The interplay of solvation and polarization effects on ion pairing in nanoconfined electrolytes

KD Fong, B Sumic, N O'Neill, C Schran, CP Grey… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
The nature of ion–ion interactions in electrolytes confined to nanoscale pores has important
implications for energy storage and separation technologies. However, the physical effects …

How accurate are simulations and experiments for the lattice energies of molecular crystals?

F Della Pia, A Zen, D Alfè, A Michaelides - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Molecular crystals play a central role in a wide range of scientific fields, including
pharmaceuticals and organic semiconductor devices. However, they are challenging …

PW-SMD: A Plane-Wave Implicit Solvation Model Based on Electron Density for Surface Chemistry and Crystalline Systems in Aqueous Solution

Y Wang, C Teng, E Begin, M Bussiere… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electron density-based implicit solvation models are a class of techniques for quantifying
solvation effects and calculating free energies of solvation without an explicit representation …

Dynamic Ion Correlations and Ion-Pair Lifetimes in Aqueous Alkali Metal Chloride Electrolytes

GR Elliott, EJ Wanless, GB Webber… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electrolytes are central to many technological applications, as well as life itself. The behavior
and properties of electrolytes are often described in terms of ion pairs, whereby ions …

Modelling ligand exchange in metal complexes with machine learning potentials

V Juraskova, G Tusha, H Zhang, LV Schäfer… - Faraday …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal ions are irreplaceable in many areas of chemistry, including (bio) catalysis, self-
assembly and charge transfer processes. Yet, modelling their structural and dynamic …