Göttingen Chemists develop molecule-building software for mobile phones
New “Atomdroid app“ lets you view molecules on screen and on the go
To better understand the molecular substances involved in chemical reactions and predict their behaviour, it is very helpful to make them visible. Many technical approaches and different types of graphics software are available for this purpose. The research group working with Dr. Ricardo Mata, Junior Professor at Göttingen University, has now developed a new app for “on the road”. The Atomdroid app lets users build and, at the same time, simulate molecular modules. In addition, the app easily enables minor computations – at any time, from anywhere. This makes the application interesting for science as well as a broader business audience. The technical requirements for this application are at least a device running Android 2.2. Download is free of charge at www.uni-goettingen.de/de/070611---atomdroid.app/217659.html.
From left to right: Dr. Johannes Dieterich, Junior Professor Ricardo Mata, Jonas Feldt, Free-Floater Junior Research Group for “Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry“.
Ricardo Mata, born in 1981, studied chemistry at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, after which he went to Stuttgart University to write his doctoral thesis in the field of theoretical chemistry. In October 2009, Ricardo Mata was appointed Junior Professor at the Göttingen Institute of Physical Chemistry. His free-floater junior research group for “Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry“ receives funding within the Excellence Initiative. Prof. Mata’s research deals with the development of computational models for highly complex chemical reactions like those that take place in biochemical systems.
Contact address:
Junior Professor Ricardo Mata
Georg-August-University Göttingen
Faculty of Chemistry – Institute of Physical Chemistry
Free-floater Junior Research Group for “Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry“
Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen
Phone (0551) 39-3149, Fax (0551) 39-22202
E-Mail: rmata@gwdg.de, Internet: www.cchembio.uni-goettingen.de