- Jmol is one of the best chemical structure drawing software that is based on open-source java viewer. Jmol is an interactive and powerful web browser applet with featured for crystals, chemicals, biomolecules, and materials. This software can conveniently run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems.
- Free, open-source plug-in that runs molecular modeling software directly inside of professional 3D animation applications (hosts, i.e. Blender, Cinema4D and Maya 2011) to provide simultaneous access the capabilities of all of the systems.
- MolView is an intuitive, Open-Source web-application to make science and education more awesome!
- To visual your own pdb structure right click and chose open with (Yasara). This free program is part of a more extensive molecular modeling package. RasMol is software for looking at molecular structures. It is very fast: rotating a protein or DNA molecule shows its 3D structure.
This is a list of computer programs that are used to model nanostructures at the levels of classical mechanics[1] and quantum mechanics.
Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high quality rendering and a powerful plugin architecture. Free, Open Source: Easy to install and all source code and documentation is.
- Aionics.io[2] - a powerful platform for nanoscale modelling
- Atomistix ToolKit and Virtual NanoLab[3]
- CST Studio Suite[4]
- Deneb[5] – graphical user interface (GUI) for SIESTA, VASP, QE, etc., DFT calculation packages
- Exabyte.io[6] - a cloud-native integrated platform for nanoscale modeling, supporting simulations at multiple scales, including Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics
- JCMsuite – a finite element analysis software for simulating optical properties of nanostructures
- LAMMPS – Open source molecular dynamics code
- MAPS - Graphical user interface to build complex systems (nanostructures, polymers, surfaces...), set up and analyze ab-initio (Quantum Espresso, VASP, Abinit, NWChem...) or classical (LAMMPS, Towhee) simulations
- nanoHUB allows simulating geometry, electronic properties and electrical transport phenomena in various nanostructures
- Ninithi – carbon nanotube, graphene, and Fullerene modelling software
- Nanoengineer-1[7] – developed by company Nanorex, but the website doesn't work, may be unavailable
- NEMO 3-D[8] – enables multi-million atom electronic structure simulations in empirical tight binding; open source; an educational version is on nanoHUB and Quantum Dot Lab[9]
- Nanotube Modeler[10]
- Materials Design MedeA[11]
- Materials Square[12] - a cloud-based materials simulation web platform, provides GUI for Quantum Espresso, LAMMPS, and Open Calphad
- MBN Explorer and MBN Studio[13][14]
- MD-kMC[15]
- PARCAS[16][17][18] – Open source molecular dynamics code
- SAMSON: interactive carbon nanotube modeling[19] and simulation[20]
- TubeASP[21]
- Tubegen[22]
- Wrapping[23]
See also[edit]
References[edit]

- ^Huhtala, Maria; Kuronen, Antti; Kaski, Kimmo (2002). 'Carbon nanotube structures: molecular dynamics simulation at realistic limit'(PDF). Computer Physics Communications. 146 (1): 30. Bibcode:2002CoPhC.146...30H. doi:10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00432-0. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 June 2008.
- ^Aionics
- ^Brandbyge, Mozos, Ordejón, Taylor and Stokbro (2002). 'Density-functional method for non-equilibrium electron transport'. Physical Review B. 65 (16): 165401. arXiv:cond-mat/0110650. Bibcode:2002PhRvB..65p5401B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.65.165401.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^CST Studio Suite
- ^Deneb
- ^Exabyte
- ^Nanoengineer-1Archived 2015-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^NEMO 3-D
- ^Quantum Dot Lab
- ^Nanotube Modeler
- ^Materials Design MedeA
- ^Materials Square
- ^I.A. Solov'yov; A.V. Korol; A.V. Solov'yov (2017). Multiscale Modeling of Complex Molecular Structure and Dynamics with MBN Explorer. Springer International Publishing. ISBN978-3-319-56085-4.
- ^'MBN Explorer and MBN Studio software'.
- ^MD-kMC
- ^Nordlund, K.; Ghaly, M.; Averback, R. S.; Caturla, M.; Diaz de la Rubia, T.; Tarus, J. (1998-04-01). 'Defect production in collision cascades in elemental semiconductors and fcc metals'. Physical Review B. 57 (13): 7556–7570. Bibcode:1998PhRvB..57.7556N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.57.7556.
- ^Ghaly, Mai.; Nordlund, Kai.; Averback, R. S. (1999). 'Molecular dynamics investigations of surface damage produced by kiloelectronvolt self-bombardment of solids'. Philosophical Magazine A. 79 (4): 795–820. Bibcode:1999PMagA..79..795G. doi:10.1080/01418619908210332. ISSN0141-8610.
- ^Nordlund, K. (1995). 'Molecular dynamics simulation of ion ranges in the 1–100 keV energy range'. Computational Materials Science. 3 (4): 448–456. doi:10.1016/0927-0256(94)00085-q. ISSN0927-0256.
- ^SAMSON Element: Nanotube creator
- ^SAMSON Element: Brenner interaction model
- ^TubeASP
- ^Tubegen
- ^Wrapping

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