Molecular dynamics simulations of ionic liquids and electrolytes using polarizable force fields

D Bedrov, JP Piquemal, O Borodin… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Many applications in chemistry, biology, and energy storage/conversion research rely on
molecular simulations to provide fundamental insight into structural and transport properties …

Quantum chemical studies of light harvesting

C Curutchet, B Mennucci - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The design of optimal light-harvesting (supra) molecular systems and materials is one of the
most challenging frontiers of science. Theoretical methods and computational models play a …

Free charge photogeneration in a single component high photovoltaic efficiency organic semiconductor

MB Price, PA Hume, A Ilina, I Wagner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) promise cheap and flexible solar energy. Whereas light
generates free charges in silicon photovoltaics, excitons are normally formed in organic …

Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

S Karuthedath, J Gorenflot, Y Firdaus, N Chaturvedi… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) both the electron affinity (EA) and
ionization energy (IE) offsets at the donor–acceptor interface should equally control exciton …

Synergistic sorbent separation for one-step ethylene purification from a four-component mixture

KJ Chen, DG Madden, S Mukherjee, T Pham… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Purification of ethylene (C2H4), the largest-volume product of the chemical industry,
currently involves energy-intensive processes such as chemisorption (CO2 removal) …

Robust ultramicroporous metal–organic frameworks with benchmark affinity for acetylene

YL Peng, T Pham, P Li, T Wang, Y Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Highly selective separation and/or purification of acetylene from various gas mixtures is a
relevant and difficult challenge that currently requires costly and energy‐intensive …

Benchmark C2H2/CO2 and CO2/C2H2 separation by two closely related hybrid ultramicroporous materials

KJ Chen, HS Scott, DG Madden, T Pham, A Kumar… - Chem, 2016 - cell.com
The removal of CO 2 impurities from C 2 H 2-containing gas mixtures is an important step in
purifying C 2 H 2, a feedstock chemical used in the production of several commodity …

A stable metal–organic framework featuring a local buffer environment for carbon dioxide fixation

H He, Q Sun, W Gao, JA Perman, F Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A majority of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) fail to preserve their physical and chemical
properties after exposure to acidic, neutral, or alkaline aqueous solutions, therefore limiting …

Current status of the AMOEBA polarizable force field

JW Ponder, C Wu, P Ren, VS Pande… - The journal of …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Molecular force fields have been approaching a generational transition over the past several
years, moving away from well-established and well-tuned, but intrinsically limited, fixed point …

A window to trap-free charge transport in organic semiconducting thin films

NB Kotadiya, A Mondal, PWM Blom, D Andrienko… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Organic semiconductors, which serve as the active component in devices, such as solar
cells, light-emitting diodes and field-effect transistors, often exhibit highly unipolar charge …