Highly reversible aqueous zinc batteries enabled by Zincophilic–Zincophobic interfacial layers and interrupted hydrogen‐bond electrolytes

L Cao, D Li, FA Soto, V Ponce, B Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous Zn batteries promise high energy density but suffer from Zn dendritic growth and
poor low‐temperature performance. Here, we overcome both challenges by using an …

The proton in biochemistry: impacts on bioenergetics, biophysical chemistry, and bioorganic chemistry

TP Silverstein - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The proton is the smallest atomic particle, and in aqueous solution it is the smallest hydrated
ion, having only two waters in its first hydration shell. In this article we survey key aspects of …

Terahertz spectroscopy as a method for investigation of hydration shells of biomolecules

NV Penkov - Biophysical Reviews, 2023 - Springer
The hydration of biomolecules is one of the fundamental processes underlying the
construction of living matter. The formation of the native conformation of most biomolecules …

Slush-like polar structures in single-crystal relaxors

H Takenaka, I Grinberg, S Liu, AM Rappe - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Despite more than 50 years of investigation, it is still unclear how the underlying structure of
relaxor ferroelectrics gives rise to their defining properties, such as ultrahigh piezoelectric …

Li+ Solvation in Pure, Binary, and Ternary Mixtures of Organic Carbonate Electrolytes

I Skarmoutsos, V Ponnuchamy, V Vetere… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and quantum chemical density functional
theory (DFT) calculations have been employed in the present study to investigate the …

Characterization of the hydrogen-bond network of water around sucrose and trehalose: Microwave and terahertz spectroscopic study

K Shiraga, A Adachi, M Nakamura, T Tajima… - The Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Modification of the water hydrogen bond network imposed by disaccharides is known to
serve as a bioprotective agent in living organisms, though its comprehensive understanding …

The temperature-dependent structure, hydrogen bonding and other related dynamic properties of the standard TIP3P and CHARMM-modified TIP3P water models

EES Ong, JL Liow - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2019 - Elsevier
It was found in the literature that the use of CHARMM-modified TIP3P (mTIP3P) water model
in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations resulted in a less realistic peptide folding, as …

First-principles simulations of liquid water using a dielectric-dependent hybrid functional

AP Gaiduk, J Gustafson, F Gygi… - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We carried out first-principles simulations of liquid water under ambient conditions using a
dielectric-dependent hybrid functional, where the fraction of exact exchange is set equal to …

Local structural fluctuations, hydrogen bonding and structural transitions in supercritical water

I Skarmoutsos, E Guardia, J Samios - The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2017 - Elsevier
The contribution of hydrogen bonding interactions to the formation of local density
inhomogeneities in supercritical water at near-critical conditions has been extensively …

Reconsideration of the relaxational and vibrational line shapes of liquid water based on ultrabroadband dielectric spectroscopy

K Shiraga, K Tanaka, T Arikawa, S Saito… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The Debye relaxation function is widely used to describe the large dielectric dispersion of
ambient water around 20 GHz. However, from a theoretical point of view, this function is …