Highly sensitive and selective uranium detection in natural water systems using a luminescent mesoporous metal–organic framework equipped with abundant Lewis …

W Liu, X Dai, Z Bai, Y Wang, Z Yang… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Uranium is not only a strategic resource for the nuclear industry but also a global
contaminant with high toxicity. Although several strategies have been established for …

Polarizable atomic multipole-based AMOEBA force field for proteins

Y Shi, Z Xia, J Zhang, R Best, C Wu… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Development of the AMOEBA (atomic multipole optimized energetics for biomolecular
simulation) force field for proteins is presented. The current version (AMOEBA-2013) utilizes …

Multistep desolvation as a fundamental principle governing peptide self-assembly through liquid–liquid phase separation

C Yuan, R Xing, J Cui, W Fan, J Li, X Yan - CCS Chemistry, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
Biomolecular self-assembly based on peptides and proteins is a general phenomenon
encountered in natural and synthetic systems. Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is …

Polarizable force field for peptides and proteins based on the classical drude oscillator

PEM Lopes, J Huang, J Shim, Y Luo, H Li… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Presented is a polarizable force field based on a classical Drude oscillator framework,
currently implemented in the programs CHARMM and NAMD, for modeling and molecular …

Accuracy of quantum chemical methods for large noncovalent complexes

R Sedlak, T Janowski, M Pitonak, J Rezac… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We evaluate the performance of the most widely used wave function, density functional
theory, and semiempirical methods for the description of noncovalent interactions in a set of …

Parameterization of the DFTB3 method for Br, Ca, Cl, F, I, K, and Na in organic and biological systems

M Kubillus, T Kubar, M Gaus, J Rezac… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We present an extension to the recent 3OB parametrization of the Density Functional Tight
Binding Model DFTB31, 2 for biological and organic systems. Parameters for the halogens …

autodE: automated calculation of reaction energy profiles—application to organic and organometallic reactions

TA Young, JJ Silcock, AJ Sterling… - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Calculating reaction energy profiles to aid in mechanistic elucidation has long been the
domain of the expert computational chemist. Here, we introduce autodE (https://github …

Exceptional perrhenate/pertechnetate uptake and subsequent immobilization by a low-dimensional cationic coordination polymer: overcoming the hofmeister bias …

L Zhu, C Xiao, X Dai, J Li, D Gui, D Sheng… - … & Technology Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report one of the most efficient scavenger materials, a cationic crystalline coordination
polymer SBN for trapping ReO4–, a surrogate for 99TcO4–, as an anionic radioactive …

On the nature of the halogen bond

C Wang, D Danovich, Y Mo, S Shaik - Journal of chemical theory …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The wide-ranging applications of the halogen bond (X-bond), notably in self-assembling
materials and medicinal chemistry, have placed this weak intermolecular interaction in a …

Tuning of a A–A–D–A–A-type small molecule with benzodithiophene as a central core with efficient photovoltaic properties for organic solar cells

U Azeem, RA Khera, A Naveed, M Imran, MA Assiri… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
With the aim of upgrading the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs), four
novel non-fullerene, A1–A2–D–A2–A1-type small molecules were designed that are …