Search Results - "Singh, Rakesh S"
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Nucleation of a Stable Solid from Melt in the Presence of Multiple Metastable Intermediate Phases: Wetting, Ostwald’s Step Rule, and Vanishing Polymorphs
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (24-10-2013)“…In many systems, nucleation of a stable solid may occur in the presence of other (often more than one) metastable phases. These may be polymorphic solids or…”
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Molecular modeling and structural characterization of a high glycine-tyrosine hair keratin associated protein
Published in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (2017)“…High glycine-tyrosine (HGT) proteins are an important constituent of the keratin associated proteins (KAPs) present in human hair. The glassy state physics of…”
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Effects of disulfide bridges and backbone connectivity on water sorption by protein matrices
Published in Scientific reports (11-08-2017)“…Understanding the water sorption behavior of protein powders is important in applications such as the preservation of protein-based pharmaceuticals. Most…”
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Anomalous Vapor and Ice Nucleation in Water at Negative Pressures: A Classical Density Functional Theory Study
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (13-04-2023)“…In contrast to the abundance of work on the anomalous behavior of water, the relationship between the water’s thermodynamic anomalies and kinetics of phase…”
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Anomalous scattering in supercooled ST2 water
Published in Molecular physics (18-08-2018)“…Large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of systems containing up to 256,000 molecules were performed to investigate the scattering behaviour of the ST2…”
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Thermodynamic Anomalies in Stretched Water
Published in Langmuir (24-10-2017)“…Via molecular dynamics simulations of the TIP4P/2005 water model, we study liquid water’s anomalous behavior at large negative pressure produced through…”
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Density and bond-orientational relaxations in supercooled water
Published in Molecular physics (16-09-2016)“…Recent computational studies have reported evidence of a metastable liquid-liquid phase transition (LLPT) in molecular models of water under deeply supercooled…”
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Microscopic Origin of Hysteresis in Water Sorption on Protein Matrices
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (16-03-2017)“…Despite the importance of water sorption isotherms for a fundamental understanding of protein–water interactions, the microscopic origin of hysteresis between…”
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Modeling soft core-shell colloids using stochastic hard collision dynamics
Published in Chemical physics letters (16-09-2018)“…[Display omitted] •We characterize the structure and thermodynamics of hard-core soft-shell (HCSS) colloids.•We extended earlier work to effectively model HCSS…”
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Manifestations of the possible thermodynamic origin of water's anomalies in non-classical vapor nucleation at negative pressures
Published 08-11-2024“…Over the years, various scenarios -- such as the stability-limit conjecture (SLC), two critical point (TCP), critical point-free (CPF), and singularity-free…”
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Effects of quenched disorder on the kinetics and pathways of phase transition in a soft colloidal system
Published 13-09-2024“…Although impurities are unavoidable in real-world and experimental systems, most numerical studies on nucleation focus on pure (impurity-free) systems. As a…”
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Anomalous Vapor and Ice Nucleation in Water at Negative Pressures: A Classical Density Functional Theory Study
Published 14-12-2022“…In contrast to the abundance of work on the anomalous behavior of water, the relationship between the water's thermodynamic anomalies and kinetics of phase…”
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Dynamic and thermodynamic anomalies of water at low temperatures: from bulk water to reverse micelles and DNA hydration layer
Published in Current science (Bangalore) (10-10-2011)“…Liquid water is known to exhibit remarkable thermodynamic and dynamic anomalies, ranging from solvation properties in supercritical state to an apparent…”
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Microscopic pathways of transition from low-density to high-density amorphous phase of water
Published 26-02-2024“…Much attention has been devoted to understanding the microscopic pathways of phase transition between two equilibrium condensed phases (such as liquids and…”
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Manifestations of the structural origin of supercooled water's anomalies in the heterogeneous relaxation on the potential energy landscape
Published 30-08-2022“…Liquid water is well-known for its intriguing thermodynamic anomalies in the supercooled state. The phenomenological two-state models - based on the assumption…”
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Polymorph selection during crystallization of a model colloidal fluid with a free energy landscape containing a metastable solid
Published 28-08-2018“…Phys. Rev. E 98, 032606 (2018) The free energy landscape responsible for crystallization can be complex even for relatively simple systems like hard sphere and…”
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Correlation between thermodynamic anomalies and pathways of ice nucleation in supercooled water
Published 08-01-2014“…The well-known classical nucleation theory (CNT) for the free energy barrier towards formation of a nucleus of critical size of the new stable phase within the…”
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Orientational order as the origin of the long-range hydrophobic effect
Published 06-04-2015“…The long range attractive force between two hydrophobic surfaces immersed in water is observed to decrease exponentially with their separation -- this…”
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Solid-solid collapse transition in a two dimensional model molecular system
Published 11-04-2013“…Solid-solid collapse transition in open framework structures is ubiquitous in nature. The real difficulty in understanding detailed microscopic aspects of such…”
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Notes on the Hybrid Monte Carlo Method
Published 21-12-2017“…We discuss the detailed balance condition for hybrid Monte Carlo method…”
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