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The University Centre for Mass and Thermal Transport in Engineering Materials focuses on the development of new models and innovative computational methods for predicting the mass and thermal transport behaviour of alloys, ceramics and composites for advanced engineering technologies. Principal engineering technologies addressed include advanced fuel cells (solid electrolytes), solar hydrogen production (tailored band-gap photo-voltaic materials) and petrochemical structural materials (metal-dusting resistant materials). The modelling makes use of atomistic and phenomenological types of computer simulation (first principles methods, molecular mechanics, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, finite element analysis and hybrids of these methods) as well as analytical development.