The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) guided preparation of Ag nanostructures on Ti substrate for sensitive SERS detection of small molecules

G Sun, C Fu, M Dong, G Jin, Q Song - Spectrochimica Acta Part A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) has become a powerful analytical
technique for highly sensitive detection of target molecules. Its performance, however, is …

Nucleation rate analysis of methane hydrate from molecular dynamics simulations

D Yuhara, BC Barnes, D Suh, BC Knott… - Faraday …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Clathrate hydrates are solid crystalline structures most commonly formed from solutions that
have nucleated to form a mixed solid composed of water and gas. Understanding the …

Crystal growth kinetics in BaS semiconductor: Molecular dynamics simulation and theoretical calculations

L Separdar, JP Rino, ED Zanotto - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the liquid-solid phase transition mechanisms and dynamics is of boundless
scientific significance, and holds enormous technological relevance in designing mono or …

Numerical investigation of effects of particle properties on nucleation process in a sulfuric acid–water vapor mixture: Homogeneous versus heterogeneous

X Wu, Z Tang, S Lyu, Q Song, Y Duan, Z Yang - Chemical Physics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
The pollution caused by sulfuric acid mist emissions has attracted attention due to demand
of low emissions. In this work, molecular dynamics simulation was used to investigate effects …

Disjoining pressure and structure of a fluid confined between nanoscale surfaces

IV Kopanichuk, AA Vanin, EN Brodskaya - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulation method has been used to
estimate the disjoining pressure and to obtain the distribution of the density of the adsorbed …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleus-size pinning for determination of nucleation free-energy barriers and nucleus geometry

AK Sharma, FA Escobedo - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Classical Nucleation Theory (CNT) has recently been used in conjunction with a seeding
approach to simulate nucleation phenomena at small-to-moderate supersaturation …

Molecular dynamics study of water molecules nucleation for fine particle removal: Effects of wettability and aggregation modes and comparison with experiment

J Xu, Z Zhang, L Lv, Y Zhang, Y Xie, H Chu - Particuology, 2024 - Elsevier
Water vapor nucleation on particle's surface plays an important role in dust removal, cloud
formation, and particle measurement. However, the selectivity of nucleation sites and the …

A molecular dynamics study of water vapor nucleation in the presence of ions

C Zhang, Y Wang, Y Liu, Y Yang - Chemical Engineering Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Ions make a significant contribution to the nucleation dynamics of aqueous aerosol particles,
but the understanding about microscopic mechanism is insufficient. In this paper, molecular …

Numerical investigation of effects of curvature and wettability of particles on heterogeneous condensation

Z Wang, F Qin, X Luo - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The incipient process of water vapor condensation around an insoluble nanoscale particle is
studied by a molecular dynamics method, and the emphasis is placed on the effects of …

The embedded-seed-method molecular dynamics simulation of the crystallization of Al and the influence of the artificial initial stress

T Zhou, Y Wu, J You - Journal of Crystal Growth, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, the embedded-seed-method molecular dynamics simulation is prevailing on
diverse issues of the solidification process of diverse materials. But the key universal issue …