The electrostatic origins of specific ion effects: quantifying the Hofmeister series for anions

KP Gregory, EJ Wanless, GB Webber, VSJ Craig… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Life as we know it is dependent upon water, or more specifically salty water. Without
dissolved ions, the interactions between biological molecules are insufficiently complex to …

Towards the understanding of acetonitrile suppressing salt precipitation mechanism in a water-in-salt electrolyte for low-temperature supercapacitors

Y Sun, Y Wang, L Liu, B Liu, Q Zhang, D Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Although water-in-salt (WIS) electrolytes have significantly extended the voltage window of
aqueous batteries and supercapacitors, the inevitable precipitation of highly concentrated …

Structure and dynamics of acetonitrile: Molecular simulation and neutron scattering

SR Cohen, M Plazanet, S Rols, DJ Voneshen… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine the interplay between organization and dynamics in bulk liquid acetonitrile.
Using angularly resolved radial distribution functions, g (r, θ), derived from molecular …

Binding energies and isomer distribution of neutral acetonitrile clusters

A Malloum, JJ Fifen, J Conradie - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Structures and relative stabilities of neutral acetonitrile clusters up to decamer have been
investigated. We used the ABCluster code to thoroughly explore the potential energy …

Modeling molecular ensembles with gradient-domain machine learning force fields

AM Maldonado, I Poltavsky, V Vassilev-Galindo… - Digital …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Gradient-domain machine learning (GDML) force fields have shown excellent accuracy,
data efficiency, and applicability for molecules with hundreds of atoms, but the employed …

Manipulating molecular orientation on porous membrane surface for fast transport

S Liu, Y Wang, J Chen, C Chen, X Wu, J Zhang… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
Porous membranes with numerous pores on membrane surface and vertical inner transfer
paths display fast molecular transport. Molecules need drill into confined pores on …

Insight to the local structure of mixtures of imidazolium-based ionic liquids and molecular solvents from molecular dynamics simulations and voronoi analysis

D Dudariev, V Koverga, O Kalugin… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While the physicochemical properties as well as the NMR and vibration spectroscopic data
of the mixtures of ionic liquids (ILs) with molecular solvents undergo a drastic change …

Solvation of anthraquinone and TEMPO redox-active species in acetonitrile using a polarizable force field

R Berthin, A Serva, KG Reeves, E Heid… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Redox-active molecules are of interest in many fields, such as medicine, catalysis, or energy
storage. In particular, in supercapacitor applications, they can be grafted to ionic liquids to …

The role of resonant coupling in vibrational sum-frequency-generation spectroscopy: Liquid acetonitrile at the silica interface

AJ Souna, SR Cohen, CA Rivera, K Manfred… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vibrational sum-frequency-generation (VSFG) spectroscopy is a versatile technique for
probing molecular organization at interfaces. There is a growing recognition that dynamic …

Water-ammonia and water-acetonitrile proton transfer free energy

A Malloum, J Conradie - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2020 - Elsevier
Proton transfer at the interface of solvents are of great importance in chemistry and biology.
Despite their importance, there are very rare computational models that do describe the …