Sustainable aviation fuels for clean skies: exploring the potential and perspectives of strained hydrocarbons

F Wang, D Rijal - Energy & Fuels, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fuel is the lifeblood of the aviation industry. The pressing need to reduce carbon emissions
calls for the adoption of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) as a feasible alternative …

Electron iso-density surfaces provide a thermodynamically consistent representation of atomic and molecular surfaces

A Alibakhshi, LV Schäfer - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The surface area of atoms and molecules plays a crucial role in sha** many
physiochemical properties of materials. Despite its fundamental importance, precisely …

Reaction mechanism–explored with the unified reaction valley approach

E Kraka, JJ Antonio, M Freindorf - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the ultimate goals of chemistry is to understand and manipulate chemical reactions,
which implies the ability to monitor the reaction and its underlying mechanism at an atomic …

Advancing Sustainable Aviation Fuel Design: Machine Learning for High-Energy-Density Liquid Polycyclic Hydrocarbons

D Rijal, V Vasilyev, F Wang - Energy & Fuels, 2025 - ACS Publications
This study explores the identification of polycyclic hydrocarbons (PCHCs) with high energy
density (HED) using machine learning (ML) techniques, specifically focusing on establishing …

Dependence of Vaporization Enthalpy on Molecular Surfaces and Temperature: Thermodynamically Effective Molecular Surfaces

A Alibakhshi, B Hartke - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Approximation of molecular surfaces is of central importance in numerous scientific fields. In
this study we theoretically derive a physical model to relate phase-change thermodynamics …

Comparison of implicit and explicit solvent approaches in ab initio evaluation of thermochemistry in solution: Application in studying boron isotope fractionation in …

A Alibakhshi, J Steffen, C Pinilla… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Evaluation of thermochemistry in solution plays a key role in numerous fields. For this task,
the solvent effects are commonly included in theoretical computations based on either …

The chemical thermodynamics and diamagnetism of n-alkanes. Calculations up to n-C110H222 from quantum chemical computations and experimental values

G Audran, JP Joly, SRA Marque, D Siri… - … and Theoretical Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Free energies, enthalpies of formation, enthalpies of combustion, and entropy of n-alkanes
have been determined using quantum-chemical computations. After determination of the …

Toward Accurate Quantum Mechanical Thermochemistry:(2) Optimal Methods for Enthalpy Calculations from Comprehensive Benchmarks of 284 Model Chemistries

H Wu, AC Doner, HW Pang, WH Green - 2025 - chemrxiv.org
Accurate and efficient computations of standard enthalpies of formation (Hf) for small organic
molecules are crucial for diverse chemical engineering and scientific applications. Building …

Reconciling Experiment with Quantum Chemical Calculations: Electron Iso-Density Surfaces Represent Atomic and Molecular Surfaces

A Alibakhshi, LV Schäfer - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
The surface area of atoms and molecules plays a crucial role in sha** many
physiochemical properties of materials. Despite its fundamental importance, precisely …