BIOVIA MATERIALS STUDIO
OVERVIEW
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Modeling and Simulation for Next Generation Materials. BIOVIA Materials Studio® is a complete modeling and
simulation environment that enables researchers in materials science and chemistry to develop new materials
by predicting the relationships of a material’s atomic and molecular structure with its properties and behavior.
Using Materials Studio, researchers in many industries can engineer better performing materials of all types,
including pharmaceuticals, catalysts, polymers and composites, metals and alloys, batteries and fuel cells,
nanomaterials, and more.
Materials Studio is the world’s most advanced, yet easy Materials Visualizer provides capability to construct, manipulate
to use environment for modeling and evaluating materials and view models of molecules, crystalline materials, surfaces,
performance and behavior. Using Materials Studio, materials polymers, and mesoscale structures. It also supports the full
scientists experience the following benefits: range of Materials Studio simulations with capabilities to
• Reduction in cost and time associated with physical testing visualize results through images, animations, graphs, charts,
and experimentation through “Virtual Screening” of candidate tables, and textual data. Most tools in the Materials Visualizer
material variations. can also be accessed through the MaterialsScript API, allowing
• Acceleration of the innovation process - developing new, better expert users to create custom capabilities and automate
performing, more sustainable, and cost effective materials faster repetitive tasks. Materials Visualizer’s Microsoft Windows
than can be done with physical testing and experimentation. client operates with a range of Windows and Linux server
• Improved fundamental understanding of the relationship
architectures to provide a highly responsive user experience.
between atomic and molecular structure with material
properties and behavior.
• Powerful materials informatics capabilities through adoption SOLUTION TECHNOLOGIES
of computational materials science as a complement to Materials Studio provides a complete range of simulation
laboratory experimentation. capabilities from quantum, atomistic, mesoscale, statistical,
• Automation & best-practice sharing with the Materials analytical and crystallization tools. Its’ broad range of solutions
Studio Collection for BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot, as well as the
enable researchers to evaluate materials at various particle sizes
MaterialsScript API.
and time scales in order to predict properties more accurately
VISUALIZATION and evaluate performance in the shortest time possible.
Chemists, polymer scientists, and other materials scientists
become productive faster and with less effort using Materials
Visualizer, the easiest to use and most complete graphical
user environment for materials modeling and simulation.
QUANTUM TOOLS
Materials Studio provides a range of density functional theory based solvers and semi-empirical methods to predict properties of
molecular and solid state materials from electronic structure, It also includes specialized solvers for using quantum mechanical derived
energies and properties in chemical reaction.
Product Description
Materials Studio Cantera [www.cantera.org] is a solver for chemical rate equations. Materials Studio Cantera provides environment for
CANTERA configuring the thermodynamic input, and for executing these calculations. Cantera Reaction Editor enables users
to introduce new species and reactions, optionally with reaction rates determined from Materials Studio DMol3, into
complex reaction schemes with existing experimentally determined thermodynamic data.
Materials Studio CASTEP Materials Studio CASTEP simulates the properties of solids, interfaces, and surfaces for a wide range of materials
including ceramics, semiconductors, and metals using a plane-wave density functional method.
Materials Studio DMol3 Materials Studio DMol3 is used to model the electronic structure and properties of organic and inorganic molecules,
molecular crystals, covalent solids, metallic solids, and infinite surfaces using DFT.
Materials Studio DFTB+ Materials Studio DFTB+ is a semi-empirical module for simulating electronic properties of materials. It uses a tight-
binding approach based on density functional theory to enable quantum mechanical accuracy on larger system sizes.
Materials Studio FlexTS The Materials Studio FlexTS module is a robust tool for identifying the minimum energy path between reactant and
products in chemical reactions (location of transition states). FlexTS requires DMol3 or DFTB+ in order to supply the
system energy of each configuration.
Materials Studio KINETIX BIOVIA Materials Studio KINETIX is a general purpose program for simulating the competing chemical and physical
adsorption, desorption and diffusion processes taking place at surfaces. This provides unique insights such as the
role of species diffusion in catalyst activity and poisoning, and surface coverage of species at up to microscales.
Materials Studio NMR Materials Studio NMR CASTEP predicts NMR chemical shifts and electric field gradient tensors from first principles.
CASTEP The method can be applied to compute the NMR shifts of both molecules and solids for a wide range of materials
including ceramics and semiconductors.
Materials Studio ONETEP Materials Studio ONETEP is a linear scaling DFT code, enabling accurate, first principles calculations on systems of
up to thousands of atoms.
Materials Studio QMERA Materials Studio QMERA employs QM/MM method combining the accuracy of a quantum with the speed of a
forcefield calculation. This approach makes it possible to perform accurate calculations on very large systems for
substantially less effort.
Materials Studio VAMP Materials Studio VAMP is capable of rapidly predicting many physical and chemical properties for molecular
organic and inorganic systems using a semi-empirical molecular orbital method. Materials Studio VAMP is an ideal
intermediate approach between forcefield and first principles methods.
CLASSICAL SIMULATION TOOLS
Materials Studio offers a very wide range of methods based on classical interactions between atoms and molecules. These include
Molecular Dynamics, Lattice Dynamics and various Monte Carlo based methods as well as the provision of forcefields.
Product Description
Materials Studio Materials Studio Adsorption Locator finds low-energy adsorption sites for molecules on both periodic and non-
Adsorption Locator periodic substrates
Materials Studio Materials Studio Amorphous Cell is a suite of computational tools that allow you to construct representative models
Amorphous Cell of complex amorphous systems and to predict key properties.
