From NWChem to NWChemEx: Evolving with the computational chemistry landscape

K Kowalski, R Bair, NP Bauman, JS Boschen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Since the advent of the first computers, chemists have been at the forefront of using
computers to understand and solve complex chemical problems. As the hardware and …

Unusual properties of water at hydrophilic/hydrophobic interfaces

VM Gun'Ko, VV Turov, VM Bogatyrev, VI Zarko… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2005 - Elsevier
The behaviour of water at mosaic hydrophilic/hydrophobic surfaces of different silicas and in
biosystems (biomacromolecules, yeast cells, wheat seeds, bone and muscular tissues) was …

NWChem: Past, present, and future

E Apra, EJ Bylaska, WA De Jong, N Govind… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Specialized computational chemistry packages have permanently reshaped the landscape
of chemical and materials science by providing tools to support and guide experimental …

ESPResSo—an extensible simulation package for research on soft matter systems

HJ Limbach, A Arnold, BA Mann, C Holm - Computer Physics …, 2006 - Elsevier
We describe a new program package that is designed to perform numerical Molecular
Dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations for a broad class of soft matter systems in …

Predicting Solvent Stability in Aprotic Electrolyte Li–Air Batteries: Nucleophilic Substitution by the Superoxide Anion Radical (O2•–)

VS Bryantsev, V Giordani, W Walker… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
There is increasing evidence that cyclic and linear carbonates, commonly used solvents in
Li ion battery electrolytes, are unstable in the presence of superoxide and thus are not …

Introducing ONETEP: Linear-scaling density functional simulations on parallel computers

CK Skylaris, PD Haynes, AA Mostofi… - The Journal of chemical …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The equations of quantum mechanics govern the correlated motions of electrons and nuclei
and are thus essential in any theoretical description of the chemical or physical properties of …

An Efficient a Posteriori Treatment for Dispersion Interaction in Density-Functional-Based Tight Binding

L Zhechkov, T Heine, S Patchkovskii… - Journal of Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The performance of density functional theory (DFT)(VWN-LDA, PBE-GGA, and B3LYP hybrid
functionals), density-functional-based tight binding (DFTB), and ab initio methods [HF, MP2 …

Interaction of substituted aromatic compounds with graphene

A Rochefort, JD Wuest - Langmuir, 2009 - ACS Publications
We have modeled the adsorption of various substituted derivatives of benzene on a
graphene sheet, using a first-principles density functional theory− local density …

Evidence for C Cl/C Br⋅⋅⋅ π Interactions as an Important Contribution to Protein–Ligand Binding Affinity

H Matter, M Nazaré, S Güssregen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Attractive chlorine: Noncovalent interactions between chlorine or bromine atoms and
aromatic rings in proteins open up a new method for the manipulation of molecular …

Computational study of the mechanisms of superoxide-induced decomposition of organic carbonate-based electrolytes

VS Bryantsev, M Blanco - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - ACS Publications
There is increasing experimental evidence that organic carbonate-based electrolytes are
incompatible with the discharge products of the nonaqueous lithium− air (oxygen) battery …