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The structural stability, electronic structure, and bonding characteristics of the silver-doped boron cluster B18Ag2 were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) combined with global optimization techniques. Basin-hopping…
We report the first measurement of size-resolved photoelectron angular distributions for the valence orbitals of water clusters with up to 20 molecules. A systematic decrease of the photoelectron anisotropy is found for clusters with up to…
In this work, we assess the accuracy of dielectric-dependent hybrid density functionals and many-body perturbation theory methods for the calculation of electron affinities of small water clusters, including hydrogen-bonded water dimer and…
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A new kinetic instability which results in formation of charge density waves is proposed. The instability is of a purely classical nature. A spatial period of arising space-charge and field configuration is inversely proportional to…
The hydrophobic effect (HE) is commonly associated with the demixing of oil and water at ambient conditions and plays the leading role in determining the structure and stability of biomolecular assembly in aqueous solutions. On the…
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Dynamic structuring of water is a key player in a large class of processes underlying biochemical and technological developments today, the latter often involving electric fields. However, the anisotropic coupling between the water…
We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems for the case when normal electron collisions prevail over the other scattering processes and the "hydrodynamic flow" regime is realized. The hydrodynamic equations for the…
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Water mediates a broad range of chemical reactions, including proton transfer, bond rearrangement, and conventional radical processes, defining a continuously expanding repertoire of intrinsic reactivity. However, roaming, a fundamental…
We consider spin-vorticity coupling - the generation of spin polarization by vorticity - in viscous two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling. We first derive hydrodynamic equations for spin and momentum densities in which…
Water is a complex structured liquid of hydrogen-bonded molecules that displays a surprising array of unusual properties, also known as water anomalies, the most famous being the density maximum at about $4^\circ$C. The origin of these…
In this work, we report an interesting observation of partial ionic bonding due to charge transfer in homogeneous sodium clusters. The charge transfer causes the electronic charge to accumulate on the surface, and the resulting charges on…
We report new accurate mesasurements of the mobility of excess electrons in high density Helium gas in extended ranges of temperature $[(26\leq T\leq 77) K ]$ and density $[ (0.05\leq N\leq 12.0) {atoms} \cdot {nm}^{-3}]$ to ascertain the…
Results of systematic molecular dynamics studies of ethanol-water mixtures, over the entire concentration range, were reported previously to agree with experimental X-ray diffraction data. These simulated systems are analyzed in this work…
The existence of shell structure and the accompanying high degeneracy of electronic levels leads to the possibility of strong superconducting pairing in metallic nanoclusters with N~100-1000 delocalized electrons. The most favorable cases…
This report documents microstructural features of CH3(CH2-O-CH2)mCH3 dissolved in water and n-hexane for m = 11, 21, and 31. Probability densities for end-to-end distance, and the associated potential-of-mean-force (pmf), are more revealing…