NEW YORK, NY – Schrödinger Inc., a technology leader in atomic-scale modeling and physics-based chemical simulations, announced today that it is collaborating with Professor Jang-Joo Kim of Korea’s Seoul National University (서울대학교), to advance the development and design of organic electronic materials. Professor Kim is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Director of the Organic Photonics Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at SNU. He is widely recognized as one of the leading researchers in the development of materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLED).

Schrödinger’s Materials Science Suite features unparalleled automated workflows and efficient and accurate property predictions for organic electronic materials by harnessing quantum mechanics and GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics. Schrödinger will work closely with the Organic Photonics Laboratory to leverage the software capabilities to analyze and optimize OLED materials for synthesis and incorporation into devices leading to next-generation lighting and display applications.

“Schrödinger’s Materials Science Suite allows the analysis of isolated systems and materials in condensed phase, which allows us to consider candidate systems in a more complete way,” says Professor Kim. Dr. Mathew D. Halls, Schrödinger’s Vice President of Materials Science, adds “Our tools have come together to provide a serious advantage to researchers working on developing new organic electronic solutions. We are excited to work with Professor Kim to bring simulation together with experiment, advancing this important area of technology.”

J.J. Kim and co-workers recently reported a study successfully using the Schrödinger Materials Science Suite to examine factors affecting the external quantum efficiency of OLED emitting materials. It has been published in Nature Communications 8, Article number: 791 (2017). The article is available online.