What determines the color of materials?

• Which properties are accessible?

• How are optical properties computed?

This poster provides guidelines for the calculation of the color of materials within the MedeA computational environment and illustrates the steps leading from the structure of a material to the optical properties and eventually to its color with prominent examples.

MedeA allows us to understand and accurately predict the optical properties of materials.

• Convenient search and retrieval of crystal structures

• State-of-the-art quantum mechanical methods to compute the electronic structure and optical properties.

• Analysis tools provide insight