A Portal Concept for the Integration and Fusion of Distributed Knowledge in the Nanotechnology

When it comes to nanotechnology, it is all about enormous complexity and heterogeneous materials and sizes. From TV screens, thermometers, sensors, solid oxide fuel cells, nanotechnology modeling and simulation tools and nanotechnology knowledge portals are helping researchers bring new and improved products to market by visualizing, predicting and controlling the behaviour of materials at the nanoscale and share, distribute and fusion distributed nanoscale knowledge through portal access. The nanoscale technology theme of this proposal is the development of new multiscale mathematical methods for the calculation and optimization of properties of heterogeneous materials and their use in the design of a new generation of novel materials systems with interest to DOE applications. Particular attention will receive transport properties of porous media and solid oxide fuel cells