Automated calculation of surface tension
  • MedeA Cohesive Energy Density (CED) - Automated calculation of cohesive energy density
  • MedeA FFO - Forcefield Optimizer
  • MedeA Deposition - Automated deposition of atoms/particles on materials surfaces
  • MedeA Deformation - Evaluates stress-strain relationships of materials beyond the elastic regime

Property Modules for Machine Learning

  • MedeA MLP - LAMMPS simulations using MLP forcefields; Library of ready-to-use MLPs, including the foundational GRACE 1L/2L models
  • MedeA MLPG - Generator for Machine-learning Potentials

Property Modules based on Correlations

  • MedeA Polymer Expert - Exploration and de novo design of polymeric materials with desired properties
  • MedeA P3C - Polymer properties from Correlations, employing the Bicerano method
  • MedeA QT - An interactive Toolkit for statistical correlations

Builders

  • MedeA Amorphous Materials Builder - Amorphous structures, Polymers
  • MedeA Thermosets Builder - Construction of strain-free polymer network models with realistic crosslink densities
  • MedeA Docking - Adsorbate systems
  • MedeA Interface Builder - Construction of heterogeneous crystalline interfaces and grain boundaries (available as add-ons)
  • MedeA Mesoscale Builder - Creation of coarse-grained models for mesoscale simulations (microseconds and tens of nanometers)
  • MedeA Microstructure Builder - Microstructure models for atomistic simulations
  • MedeA Morphology - Crystal morphologies

Databases

  • MedeA COD GUI - Crystallography Open Database
  • MedeA ICSD - Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
  • MedeA Pearsons - The Pearsons database
  • MedeA NCD - The NIST Crystal Database
  • MSI Phase Diagrams - The MSI Eureka database of phase diagrams and related materials property data
  • Polymer Expert Analog Repeat-Unit Library (PEARL) - Curated database of over 3 million polymer repeat units

High-Throughput

  • MedeA HT-Launchpad - Structure lists and parallel task submission, parallel workflow creation
  • MedeA HT-Descriptor - Data-mining and descriptor-based screening

Learn more about MedeA: Databases, Builders, Compute Engines, Property Modules, High-Throughput and Analysis Tools.

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