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Preface

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DL POLY 3 was developed at the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, Daresbury Labo-
ratory, with support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Natural
Environment Research Council. The package is the property of the Council for the Central Labo-
ratory of the Research Councils of the United Kingdom.

Advice, assistance and encouragement in the development of DL POLY 3 has been given by many
people. We gratefully acknowledge the following:

T.R. Forester, Ian Bush, M.F. Guest, M. Leslie, R.J. Allan, D. Tildesley, M. Pinches, D. Ra-
paport, the UK's Materials Consortium under C.R.A. Catlow and the NERC e-Science project
"Computational Chemistry in the Environment" under M. Dove.

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