Important announcement

Dear visitor,

Please note that this OpenCourseWare platform will be replaced at the end of 2026 by a new platform (under the same url ocw.tudelft.nl).

Courses and their contents that are currently available the platform will partly be migrated. URL’s for this content will change and content might be unavailable for some time. In addition, some courses will not be available anymore.

If you are linking to specific courses on this platform (for instance for your students), please take timely measures to avoid problems with access. Possible actions are:

  • Download the materials to your local platform (laptop, server)
  • For educators only (including TU Delft lecturers): Contact us at ocw@tudelft.nl and inform us what course you are using in what context (institute, program, period of use, number of students). We will research (in collaboration with the authors of the course) and decide if we will migrate the course, and if yes, can supply you with a new url.

Thank you.

Home Teachers B.J. Thijsse

Barend Thijsse

Education

PhD: Leiden University (1978), experimental molecular physics

Postdoc: NIST, Washington DC (1979), critical phenomena

Guest scientist: Los Alamos National Lab (1983, 85, 87), metallic glasses

Guest scientist: Deakin University, Australia (2010), molecular dynamics

Current Specializations

Selected issues in materials properties and evolution, studied by computational modeling: Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo. Physics, mechanics, chemistry, structure, kinetics, change. Problems taken from real-life applications. Adhesion, plasticity, oxidation, phase transformations, precipitation, extreme nonequilibrium, nanomechanics. Metals, semiconductors, oxides, polymers, ionic liquids, gas flows.

Other expertise

Thin film deposition, ion-solid processes, ion-defect interactions, multilayers, amorphization, metallic glasses, structural relaxation and crystallization, reverse Monte Carlo, X-ray and neutron diffraction, critical phenomena, transport in magnetic fields, materials research in art, mathematical and numerical methods.

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