Using metadynamics to explore complex free-energy landscapes

G Bussi, A Laio - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Metadynamics is an atomistic simulation technique that allows, within the same framework,
acceleration of rare events and estimation of the free energy of complex molecular systems …

Nanoconfinement and mass transport in metal–organic frameworks

CH Sharp, BC Bukowski, H Li, EM Johnson… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The ubiquity of metal–organic frameworks in recent scientific literature underscores their
highly versatile nature. MOFs have been developed for use in a wide array of applications …

Hydrotropic solubilization of zinc acetates for sustainable aqueous battery electrolytes

D Dong, T Wang, Y Sun, J Fan, YC Lu - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Among the more sustainable battery chemistries, the aqueous zinc system is receiving
renewed interest. To accelerate the practical applications of this promising technology, an …

Oxygen evolution reaction over catalytic single-site Co in a well-defined brookite TiO2 nanorod surface

C Liu, J Qian, Y Ye, H Zhou, CJ Sun, C Sheehan… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are paramount to the
development of electrochemical devices for clean energy and fuel conversion. However, the …

Dynamic multinuclear sites formed by mobilized copper ions in NOx selective catalytic reduction

C Paolucci, I Khurana, AA Parekh, S Li, AJ Shih, H Li… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Copper ions exchanged into zeolites are active for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of
nitrogen oxides (NO x) with ammonia (NH3), but the low-temperature rate dependence on …

Full atomistic reaction mechanism with kinetics for CO reduction on Cu (100) from ab initio molecular dynamics free-energy calculations at 298 K

T Cheng, H Xiao… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A critical step toward the rational design of new catalysts that achieve selective and efficient
reduction of CO2 to specific hydrocarbons and oxygenates is to determine the detailed …

Reaction Mechanisms for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to CO and Formate on the Cu(100) Surface at 298 K from Quantum Mechanics Free Energy …

T Cheng, H Xiao, WA Goddard III - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Copper is the only elemental metal that reduces a significant fraction of CO2 to
hydrocarbons and alcohols, but the atomistic reaction mechanism that controls the product …

Using collective variables to drive molecular dynamics simulations

G Fiorin, ML Klein, J Hénin - Molecular Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
A software framework is introduced that facilitates the application of biasing algorithms to
collective variables of the type commonly employed to drive massively parallel molecular …

Aqueous dye-sensitized solar cells

F Bella, C Gerbaldi, C Barolo, M Grätzel - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are the most extensively investigated
systems for the conversion of solar energy into electricity, particularly for implementation in …

Metadynamics

A Barducci, M Bonomi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Metadynamics is a powerful technique for enhancing sampling in molecular dynamics
simulations and reconstructing the free‐energy surface as a function of few selected …