Electrolyte solvation structure design for sodium ion batteries

Z Tian, Y Zou, G Liu, Y Wang, J Yin, J Ming… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sodium ion batteries (SIBs) are considered the most promising battery technology in the
post‐lithium era due to the abundant sodium reserves. In the past two decades, exploring …

In silico methods and tools for drug discovery

B Shaker, S Ahmad, J Lee, C Jung, D Na - Computers in biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past, conventional drug discovery strategies have been successfully employed to
develop new drugs, but the process from lead identification to clinical trials takes more than …

A solid-to-solid metallic conversion electrochemistry toward 91% zinc utilization for sustainable aqueous batteries

Z Hou, T Zhang, X Liu, Z Xu, J Liu, W Zhou, Y Qian… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) of metal ion (Mn+) during the repeated solid-to-
liquid (StoL) plating and liquid-to-solid (LtoS) stripping processes intensifies fatal dendrite …

Structure of SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein essential for virus assembly

Z Zhang, N Nomura, Y Muramoto, T Ekimoto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The coronavirus membrane protein (M) is the most abundant viral structural protein and
plays a central role in virus assembly and morphogenesis. However, the process of M …

Omicron: a heavily mutated SARS-CoV-2 variant exhibits stronger binding to ACE2 and potently escapes approved COVID-19 therapeutic antibodies

M Shah, HG Woo - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern “Omicron” was recently spotted in South Africa and
spread quickly around the world due to its enhanced transmissibility. The variant became …

Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D Jin, A Zalevsky… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

Bioinspired hierarchical porous membrane for efficient uranium extraction from seawater

L Yang, H Xiao, Y Qian, X Zhao, XY Kong, P Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The oceans offer a virtually infinite source of uranium and could sustain nuclear power
technology in terms of fuel supply. However, the current processes to extract uranium from …

[HTML][HTML] TURBOMOLE: Modular program suite for ab initio quantum-chemical and condensed-matter simulations

SG Balasubramani, GP Chen, S Coriani… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
TURBOMOLE is a collaborative, multi-national software development project aiming to
provide highly efficient and stable computational tools for quantum chemical simulations of …

Machine-guided path sampling to discover mechanisms of molecular self-organization

H Jung, R Covino, A Arjun, C Leitold… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular self-organization driven by concerted many-body interactions produces the
ordered structures that define both inanimate and living matter. Here we present an …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous parallelization and acceleration of molecular dynamics simulations in GROMACS

S Páll, A Zhmurov, P Bauer, M Abraham… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The introduction of accelerator devices such as graphics processing units (GPUs) has had
profound impact on molecular dynamics simulations and has enabled order-of-magnitude …