Worm's eye view: Molecular worm algorithm navigates inside chemical labyrinth
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 13:28
in Physics & Chemistry
With the passage of a molecule through the labyrinth of a chemical system being so critical to catalysis and other important chemical processes, computer simulations are frequently used to model potential molecule/labyrinth interactions. In the past, such simulations have been expensive and time-consuming to carry out, but now researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that should make future simulations easier and faster to compute, and yield much more accurate results.