HspB8 prevents aberrant phase transitions of FUS by chaperoning its folded RNA-binding domain

EE Boczek, J Fürsch, ML Niedermeier, L Jawerth… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Aberrant liquid-to-solid phase transitions of biomolecular condensates have been linked to
various neurodegenerative diseases. However, the underlying molecular interactions that …

Code interoperability extends the scope of quantum simulations

M Govoni, J Whitmer, J de Pablo, F Gygi… - npj Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
The functionality of many materials is critically dependent on the integration of dissimilar
components and on the interfaces that arise between them. The description of such …

A pragmatic protocol for determining charge transfer states of molecules at metal surfaces by constrained density functional theory

G Meng, B Jiang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Electron transfer from a metal surface to a molecule is very important at the gas–surface
interface, which can lead to electron-mediated energy transfer during molecular scattering …

A dynamically weighted constrained complete active space ansatz for constructing multiple potential energy surfaces within the Anderson-Holstein model

J Chen, JE Subotnik - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We derive and implement the necessary equations for solving a dynamically weighted, state-
averaged constrained CASSCF (2, 2) wave function describing a molecule on a metal …

Nonadiabatic Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer at a Graphitic Surface Immobilized Cobalt Porphyrin

P Hutchison, AV Soudackov, S Hammes-Schiffer - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Immobilized molecular electrocatalysts can exhibit altered proton-coupled electron transfer
(PCET) chemistry compared to their nonimmobilized counterparts. Recent experiments …

Implementation and validation of constrained density functional theory forces in the CP2K package

CS Ahart, KM Rosso, J Blumberger - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Constrained density functional theory (CDFT) is a powerful tool for the prediction of electron
transfer parameters in condensed phase simulations at a reasonable computational cost. In …

Active spaces and non-orthogonal configuration interaction approaches for investigating molecules on metal surfaces

J Chen, W Dou, J Subotnik - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We test a set of multiconfigurational wavefunction approaches for calculating the ground
state electron population for a two-site Anderson model representing a molecule on a metal …

Nonadiabatic Potential Energy Surfaces for a Molecule on a Surface as Found by Constrained Complete Active Space Theory

J Chen, J Subotnik - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
In order to study electron-transfer mediated chemical processes on a metal surface, one
requires not one but two potential energy surfaces (one ground state and one excited state) …

Improved projection-operator diabatization schemes for the calculation of electronic coupling values

S Ghan, C Kunkel, K Reuter… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We address a long-standing ambiguity in the DFT-based projection-operator diabatization
method for charge transfer couplings in donor–acceptor systems. It has long been known …

Revealing charge-transfer dynamics at electrified sulfur cathodes using constrained density functional theory

Y Aierken, A Agrawal, M Sun, M Melander… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To understand and control the behavior of electrochemical systems, including batteries and
electrocatalysts, we seek molecular-level details of the charge transfer mechanisms at …