Search Results - "Hassanali, Ali"
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Charge transfer as a ubiquitous mechanism in determining the negative charge at hydrophobic interfaces
Published in Nature communications (14-02-2020)“…The origin of the apparent negative charge at hydrophobic–water interfaces has fueled debates in the physical chemistry community for decades. The most common…”
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Probing Defects and Correlations in the Hydrogen-Bond Network of ab Initio Water
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (12-04-2016)“…The hydrogen-bond network of water is characterized by the presence of coordination defects relative to the ideal tetrahedral network of ice, whose…”
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Anomalous water diffusion in salt solutions
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-03-2014)“…The dynamics of water exhibits anomalous behavior in the presence of different electrolytes. Recent experiments [Kim JS, Wu Z, Morrow AR, Yethiraj A, Yethiraj…”
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Spontaneously Forming Dendritic Voids in Liquid Water Can Host Small Polymers
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (19-09-2019)“…Some liquids are characterized by the presence of large voids with dendritic shapes and for this reason are dubbed transiently porous. By using a battery of…”
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Hydrogen Bonds and Life in the Universe
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (03-01-2018)“…The scientific community is allocating more and more resources to space missions and astronomical observations dedicated to the search for life beyond Earth…”
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Aqueous solutions: state of the art in ab initio molecular dynamics
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (13-03-2014)“…The simulation of liquids by ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) has been a subject of intense activity over the last two decades. The significant increase in…”
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The Joint Solvation Interaction
Published in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) (01-09-2024)“…The solvent-induced interactions (SIIs) between flexible solutes can be separated into two distinct components: the solvation-induced conformational effect and…”
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A Data Science Approach to Understanding Water Networks Around Biomolecules: The Case of Tri-Alanine in Liquid Water
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (16-08-2018)“…Herein, we use recently developed data science algorithms to illustrate the complexity of the water network surrounding the hydrated peptide tri-alanine…”
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Water Determines the Structure and Dynamics of Proteins
Published in Chemical reviews (13-07-2016)“…Water is an essential participant in the stability, structure, dynamics, and function of proteins and other biomolecules. Thermodynamically, changes in the…”
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DNA Binding to the Silica Surface
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (27-08-2015)“…We investigate the DNA–silica binding mechanism using molecular dynamics simulations. This system is of technological importance, and also of interest to…”
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Proton transfer through the water gossamer
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-08-2013)“…The diffusion of protons through water is understood within the framework of the Grotthuss mechanism, which requires that they undergo structural diffusion in…”
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Quantum mechanical effects in zwitterionic amino acids: The case of proline, hydroxyproline, and alanine in water
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (14-06-2018)“…In this work, we use ab initio molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate the electronic properties of three hydrated zwitterionic amino acids, namely…”
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Role of Quantum Vibrations on the Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of 9‑Methylguanine
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (05-11-2015)“…In this work, we report theoretical predictions of the UV-absorption spectra of 9-methylguanine using time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT)…”
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Charge transfer across C-H⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bonds stabilizes oil droplets in water
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (10-12-2021)“…The hydrophobic–water interface plays a key role in biological interactions. However, both the hydrophobic–water interfacial molecular structure and the origin…”
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The collective burst mechanism of angular jumps in liquid water
Published in Nature communications (11-03-2023)“…Understanding the microscopic origins of collective reorientational motions in aqueous systems requires techniques that allow us to reach beyond our chemical…”
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Understanding Förster Energy Transfer through the Lens of Molecular Dynamics
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (08-12-2020)“…A multiscale approach to the dynamics of resonant energy transfer (RET) is presented, combining DFT and TD-DFT results on the energy donor ( ) and acceptor ( )…”
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The Role of Quantum Effects on Structural and Electronic Fluctuations in Neat and Charged Water
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (20-11-2014)“…In this work, we revisit the role of nuclear quantum effects on the structural and electronic properties of the excess proton in bulk liquid water using…”
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On the recombination of hydronium and hydroxide ions in water
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-12-2011)“…The recombination of hydronium and hydroxide ions following water ionization is one of the most fundamental processes determining the pH of water. The…”
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Learning the Hydrophobic, Hydrophilic, and Aromatic Character of Amino Acids from Thermal Relaxation and Interfacial Thermal Conductance
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (27-01-2022)“…In this study, the thermal relaxation of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids in water and in the protein lysozyme is investigated using transient…”
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Ab Initio Quality NMR Parameters in Solid-State Materials Using a High-Dimensional Neural-Network Representation
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (09-02-2016)“…Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful experimental tools to probe the local atomic order of a wide range of solid-state…”
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