Multiscale Materials Modelling: Fundamentals and Applications

This volume provides a discussion of these topics from leading international experts and will be a useful reference for researchers working in this field.

The book presents a pedagogical approach for these state-of-the-art approaches, compiled into a single source for the first time. Ultimately, the volume aims to make valuable research tools accessible to experimentalists and theoreticians alike for any number of scientific efforts, spanning many different types of compounds and reactive conditions.

The ordering of the chapters reflects the natural flow of events in an evolving Universe: Philosophy of Science, the basis of the view that natural events have natural causes – Cosmology, the origin of everything from the Big Bang to the current state of the Universe – Geoscience, the physics and chemistry behind the evolution of the planet Earth from its birth to the present – Life Science, the molecules and mechanisms of life on Earth – Ecology, the interdependence of all components within the Ecosphere and the Universe – Information Content, emphasis on how words and phrases and framing of issues affect opinions, reliability of sources, and the limitations of knowledge.

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