Chemical Physics
The development of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has enabled ultrafast X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments, which are capable of resolving electronic/vibrational transitions and structural changes in molecules, or capturing molecular…
This study aims to reveal the important role and the respective rate rules of H atom abstractions by NO2 for better understanding NOX hydrocarbon interactions. To this end, H atom abstractions from C2 to C5 alkanes and alkenes 15 species by…
A nonlinear phase-field model is developed to simulate corrosion damage. The motion of the electrode$-$ electrolyte interface follows the usual kinetic rate theory for chemical reactions based on the Butler-Volmer equation. The model links…
1-Alkanol + alkanenitrile systems have been studied by means of the DISQUAC, ERAS and UNIFAC (Dortmund) models. DISQUAC and ERAS parameters for the alkanol/nitrile interactions are reported. DISQUAC describes a whole set of thermodynamic…
A multiscale model based on the coupling of the multiconfigurational self-consistent field (MCSCF) method and the classical atomistic polarizable Fluctuating Charges (FQ) force field is presented. The resulting MCSCF/FQ approach is…
In this study we construct a data-driven model describing Lithium plating in a battery cell, which is a key process contributing to degradation of such cells. Starting from the fundamental Doyle-Fuller-Newman (DFN) model, we use asymptotic…
Soft X-ray irradiation of molecules causes electronic core-level vacancies through photoelectronemission. In light elements, such as C, N, or O, which are abundant in the biosphere, these vacancies predominantly decay by Auger emission,…
Identification of the breaking point for the chemical bond is essential for our understanding of chemical reactivity. The current consensus is that a point of maximal electron delocalization along the bonding axis separates the different…
We present receptor hopping and receptor swapping free energy estimation protocols based on the Alchemical Transfer Method (ATM) to model the binding selectivity of a set of ligands to two arbitrary receptors. The receptor hopping protocol,…
The widespread application of machine learning (ML) to the chemical sciences is making it very important to understand how the ML models learn to correlate chemical structures with their properties, and what can be done to improve the…
Developing an efficient method to accelerate the speed of molecular dynamics is a central theme in the field of molecular simulation. One category among the methods are collective-variable-based methods, which rely on predefined collective…
We investigate the potential performance improvements of double-hybrid density functionals by replacing the standard opposite-spin-scaled MP2 (SOS-MP2) with the modified opposite-spin-scaled MP2 (MOS-MP2) in the nonlocal correlation…
Charge transfer is a fundamental phenomenon in biology and chemistry, and involves the movement of charge through a system driven by nuclear dynamics. Because of the involvement of nuclear motion, it is generally assumed that charge…
The systematic underestimation of band gaps is one of the most fundamental challenges in semilocal density functional theory (DFT). In addition to hindering the application of DFT to predicting electronic properties, the band gap problem is…
The experimentally-observed non-trivial electronic structure of the Cr$_2$ dimer has made the calculation of its potential energy curve a theoretical challenge in the last decades. By matching the perturbation theory at small internuclear…
Machine learning (ML) models for molecules and materials commonly rely on a decomposition of the global target quantity into local, atom-centered contributions. This approach is convenient from a computational perspective, enabling…
We have calculated the electron impact partial and total ionization cross sections of important gaseous targets, such as Trifluoromethane (CHF$_3$), 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane $(\mathrm{C_2H_2F_4})$ or R134a, 1,1,1-Trifluoroethane…
Machine learning potentials offer a revolutionary, unifying framework for molecular simulations across scales, from quantum chemistry to coarse-grained models. Here, I explore their potential to dramatically improve accuracy and scalability…
PACKMOL is a widely utilized molecular modeling tool within the computational chemistry community. However, its perceivable advantages have been impeded by the long-standing lack of a robust open-source graphical user interface (GUI) that…
Rare transition events in meta-stable systems under noisy fluctuations are crucial for many non-equilibrium physical and chemical processes. In these processes, the primary contributions to reactive flux are predominantly near the…