Metadynamics: a method to simulate rare events and reconstruct the free energy in biophysics, chemistry and material science

A Laio, FL Gervasio - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Metadynamics is a powerful algorithm that can be used both for reconstructing the free
energy and for accelerating rare events in systems described by complex Hamiltonians, at …

Formation and loss of metastable brucite: does Fe (II)-bearing brucite support microbial activity in serpentinizing ecosystems?

AS Templeton, ET Ellison - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ultramafic rocks undergo successive stages of hydration and oxidation during water/rock
interaction, giving rise to secondary minerals such as brucite, serpentine, magnetite and the …

Efficient reconstruction of complex free energy landscapes by multiple walkers metadynamics

P Raiteri, A Laio, FL Gervasio, C Micheletti… - The journal of …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Recently, we have introduced a new method, metadynamics, which is able to sample rarely
occurring transitions and to reconstruct the free energy as a function of several variables …

Assessing the accuracy of metadynamics

A Laio, A Rodriguez-Fortea, FL Gervasio… - The journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Metadynamics is a powerful technique that has been successfully exploited to explore the
multidimensional free energy surface of complex polyatomic systems and predict transition …

Cation do** approach for nanotubular hydrosilicates curvature control and related applications

AA Krasilin, EK Khrapova, TP Maslennikova - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The past two decades have been marked by an increased interest in the synthesis and the
properties of geoinspired hydrosilicate nanoscrolls and nanotubes. The present review …

Carbonation, cementation, and stabilization of ultramafic mine tailings

IM Power, C Paulo, H Long, JA Lockhart… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tailings dam failures can cause devastation to the environment, loss of human life, and
require expensive remediation. A promising approach for de-risking brucite-bearing …

Adaptively biased molecular dynamics for free energy calculations

V Babin, C Roland, C Sagui - The Journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We present an adaptively biased molecular dynamics (ABMD) method for the computation of
the free energy surface of a reaction coordinate using nonequilibrium dynamics. The ABMD …

Kinetics studies on wet and dry gas–solid carbonation of MgO and Mg (OH) 2 for CO 2 sequestration

J Fagerlund, J Highfield, R Zevenhoven - RSC advances, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Mineral carbonation is a carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) route that warrants
further investigation. Although most of the CCS research to date has been concerned with …

Fourier-Transform Infrared Analysis of the Dehydration Mechanism of Mg(OH)2 and Chemically Modified Mg(OH)2

R Kurosawa, M Takeuchi, J Ryu - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mg (OH) 2 is a medium-temperature chemical heat storage material. The addition of LiCl
and/or LiOH to Mg (OH) 2 has been reported to promote the dehydration of Mg (OH) 2 …

Brucite [Mg (OH2)] carbonation in wet supercritical CO2: An in situ high pressure X-ray diffraction study

HT Schaef, CF Windisch Jr, BP McGrail… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
Understanding mechanisms and kinetics of mineral carbonation reactions relevant to
sequestering carbon dioxide as a supercritical fluid (scCO2) in geologic formations is crucial …