Crown Ether-Assisted Colloidal ZnO Window Layer Engineering for Efficient Kesterite (Ag,Cu)2ZnSn(S,Se)4 Solar Cells

L Lou, J Wang, K Yin, F Meng, X Xu, J Zhou… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The nature of interfaces between each functional layer of Cu2ZnSnS x Se4–x (CZTSSe)
solar cells is the key issue impacting cell performance, typically its influence on carrier …

The Recent Advances of Polymer–POSS Nanocomposites With Low Dielectric Constant

L Miao, L Zhan, S Liao, Y Li, T He, S Yin… - Macromolecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides a comprehensive overview of the preparation methods for polyhedral
oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) monomers and polymer/POSS nanocomposites. It …

Augmenting basin-hopping with techniques from unsupervised machine learning: Applications in spectroscopy and ion mobility

C Zhou, C Ieritano, WS Hopkins - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Evolutionary algorithms such as the basin-hopping (BH) algorithm have proven to be useful
for difficult non-linear optimization problems with multiple modalities and variables …

Uncovering the Pathway of Serine Octamer Magic Number Cluster Formation during Electrospray Ionization: Experiments and Simulations

V Alinezhad, YK Ng, S Mehta… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electrospray ionization (ESI) of serine (Ser) solution generates Ser8H+ as an abundant
magic number cluster. ESI clustering of most other solutes yields nonspecific …

Using Density Functional Theory for Testing the Robustness of Mobile-Proton Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Electrosprayed Ions: Structural Implications for …

CC Moore, VN Staroverov… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Current experiments only provide low-resolution information on gaseous protein ions
generated by electrospray ionization (ESI). Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can yield …

Chiral discrimination between tyrosine and β-cyclodextrin revealed by cryogenic ion trap infrared spectroscopy

K Hirata, Y Mori, S Ishiuchi, M Fujii… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Complexes of permethylated β-cyclodextrin (β-MCD) with the two enantiomers of protonated
tyrosine (L-and D-TyrH+) are studied by cryogenic ion trap infrared photo-dissociation …

Imparting low dielectric constant and high modulus to polyimides via synergy between coupled silsesquioxanes and crown ethers

C Shi, S Liu, Y Li, Y Yuan, J Zhao, Y Fu - Composites Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Our pilot research revealed that the dielectric constant of polyimide (PI) can be reduced and
the modulus can be improved by assembling necklace-like interlocking complexes with …

Gas-phase conformations of small polyprolines and their fragment ions by IRMPD spectroscopy

JK Martens, J Grzetic, G Berden, J Oomens - International Journal of Mass …, 2015 - Elsevier
Infrared multiple-photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy has been used to examine the
gas-phase conformations of a series of short protonated polyproline ions (Pro 3–Pro 6), their …

Structures of biomolecular ions in the gas phase probed by infrared light sources

CN Stedwell, JF Galindo, AE Roitberg… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy of biomolecular ions combines mass spectrometry's high
sensitivity and ability to analyze complex mixtures with the enhanced structural information …

Structural connectivity of 18‐Crown‐6/H+/L‐tryptophan noncovalent complexes in gas phase and in solution: Delineating host–guest–solvent interactions in solution …

YH Oh, HB Oh, S Lee - International Journal of Quantum …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the structural correlation of noncovalent crown ether/H+/L‐tryptophan
(CR/TrpH+) host–guest complexes in the solution phase with those in the gas phase …