Materials Studio Blends Materials Studio Blends predicts phase diagrams and interaction parameters for liquid-liquid, polymer-polymer, and
polymeradditive mixtures, phase equilibria, and separations technology.
Materials Studio Materials Studio Conformers provides conformational search algorithms and analysis tools to characterize molecular
Conformers conformation and flexibility.
Materials Studio Materials Studio COMPASS is a forcefield which enables accurate prediction of structural, conformational, vibrational,
COMPASS and thermophysical properties for a broad range of molecules in isolation and in condensed phases, and under a
wide range of conditions of temperature and pressure. This includes access to the latest COMPASS III parameters
(https://doi.org/10.1080/08927022.2020.1808215) - highly validated and covering the widest range of materials
Materials Studio Forcite Plus offers molecular mechanics and dynamics methods for molecules and periodic systems. The tool
Forcite Plus includes a wide range of analysis features to predict mechanical properties, diffusivity, local structure, density
variations, cohesive energy density, dipole autocorrelation functional and more. Supported forcefields are Materials
Studio COMPASS, CVFF, PCFF, Dreiding, and Universal. Forcite Plus also supports execution on GPUs for accelerated
performance.
Materials Studio GULP GULP is a method for optimization, property calculation and dynamics of materials. It includes a wide range of
forcefields for metals, oxides, minerals semiconductors, as well as molecular mechanics forcefields for covalent
systems. Forcefield fitting tools are also provided to develop parameters for custom materials.
Materials Studio Sorption Sorption provides a means of predicting fundamental properties needed for investigating adsorption and separations
phenomena, such as sorption isotherms and Henry’s constants.
MESOSCALE SIMULATION TOOLS
Mesoscale methods in Materials Studio are based on two coarse-graining approaches (1) where groups of atoms are replaced by beads
or (2) where or regions of materials are represented by density fields. Using these approaches it is possible to extend the accessible
length and time scales by several orders of magnitude over classical simulations.
Product Description
Materials Studio MesoDyn MesoDyn is a classical density functional method for studying the long length- and time-scale behavior of complex
fluid systems, in particular the phase separation and structure of complex polymer systems.
Materials Studio Mesocite Mesocite is a coarse-grained simulation module for the study of materials at length scales ranging from nanometers
to micrometers and time scales from nanoseconds to microseconds. Materials Studio Mesocite can provide structural
and dynamic properties of fluids in equilibrium, under shear or in confined geometries.
Materials Studio Materials Studio PhaseField is a module providing predictions of microstructure in hard materials such as grain
PhaseField structure in complex metal alloys through simulation of solidification and grain growth. This module is run using
protocols provided by Pipeline Pilot Materials Studio Collection.
STATISTICAL TOOLS
Statistical tools are ideal to screen compounds quickly by relating molecular traits directly to experimentally observed quantities.
Product Description
Materials Studio QSAR QSAR’s (Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships) integration in Materials Studio provides access to a wide
range of descriptors and advanced analysis capabilities to help generate high quality structure activity relationships.
QSAR includes a wide range of descriptors including topological and electro-topological descriptors. Also, Jurs
descriptors enable charge distribution on solvent surfaces to be examined; VAMP Descriptors further extend
the range of 3D descriptors into those including electronic interactions; and GFA applies a sophisticated genetic
algorithm method to calculate quantitative structure-activity relationships.
Materials Studio QSAR QSAR Plus adds the power of the DMol3 Descriptors for calculating reactivity indices and accurate energies to QSAR.
Plus Also included are Neural Networks to build non-linear models and models that are more resistant to noisy datasets
than other model building methods. It can also be used with datasets that have some missing values, and can be
used to build weighted models to predict multiple physical properties.
Materials Studio Synthia Synthia calculates properties of homo- and copoplymers using advanced Quantitative Structure-Property
Relationships (QSPRs). It allows researchers to rapidly screen candidate polymers for a wide range of properties.
ANALYTICAL & CRYSTALLIZATION TOOLS
Analytical and crystallization tools are employed to investigate, predict, and modify crystal structure and crystal growth.
Product Description
Materials Studio Morphology allows you to predict crystal morphology from the atomic structure of a crystal. Morphology allows for
Morphology the prediction of crystal shape, the analysis of crystal surface stability, the development of tailor-made additives,
and the control of solvent and impurity effects.
Materials Studio Polymorph Predictor has been developed for use with fairly rigid, non-ionic or ionic molecules composed primarily of
Polymorph Predictor carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. The approach is based on the generation of possible packing arrangements
in all reasonable space groups to search for the low-lying minima in lattice energy.
Materials Studio Motif Motif analyzes connectivity information in molecular crystals, providing a qualitative and quantitative analysis
method of hydrogen bond topologies. Combined with the predictive capabilities of Polymorph, Motif allows for
categorization and statistical scoring of proposed structures. It interfaces with the Cambridge Structural Database
exploiting Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre’s Mercury functionality.
Materials Studio Reflex Reflex simulates X-ray, neutron, and electron powder diffraction patterns based on models of crystalline materials.
Reflex Plus offers a complete package for the determination of crystal structures from medium- to high-quality
powder diffraction data.
Materials Studio Reflex Reflex QPA extends the Reflex functionality for quantitative phase analysis, allowing for the determination of the
QPA relative proportion of different phases, including both inorganic as well as organic systems, in a mixture based on
powder diffraction data.
Materials Studio X-Cell X-Cell is an efficient, indexing algorithm for medium- to high-quality powder diffraction data. X-Cell uses an
extinction-specific dichotomy procedure to perform an exhaustive search of parameter space to establish a complete
list of all possible unit cell solutions.
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