Quantitative predictions from molecular simulations using explicit or implicit interactions

D Van der Spoel, J Zhang… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… as well as on examples of solvation free energies, host–… useful when validation using
experimental data or rigorous theoretical … of explicit and implicit solvation methods for free energy …

Assessing the impact of an antisolvent-regulated ZnCl 2 water-in-salt electrolyte on solvation structure: a multiscale computational validation for aqueous Zn-ion …

A Sethi, C Rajeev, A Kumar, P Sharma… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
… on its influence on the solvation shell. Employing a comprehensive array of ex situ techniques
and theoretical calculations, we scrutinize the chemical environment of solvated species. …

Assessing solvate prediction approaches: A case of spironolactone

L Jia, M Guo, J Dai, W Chen, L Zhou… - Crystal Growth & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
… prediction currently cannot be described adequately by any single model. We have … obtained
outcomes can further be used to validate and explore other solvates, which complement the …

Modeling excited-state proton transfer to solvent: A dynamics study of a super photoacid with a hybrid implicit/explicit solvent model

U Raucci, MG Chiariello, N Rega - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… From the ground-state sampling, these solvation shells are … We validated the choice of two
different functionals for the … with an hybrid implicit/explicit model of solvation to unveil the role …

Polar soft-SAFT: theory and comparison with molecular simulations and experimental data of pure polar fluids

III Alkhatib, LMC Pereira, J Torne… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
… Notice that as the underlying molecular model is the same in polar soft-SAFT and in the …
detect any limitation the theory for the polar term may have. Once the theory is validated from the …

High-throughput screening of 2,500 ionic liquids for sustainable furfural recovery: Bridging quantum simulations, machine learning, and experimental validation

AS Darwish, T Lemaoui, H Taher, IM AlNashef… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The recovery of furfural is crucial in reducing reliance on fossil fuels. However, current recovery
techniques are inefficient and often use volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In this study…

Emerging Atomistic Modeling Methods for Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis

Z Levell, J Le, S Yu, R Wang, S Ethirajan… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
… Implicit solvation models efficiently represent the solution by simplifying … solvation models
do not provide more accurate energetics over simulations in vacuum. Moreover, the solvation

Consistent description of ion-specificity in bulk and at interfaces by solvent implicit simulations and mean-field theory

AP Dos Santos, Y Uematsu, A Rathert… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
… -dependent ion–water contribution is obtained by the Born solvation model, 52 … For this,
the chemical potential expressions from MSA theory are used, which are validated by bulk MC …

Hybrid alchemical free energy/machine-learning methodology for the computation of hydration free energies

J Scheen, W Wu, ASJS Mey, P Tosco… - … and Modeling, 2020 - ACS Publications
models derived in this study, it was observed that hyperparameters played an important role
in model validation … lowest validation error is saved together with the corresponding trained …

… CO2 Reduction on Cu(111): Competing Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction Mechanisms Revealed by Embedded Correlated Wavefunction Theory

Q Zhao, JMP Martirez, EA Carter - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
solvation, we performed the subsequent ECW calculations using the structures optimized in
vacuum given that solvation modelsvalidating, in whole or in part, prior DFT-based models