Axel Drefahl

Reno, Nevada Area United States

Curious scientist & cheminformatician, advancing nanoscience by tweaking molecular architectures | CurlySMILES Founder

Education

I am curious about understanding nanostructure diversity. Such combinatorial insight inspires and launches smart and flexible applications towards a sustainable future. My work comprises chemical web design and software development for virtual, high-throughput screening, combinatorial materials design and problem-driven nanostructure-search algorithms. By founding the CurlySMILES Project, I designed open-source code for molecular modeling & reviewing. The CurlySMILES language promotes cheminformatics from "molecular" to "supramolecular," "polymer" and "nanostructured." This approach envisions rational and task-oriented communication of complex nanoarchitectures. My interest in outdoor s...