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Specialist chemical modelling software, developed at 果冻影院, is supporting innovations in technologies from telecommunications to spacecraft propulsion.

Quantemol is a 果冻影院 spin-out established in 2004 by Professor Jonathan Tennyson (果冻影院 Physics & Astronomy) and Dr Daniel Brown (果冻影院 Computer Science), which now boasts customers as far afield as Japan and the USA.听

鈥淲e provide specialist software to companies whose technologies rely on complex chemical interactions taking place under exacting conditions, for example in the manufacture of silicon chips,鈥� explains Professor Tennyson, Quantemol鈥檚 chief scientist.

鈥�鈥淲e are helping customers in industries as听diverse as medical devices and generation of cheap energy through fusion.鈥澨�

The company develops and licenses software tools that simulate what happens to atoms and molecules in their plasma phase 鈥� an unstable state that gases can reach under extreme heat, or low pressure.听听

Plasmas are used to manufacture semiconductor devices, such as silicon chips, which are widely used in the electronics industry. Improving their performance through physical experimentation takes time and is costly, so modelling the construction process using computer software helps.听听

鈥淥ur products, informed by research at 果冻影院, have been widely used by companies in the semiconductor industry.鈥� Professor Tennyson says. 鈥淎nd now we are helping customers in industries as diverse as medical devices and generation of cheap energy through fusion.鈥�

鈥淭o propel satellites and spacecraft through space, 鈥榚ngines鈥� which convert an inert gas into a plasma can be electrically controlled to produce thrust. Iodine is being explored as a commercially attractive gas to use, and its plasma properties are being modelled using the Quantemol software.

鈥淎mong other things, our software and new database help chemists and physicists create 3D pictures of newly designed molecules and use electron-molecular scattering data to predict their properties.

鈥淥ur research is helping manufacturers gain a better understanding of quantum-level processes for molecules that are difficult to isolate and study experimentally,鈥� explains Professor Tennyson.

鈥淏y reducing experimental trial and error, we are speeding up the innovation process, so that products reach the market more quickly,鈥� he adds.