Understanding nanocellulose–water interactions: Turning a detriment into an asset

L Solhi, V Guccini, K Heise, I Solala… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Modern technology has enabled the isolation of nanocellulose from plant-based fibers, and
the current trend focuses on utilizing nanocellulose in a broad range of sustainable …

Electron-correlated fragment-molecular-orbital calculations for biomolecular and nano systems

S Tanaka, Y Mochizuki, Y Komeiji, Y Okiyama… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent developments in the fragment molecular orbital (FMO) method for theoretical
formulation, implementation, and application to nano and biomolecular systems are …

The fragment molecular orbital method: theoretical development, implementation in GAMESS, and applications

DG Fedorov - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The physical picture of the fragment molecular orbital (FMO) method is described on the
basis of a many‐body expansion with terms describing the polarization of isolated …

Hydrogen bonds and twist in cellulose microfibrils

SK Kannam, DP Oehme, MS Doblin, MJ Gidley… - Carbohydrate …, 2017 - Elsevier
There is increasing experimental and computational evidence that cellulose microfibrils can
exist in a stable twisted form. In this study, atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations …

Three-dimensional structures of carbohydrates and where to find them

SI Scherbinina, PV Toukach - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Analysis and systematization of accumulated data on carbohydrate structural diversity is a
subject of great interest for structural glycobiology. Despite being a challenging task …

The molecular origins of twist in cellulose I-beta

L Bu, ME Himmel, MF Crowley - Carbohydrate polymers, 2015 - Elsevier
The observation of twisted microfibrils in cellulose Iβ both in imaging and in molecular
simulations has been reported and studied for years. This article reports a computational …

Subsystem analysis for the fragment molecular orbital method and its application to protein–ligand binding in solution

DG Fedorov, K Kitaura - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2016 - ACS Publications
A subsystem analysis is derived incorporating interfragment interactions into the fragment
properties, such as energies or charges. The relative stabilities of three alanine isomers, the …

Hybrid MPI-OpenMP parallelism in the ONETEP linear-scaling electronic structure code: Application to the delamination of cellulose nanofibrils

KA Wilkinson, NDM Hine… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We present a hybrid MPI-OpenMP implementation of Linear-Scaling Density Functional
Theory within the ONETEP code. We illustrate its performance on a range of high …

A comprehensive analysis in terms of molecule-intrinsic quasi-atomic orbitals. IV. Bond breaking and bond forming along the dissociative reaction path of dioxetane

AC West, MW Schmidt, MS Gordon… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The quantitative analysis of molecular density matrices in terms of oriented quasi-atomic
orbitals (QUAOs) is shown to yield detailed conceptual insight into the dissociation of …

Third-order density-functional tight-binding combined with the fragment molecular orbital method

Y Nishimoto, DG Fedorov, S Irle - Chemical Physics Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
We developed the energy and its analytic gradient for the self-consistent-charge density-
functional tight-binding method with the third-order expansion (DFTB3) combined with the …