A strategy of development and selection of absorbent for efficient CO2 capture: an overview of properties and performance

SC Tiwari, A Bhardwaj, KDP Nigam, KK Pant… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
CO 2 absorption using benign cost-effective absorbents is an essential unit operation not
only in the process industry for CO 2 separation and recovery from industrial off-gas streams …

Divide-and-conquer linear-scaling quantum chemical computations

H Nakai, M Kobayashi, T Yoshikawa… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fragmentation and embedding schemes are of great importance when applying quantum-
chemical calculations to more complex and attractive targets. The divide-and-conquer (DC) …

Tracking the delocalized proton in concerted proton transfer in bulk water

S Yan, B Wang, H Lin - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A solvated proton in water is often characterized as a charge or structural defect, and it is
important to track its evolution on-the-fly in certain dynamics simulations. Previously, we …

Structural and dynamic properties of solvated hydroxide and hydronium ions in water from ab initio modeling

R Liu, C Zhang, X Liang, J Liu, X Wu… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Predicting the asymmetric structure and dynamics of solvated hydroxide and hydronium in
water from ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) has been a challenging task. The difficulty …

Nanochannel‐Based Ion Transport and Its Application in Osmotic Energy Conversion: A Critical Review

Q Wang, X Zhang, H Zhu, X Zhang… - Advanced Physics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanochannel‐based ion transport is an important field of study in various disciplines,
including physics, chemistry, energy, materials science, biology, and earth science. The …

Accurate diffusion coefficients of the excess proton and hydroxide in water via extensive ab initio simulations with different schemes

D Muñoz-Santiburcio - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Despite its simple molecular formula, obtaining an accurate in silico description of water is
far from straightforward. Many of its very peculiar properties are quite elusive, and in …

Hydroxide ion carrier for proton pumps in bacteriorhodopsin: Primary proton transfer

J Ono, M Imai, Y Nishimura, H Nakai - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) is a model protein for light-driven proton pumps, where the vectorial
active proton transport results in light-energy conversion. To clarify the microscopic …

Exploring covalent docking mechanisms of boron-based inhibitors to class A, C and D β-lactamases using time-dependent hybrid QM/MM simulations

Ł Charzewski, KA Krzyśko, B Lesyng - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recently, molecular covalent docking has been extensively developed to design new
classes of inhibitors that form chemical bonds with their biological targets. This strategy for …

Correlated proton dynamics in hydrogen bonding networks: the benchmark case of 3-hydroxyglutaric acid

B Martínez-Haya, JR Avilés-Moreno… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Proton and hydrogen-bonded networks sustain a broad range of structural and charge
transfer processes in supramolecular materials. The modelling of proton dynamics is …

Weighted histogram analysis method for multiple short-time metadynamics simulations

J Ono, H Nakai - Chemical Physics Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
An efficient calculation scheme for obtaining free energy surfaces (FESs) in chemical or
biological systems from multiple metadynamics (metaD) simulations was developed. In this …