All of MatDL’s services offer resources that are publicly viewable, downloadable, and reusable. It is not necessary to register as a MatDL user to perform these actions.

Please register at http://matdl.org/participate/ if you are interested in participating in MatDL as a means of:

• disseminating your research and teaching resources developed as part of government funded projects through any of MatDL services such as the MatDL Repository or Wiki
• utilizing collaborative workspaces, such as MatDL’s Wiki and MatForge, to develop and communicate research and teaching resources from your government funded work.

After you register at http://matdl.org/participate/, a MatDL representative will contact you about participating in MatDL.

MatDL Services

• MatDL Repository

  http://matdl.org/repository

  The MatDL Repository offers authoritative materials research and teaching resources including images, exercises, preprints, and interactive applets.

• MatDL Wiki

  http://matdl.org/matdlwiki

  The MatDL Wiki is a publicly accessible, expert-community-driven site for scientific communication and dissemination with emphasis on soft matter.

• MatForge

  http://matforge.org

  MatForge is a Subversion/TRAC workspace for open access, collaborative development of materials modeling and simulation codes.

• Virtual labs

  http://matdl.org/virtuallabs

  Currently available Virtual Lab lessons and applets are designed to reinforce understanding of the concepts of states, energy, degeneracy, entropy, and free energy.