Mechanically Bonded Materials (Stoddart)

Fraser Stoddart and I have interacted closely since 2004 (monthly and sometimes weekly when he was still at UCLA) and we have published no fewer than 46 papers together. This has been a great collaboration because Fraser relies on advice from computations for nearly all of the revolutionary materials utilizing the mechanical bond that he has been developing. We have used a variety of theory and methods: quantum mechanics (QM), molecular dynamics (MD), Monte Carlo, or QM tunneling, which we have extended to problems necessary to deal with the complex mechanically constrained systems Stoddart has been designing, synthesizing, and characterizing.