ABSTRACT

This editorial discusses the broad range and scope of this special issue of Soft Materials. All articles deal with the challenge to model and/or simulate various types of systems of soft matter. Depending on the microscopic insight deemed to understand macroscopic properties, different tailor-made approaches are needed to reliably explain such properties. In the past decades, this led to many approaches and techniques to cope with the limitations of atomistic modeling, due to limited computing resources to researchers. As an inventor of several such methods and techniques, this issue is honoring Florian Müller-Plathe, on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

摘要

这篇社论讨论了本期《软材料》的广泛范围。所有文章都涉及对各种类型的软物质系统进行建模和/或模拟的挑战。根据被认为理解宏观性质的微观见解，需要采用不同的量身定制的方法来可靠地解释此类性质。在过去的几十年中，由于研究人员的计算资源有限，导致了许多方法和技术来应对原子建模的局限性。作为几种此类方法和技术的发明者，本期纪念弗洛里安·穆勒·普拉特（FlorianMüller-Plathe）60岁生日。