Mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems in ground and electronically excited states

E Brunk, U Rothlisberger - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The quantum nature of electrons and nuclei is manifested in countless biological events
including the rearrangements of electrons in biochemical reactions, electron and proton …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for the exploration of free energy landscapes: Unity in diversity and challenges ahead

F Pietrucci - Reviews in Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Computer simulations play an important role in the study of transformation processes of
condensed matter, including phase transitions, chemical reactions, and conformational …

Intrusion and extrusion of liquids in highly confining media: Bridging fundamental research to applications

A Le Donne, A Tinti, E Amayuelas… - … in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Wetting and drying of pores or cavities, made by walls that attract or repel the liquid, is a
ubiquitous process in nature and has many technological applications including, for …

Kinetics and energetics of metal halide perovskite conversion reactions at the nanoscale

N Arora, A Greco, S Meloni, A Hinderhofer… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding the kinetics and energetics of metal halide perovskite formation, particularly
from the structural point of view at the nanoscale, is important for the advancement of …

Heterogeneous bubble nucleation dynamics

M Gallo, F Magaletti, CM Casciola - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Heterogeneous nucleation is the most effective mechanism for the inception of phase
transformation. Solid walls and impurities act as a catalyst for the formation of a new …

Double life of methanol: experimental studies and nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulation of methanol effects on methane-hydrate nucleation

M Lauricella, MR Ghaani, PK Nandi… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We have investigated systematically and statistically methanol-concentration effects on
methane-hydrate nucleation using both experiment and restrained molecular-dynamics …

Turning molecular springs into nano-shock absorbers: The effect of macroscopic morphology and crystal size on the dynamic hysteresis of water intrusion–extrusion …

P Zajdel, DG Madden, R Babu, M Tortora… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Controlling the pressure at which liquids intrude (wet) and extrude (dry) a nanopore is of
paramount importance for a broad range of applications, such as energy conversion …

The impact of secondary channels on the wetting properties of interconnected hydrophobic nanopores

G Paulo, A Gubbiotti, Y Grosu, S Meloni… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Pores in nanoporous materials can be interconnected in different ways; preliminary
evidence exists that connecting channels can affect the overall hydrophobicity of the …

Tempering of Au nanoclusters: capturing the temperature-dependent competition among structural motifs

M Settem, R Ferrando, A Giacomello - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A computational approach to determine the equilibrium structures of nanoclusters in the
whole temperature range from 0 K to melting is developed. Our approach relies on Parallel …

The interplay among gas, liquid and solid interactions determines the stability of surface nanobubbles

M Tortora, S Meloni, BH Tan, A Giacomello, CD Ohl… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface nanobubbles are gaseous domains found at immersed substrates, whose
remarkable persistence is still not fully understood. Recently, it has been observed that the …