Modeling molecular interactions in water: From pairwise to many-body potential energy functions

GA Cisneros, KT Wikfeldt, L Ojamäe, J Lu… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Almost 50 years have passed from the first computer simulations of water, and a large
number of molecular models have been proposed since then to elucidate the unique …

Review on the QM/MM methodologies and their application to metalloproteins

CE Tzeliou, MA Mermigki, D Tzeli - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The multiscaling quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach was
introduced in 1976, while the extensive acceptance of this methodology started in the 1990s …

Effects of interlayer confinement and hydration on capacitive charge storage in birnessite

S Boyd, K Ganeshan, WY Tsai, T Wu, S Saeed… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Nanostructured birnessite exhibits high specific capacitance and nearly ideal capacitive
behaviour in aqueous electrolytes, rendering it an important electrode material for low-cost …

[HTML][HTML] How cations affect the electric double layer and the rates and selectivity of electrocatalytic processes

MM Waegele, CM Gunathunge, J Li, X Li - The Journal of chemical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Electrocatalysis is central to the production of renewable fuels and high-value commodity
chemicals. The electrolyte and the electrode together determine the catalytic properties of …

Understanding the electric and nonelectric field components of the cation effect on the electrochemical CO reduction reaction

AS Malkani, J Li, NJ Oliveira, M He, X Chang, B Xu… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Electrolyte cations affect the activity of surface-mediated electrocatalytic reactions; however,
understanding the modes of interaction between cations and reaction intermediates remains …

Global optimization of clusters of rigid molecules using the artificial bee colony algorithm

J Zhang, M Dolg - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The global optimization of molecular clusters is an important topic encountered in many
fields of chemistry. In our previous work (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 24173), we …

Polarizable embedding QM/MM: the future gold standard for complex (bio) systems?

M Bondanza, M Nottoli, L Cupellini… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, hybrid QM/MM approaches are widely used to study (supra) molecular systems
embedded in complex biological matrices. However, in their common formulation, mutual …

Universal QM/MM approaches for general nanoscale applications

KS Csizi, M Reiher - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) hybrid models allow one to address
chemical phenomena in complex molecular environments. Whereas this modeling approach …

Ion hydration and ion pairing as probed by THz spectroscopy

G Schwaab, F Sebastiani… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ion hydration is of pivotal importance for many fundamental processes. Various
spectroscopic methods are used to study the retardation of the hydration bond dynamics in …

Highly Localized Charges of Confined Electrical Double‐Layers Inside 0.7‐nm Layered Channels

B Chen, Z Zhai, N Huang, C Zhang, S Yu… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A confined electrical double‐layer (EDL) inside nanoporous electrodes has a large
capacitance and deviates from traditional ones. Unfortunately, its capacitive mechanism is …