Scientists Model 'Lord of the Nanorings'

PhysOrg, 22 Mar 2005 It's possible that no one gets more use out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's PrairieFire supercomputer, than Xiao Cheng Zeng and his collaborators. In the past five years, they have used PrairieFire to model a list of previously unknown nanoscale substances and structures, from two-dimensional ice that shrinks when it freezes to silicon nanotubes that behave like metals and four new kinds of one-dimensional ice crystals. Read the article