Opportunities in theoretical and computational polymeric materials and soft matter.

@article{Liu2015OpportunitiesIT,
  title={Opportunities in theoretical and computational polymeric materials and soft matter.},
  author={Andrea J. Liu and Gary S. Grest and M. Cristina Marchetti and Gregory M. Grason and Mark O. Robbins and Glenn H. Fredrickson and Michael Rubinstein and Monica Olvera de la Cruz},
  journal={Soft matter},
  year={2015},
  volume={11 12},
  pages={
          2326-32
        }
}
Soft materials are abundant in nature and ubiquitous in living systems. Elucidating their multi-faceted properties and underlying mechanisms is not only theoretically challenging and important in its own right, but also serves as the foundation for new materials and applications that will have wide-ranging impact on technology and the national economy. Recent initiatives in computation and data-driven materials discovery, such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the National Science… 
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