Recent advances in solvation modeling applications: Chemical properties, reaction mechanisms and catalysis

L Xu, ML Coote - Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we review recent studies in the field of computational solvation. Methods at
different scales from ab initio to force field calculations with both implicit solvent and explicit …

Simulating core electron binding energies of halogenated species adsorbed on ice surfaces and in solution via relativistic quantum embedding calculations

RA Opoku, C Toubin, ASP Gomes - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we investigate the effects of the environment on the X-ray photoelectron spectra
of hydrogen chloride and chloride ions adsorbed on ice surfaces, as well as of chloride ions …

Absolute ion hydration free energy scale and the surface potential of water via quantum simulation

Y Shi, TL Beck - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
With a goal of determining an absolute free energy scale for ion hydration, quasi-chemical
theory and ab initio quantum mechanical simulations are employed to obtain an accurate …

Transport models of ammonium nitrogen in wastewater from rare earth smelteries by reverse osmosis membranes

S Gui, Z Mai, J Fu, Y Wei, J Wan - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wastewater from rare earth smelteries contains large amounts of ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-
N), which causes severe environmental problems. In this contribution, the desalination …

NaCl salts in finite aqueous environments at the fine particle marine aerosol scale

V Vallet, J Coles, F Réal, C Houriez… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigated isolated sodium/chloride aqueous droplets at the microscopic level, which
comprise about 5k to 1M water molecules and whose salt concentrations are 0.2 M (brackish …

Size-dependent acidity of aqueous nano-aerosols

W Song, S Guo, H Li - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the accurate acidity of nano-aerosols is important for the research on
atmospheric chemistry. Herein, we propose the contributions from both the aerosol size and …

The multi-scale polarizable pseudo-particle solvent coarse-grained approach: From NaCl salt solutions to polyelectrolyte hydration

M Masella, F Léonforté - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We discuss key parameters that affect the reliability of hybrid simulations in the aqueous
phase based on an efficient multi-scale coarse-grained polarizable pseudo-particle …

A thermodynamic view on the microsolvation of ions by rare gas: Application to Li+ with argon

MN Guimarães, MM de Almeida… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a thermodynamic perspective of the microsolvation of ions by rare gas atoms,
which is based on parallel tempering Monte Carlo (PTMC) simulations. This allows the …

Hybrid polarizable simulations of a conventional hydrophobic polyelectrolyte. Toward a theoretical tool for green science innovation

M Masella, A Crudu, F Léonforté - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Hybrid modeling approaches based on all-atom force fields to handle a solute and coarse-
grained models to account for the solvent are promising numerical tools that can be used to …

Modeling polyelectrolyte hydration from a multi scale polarizable pseudo particle solvent coarse grained approach

M Masella, F Léonforté - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17580, 2023 - arxiv.org
We investigate the reliability of simulations of polyelectrolyte systems in aqueous
environments, simulations that are performed using an efficient multi scale coarse grained …