LEVERHULME VISITING PROFESSOR - “The Flexibility Window in Materials”

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• Professor Michael F Thorpe – Arizona State University
• Tuesday 10 November 2009, 16:15-17:15
• Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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Many interesting phenomena occur in material structures that are poised between rigid and flexible. In this talk, we describe the modern theory of rigidity and show how it can be used to analyse networks of constraints. These results can be used as input to geometrical simulation, where the various rigid parts of a system are moved, while maintaining all the constraints; both equalities and inequalities. This approach is applied to zeolites that are important for cracking petroleum, manganites that exhibit colossal magnetoresistance, and proteins where flexibility is often associated with function.

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