Melting and freezing of metal clusters

A Aguado, MF Jarrold - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Recent developments allow heat capacities to be measured for size-selected clusters
isolated in the gas phase. For clusters with tens to hundreds of atoms, the heat capacities …

Molecular dynamic simulation of aluminum–water reactions using the ReaxFF reactive force field

MF Russo Jr, R Li, M Mench, ACT Van Duin - International Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this study we employed the ReaxFF reactive force field to examine the dynamics
associated with the dissociation of adsorbed water molecules on an aluminum nanocluster …

Molecular dynamics simulations of the effects of vacancies on nickel self-diffusion, oxygen diffusion and oxidation initiation in nickel, using the ReaxFF reactive force …

C Zou, YK Shin, ACT Van Duin, H Fang, ZK Liu - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
A ReaxFF reactive force field was developed for the nickel–oxygen system. The quantum
mechanical (QM) data used to derive the force field parameters included the equations of …

ReaxFF reactive molecular dynamics simulation of the hydration of Cu-SSZ-13 zeolite and the formation of Cu dimers

GM Psofogiannakis, JF McCleerey… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A new Cu/Si/Al/O/H reactive ReaxFF force field was developed and used in molecular
dynamics simulations of the hydration of Cu-exchanged SSZ-13 catalyst. It was observed …

Atomistic mechanisms of water vapor–induced surface passivation

X Chen, W Shan, D Wu, SB Patel, N Cai, C Li, S Ye… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The microscopic mechanisms underpinning the spontaneous surface passivation of metals
from ubiquitous water have remained largely elusive. Here, using in situ environmental …

Neural network potential-energy surfaces for atomistic simulations

J Behler - Chemical Modelling: Applications and Theory, 2010 - books.google.com
Studying chemical reactions in computer simulations requires a reliable description of the
atomic interactions. While for systems of moderate size precise electronic structure …

Structures and stabilities of Aln+, Aln, and Aln−(n= 13–34) clusters

A Aguado, JM López - The Journal of chemical physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Putative global minima of neutral (Al n) and singly charged (⁠ Al n+ and Al n−⁠) aluminum
clusters with n= 13–34 have been located from first-principles density functional theory …

Development and validation of a ReaxFF reactive force field for Fe/Al/Ni alloys: Molecular dynamics study of elastic constants, diffusion, and segregation

YK Shin, H Kwak, C Zou, AV Vasenkov… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We have developed a ReaxFF force field for Fe/Al/Ni binary alloys based on quantum
mechanical (QM) calculations. In addition to the various bulk phases of the binary alloys, the …

Reactive molecular simulations of protonation of water clusters and depletion of acidity in H-ZSM-5 zeolite

KL Joshi, G Psofogiannakis, ACT Van Duin… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Using reactive molecular dynamics (RMD), we present an atomistic insight into the
interaction between water molecules and acidic centers of H-ZSM-5 zeolite. The reactive …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics study on the effect of surface ionization on the interfacial heat transfer between silica and water

H Sun, D Surblys, S Cheng, T Ohara - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the thermal transport across the solid–liquid interface is crucial for the
advancement of modern technology, with particular emphasis on the silica–water interface …