A review of laser-induced crystallization from solution

V Korede, N Nagalingam, FM Penha… - Crystal Growth & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Crystallization abounds in nature and industrial practice. A plethora of indispensable
products ranging from agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals to battery materials are …

Solute precipitate nucleation: A review of theory and simulation advances

V Agarwal, B Peters - Advances in Chemical Physics: Volume …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter focuses on a frontier for molecular simulation: nucleation of solute precipitates
from solution. The chapter refers to simulations of solute precipitate nucleation with a fixed …

Non-photochemical laser-induced nucleation

AJ Alexander, PJ Camp - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Non-photochemical laser-induced nucleation (NPLIN) is the formation of a new phase from
a metastable phase by the action of light on matter. Using millijoule, nanosecond laser …

[HTML][HTML] NaCl nucleation from brine in seeded simulations: Sources of uncertainty in rate estimates

N Zimmermann, B Vorselaars, JR Espinosa… - The Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This work reexamines seeded simulation results for NaCl nucleation from a supersaturated
aqueous solution at 298.15 K and 1 bar pressure. We present a linear regression approach …

Carbohydrate–protein interactions that drive processive polysaccharide translocation in enzymes revealed from a computational study of cellobiohydrolase …

BC Knott, MF Crowley, ME Himmel… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Translocation of carbohydrate polymers through protein tunnels and clefts is a ubiquitous
biochemical phenomenon in proteins such as polysaccharide synthases, glycoside …

Reaction coordinates, one-dimensional Smoluchowski equations, and a test for dynamical self-consistency

B Peters, PG Bolhuis, RG Mullen… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a method for identifying accurate reaction coordinates among a set of trial
coordinates. The method applies to special cases where motion along the reaction …

Pharmaceutical digital design: from chemical structure through crystal polymorph to conceptual crystallization process

CL Burcham, MF Doherty, BG Peters… - Crystal Growth & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A workflow for the digital design of crystallization processes starting from the chemical
structure of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is a multistep, multidisciplinary …

[HTML][HTML] Communication: Bubbles, crystals, and laser-induced nucleation

BC Knott, JL LaRue, AM Wodtke, MF Doherty… - The Journal of chemical …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Short intense laser pulses of visible and infrared light can dramatically accelerate crystal
nucleation from transparent solutions; previous studies invoke mechanisms that are only …

Characterization of a dynamic string method for the construction of transition pathways in molecular reactions

ME Johnson, G Hummer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2012 - ACS Publications
We explore the theoretical foundation of different string methods used to find dominant
reaction pathways in high-dimensional configuration spaces. Pathways are assessed by the …

Using optical tweezing to control phase separation and nucleation near a liquid–liquid critical point

F Walton, K Wynne - Soft matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
About 20 years ago, it was shown that lasers can nucleate crystals in super-saturated
solutions and might even be able to select the polymorph that crystallises. However, no …