Modeling Amorphous Microporous Polymers for CO2 Capture and Separations

G Kupgan, LJ Abbott, KE Hart, CM Colina - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
This review concentrates on the advances of atomistic molecular simulations to design and
evaluate amorphous microporous polymeric materials for CO2 capture and separations. A …

Multiscale microstructure and micromechanical properties of alkali-activated concrete: A critical review

W Tu, M Zhang - Cement and Concrete Composites, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of alkali-activated concrete (AAC) as a promising sustainable
concrete, it is vital to thoroughly understand the microstructural characteristics and …

Hierarchical structures of amorphous solids characterized by persistent homology

Y Hiraoka, T Nakamura, A Hirata… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
This article proposes a topological method that extracts hierarchical structures of various
amorphous solids. The method is based on the persistence diagram (PD), a mathematical …

Unraveling thermal transport correlated with atomistic structures in amorphous gallium oxide via machine learning combined with experiments

Y Liu, H Liang, L Yang, G Yang, H Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal transport properties of amorphous materials are crucial for their emerging
applications in energy and electronic devices. However, understanding and controlling …

Confining H3PO4 network in covalent organic frameworks enables proton super flow

S Tao, L Zhai, AD Dinga Wonanke, MA Addicoat… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Development of porous materials combining stability and high performance has
remained a challenge. This is particularly true for proton-transporting materials essential for …

Quantum-corrected thickness-dependent thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon predicted by machine learning molecular dynamics simulations

Y Wang, Z Fan, P Qian, MA Caro, T Ala-Nissila - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is an important thermal-management material and also serves as
an ideal playground for studying heat transport in strongly disordered materials. Theoretical …

Polymatic: a generalized simulated polymerization algorithm for amorphous polymers

LJ Abbott, KE Hart, CM Colina - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2013 - Springer
This work presents a generalized structure generation methodology for amorphous
polymers by a simulated polymerization technique and 21-step molecular dynamics …

Structure and pore size distribution in nanoporous carbon

Y Wang, Z Fan, P Qian, T Ala-Nissila… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We study the structural and mechanical properties of nanoporous (NP) carbon materials by
extensive atomistic machine-learning (ML) driven molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. To …

Molecular simulations of PIM-1-like polymers of intrinsic microporosity

GS Larsen, P Lin, KE Hart, CM Colina - Macromolecules, 2011 - ACS Publications
Polymers of intrinsic microporosity, or PIMs, are characterized by rigid and nonlinear or
nonplanar backbones that inhibit space efficient packing, thus creating microporosity. PIM-1 …

From short to medium range order in glasses and melts by diffraction and Raman spectroscopy

JWE Drewitt, L Hennet… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The structure of glasses and the melts from which they are formed is intrinsically disordered,
making their structural characterization difficult. Whilst the structure of solid minerals can be …