Room temperature ionic liquids meet biomolecules: a microscopic view of structure and dynamics

A Benedetto, P Ballone - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) and biomolecules are both paradigmatic classes of
organic molecules, each consisting of a prodigious number of distinct chemical species …

Amino acid anions in organic ionic compounds. An ab initio study of selected ion pairs

A Benedetto, E Bodo, L Gontrani… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The combination of amino acids in their deprotonated and thus anionic form with a choline
cation gives origin to a new and potentially important class of organic ionic compounds. A …

Modeling potential energy surfaces: From first-principle approaches to empirical force fields

P Ballone - Entropy, 2013 - mdpi.com
Explicit or implicit expressions of potential energy surfaces (PES) represent the basis of our
ability to simulate condensed matter systems, possibly understanding and sometimes …

DFT study of nano zinc/copper voltaic cells

J Tillman Austin, JM Seminario - Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2018 - Springer
To facilitate the development of new materials for use in batteries, it is necessary to develop
ab initio full-electron computational techniques for modeling potential new battery materials …