Microsolvation of salts in water: A comprehensive overview of the experimental and computational approaches

U Farooq, SM Bukhari, S Khan, XL Xu, HG Xu… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microsolvation is of paramount importance in various phenomena of physical chemistry and
biological systems. Structural diversity of chemical clusters in different environmental …

Enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics

YI Yang, Q Shao, J Zhang, L Yang… - The Journal of chemical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Although molecular dynamics simulations have become a useful tool in essentially all fields
of chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials science, and biology, there is still a large …

From thermodynamics to kinetics: Enhanced sampling of rare events

L Yang, CW Liu, Q Shao, J Zhang… - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Despite great advances in molecular dynamics simulations, there remain large
gaps between the simulations and experimental observations in terms of the time and length …

Ultrafast Proton Transfer and Contact Ion-Pair Formation in Formic Acid Clusters

SF Sutton, CH Rotteger, CK Jarman… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ultrafast proton transfer dynamics of homogeneous formic acid clusters (FA) n, n< 10,
are investigated with femtosecond time-resolved mass spectrometry. We monitor the proton …

Microwave-induced desalination via direct contact membrane distillation

S Roy, MS Humoud, W Intrchom… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Membrane distillation (MD) is emerging as an important desalination technology that can
operate at relatively low temperatures and can handle high salt concentrations. In this …

Effects of Na+ and Cl− on hydrated clusters by ab initio study

Y Shi, P Wang, W Li, Y Su - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A comprehensive genetic algorithm is used to perform a global search for Cl−(H 2 O) 1–9
and NaCl (H 2 O) 1–9. The structural optimization, energy calculations, vibrational …

Emergence of Solvent-Separated Na+–Cl Ion Pair in Salt Water: Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Theoretical Calculations

GL Hou, CW Liu, RZ Li, HG Xu, YQ Gao… - The journal of physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Solvation of salts in water is a fundamental physical chemical process, but the underlying
mechanism remains unclear. We investigated the contact ion pair (CIP) to solvent-separated …

Molecular dynamics study on the dissolution characteristics and cluster formation of Li2CO3 in supercritical water

T Meng, J Chen, E Jiaqiang, F Zhang, G Liao… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recycling lithium from electronic waste is the focus of current research on waste treatment
and resource utilization, and environmentally friendly supercritical water technology is an …

Integrating multiple accelerated molecular dynamics to improve accuracy of free energy calculations

X Peng, Y Zhang, Y Li, QL Liu, H Chu… - Journal of Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (aMD) is a promising enhanced sampling method to
explore the conformational space of biomolecules. However, the large statistical noise in …

A brief review of integrated tempering sampling molecular simulation

X Han, YK Lei, M Li, YQ Gao - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
With the fast development of computation techniques, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations
are becoming increasingly important in molecular studies. Numerous enhanced sampling …