Publications
2024
Liquid-Liquid Transition in a Machine-Learned Coarse grained Water Model
D. Dhabal, R. Kumar, and V. Molinero
ChemRxiv (2024)
Multi-Stage Condensation Pathway Minimizes Hysteresis in Water Harvesting with Large-Pore
Metal-Organic Frameworks
A. Zaragoza, M. Factorovich, and V. Molinero
Chemistry of Materials https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02113 (2024)
2023
Functional Aggregation of Cell-Free Proteins Enables Fungal Ice Nucleation
R. Schwidetzky, I. de Almeida Ribeiro, N. Bothen, A. Backes, A.L. DeVries, M. Bonn,
J. Fröhlich-Nowoisky, V. Molinero, and K. Meister
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (46) e2303243120 (2023)
Nanobubble Stability and Formation on Solid–Liquid Interfaces in Open Environments
E.D. Gadea, V. Molinero, and D.A. Scherlis
Nano Letters (15), 7206-7212 (2023)
Multi-reward reinforcement learning based development of inter-atomic potential models
for silica
A. Koneru, H. Chan, S. Manna, T.D. Loeffler, D. Dhabal, A.A. Bertolazzo, V. Molinero,
and S.K. Sankaranarayanan
npj Computational Materials 9 (1), Article number: 125 (2023)
Kinetics and Mechanisms of Pressure-Induced Ice Amorphization and Polyamorphic Transitions
in a Machine-Learned Coarse-Grained Water Model
D. Dhabal and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. B, 127, 12, 2847–2862 (2023)
Post-Hydration Crosslinking of Ion Exchange Membranes to Control Water Content
A. Barnett, J.J. Karnes, A.L. Clemens, J.S. Oakdale, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 11, 5613–5621 (2023)
CEGANN: Crystal Edge Graph Attention Neural Network for multiscale classification
of materials environment
S. Banik, D. Dhabal, H. Chan, S. Manna, M. Cherukara, V. Molinero, and S.K. Sankaranarayanan
npj Computational Materials 9, 23 (2023)
Lichen species across Alaska produce highly active and stable ice nucleators
R.J. Eufemio, I. de Almeida Ribeiro, V. Molinero, M. Bonn, T.L. Sformo, G.A. Laursen,
J. Fröhlich-Nowoisky, and K. Meister
Biogeosciences, 20, 2805–2812 (2023)
2022
Oriented attachment kinetics for rod-like particles at a flat surface: Buffon’s needle
at the nanoscale
K. Kamat, P.M. Naullage, V. Molinero, and B. Peters
J. Chem. Phys. 157, 214113 (2022)
HUB: A method to model and extract the distribution of ice nucleation temperatures
from drop-freezing experiments
I. de Almeida Ribeiro, V. Molinero, and K. Meister
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 5623–5639 (2022)
Stability and Metastability of Liquid water in a Machine-learned Coarse-grained Model
with Short-range Interactions
D. Dhabal, S.K. Sankaranarayanan, and V. Molinero
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 126 (47), 9881-9892 (2022)
CEGAN: Crystal Edge Graph Attention Network for multiscale classification of materials
environment
S. Banik, D. Dhabal, H. Chan, S. Manna, M. Cherukara, V. Molinero, and S.K. Sankaranarayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.10168 (2022)
Exponential Water Uptake in Ionomer Membranes Results from Polymer Plasticization
A. Barnett, J. Karnes, J. Lu, D. Major, J. Oakdale, K. Grew, J. McClure, and V. Molinero
Macromolecules (2022), 55, 15, 6762–6774
AlphaFold2 models indicate that protein sequence determines both structure and dynamics
HB. Guo, A. Perminov, S. Bekele, G. Kedziora, S. Farajollahi, V. Varaljay, K. Hinkle,
V. Molinero, K. Meister, C. Hung, P. Dennis, N. Kelley-Loughnane, and R. Berry
Scientific Reports, volume 12, Article number: 10696 (2022)
What Is the Smallest Zeolite That Could Be Synthesized?
D. Dhabal, A. A. Bertolazzo, and V. Molinero
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202205095 (2022)
Unstable and Metastable Mesophases Can Assist in the Nucleation of Porous Crystals
A. A. Bertolazzo, D. Dhabal, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C (2022), 126, 7, 3776–3786
Is It Possible to Follow the Structural Evolution of Water in “No-Man’s Land” Using
a Pulsed-Heating Procedure?
I. de Almeida Ribeiro, M. de Koning, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2022), 13, 4, 1085–1089
Polymorph Selection in Zeolite Synthesis Occurs after Nucleation
A.A. Bertolazzo, D. Dhabal, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2022), 13, 4, 977–981
2021
Diffusion Attachment Model for Long Helical Antifreeze Proteins to Ice
K. Kamat, P.M. Naullage, V. Molinero, and B. Peters
Biomacromolecules (2022), 23, 2, 513–519
Width and Clustering of Ion-Conducting Channels in Fuel Cell Membranes Are Insensitive to
the Length of Ion Tethers
A. Barnett, J. Lu, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C (2021), 125, 50, 27693–27702
Mechanism of Facilitation of Ion Mobility in Low-Water-Content Fuel Cell Membranes
A. Barnett, J. Lu, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C (2021), 125, 50, 27703–27713
Coarse-Grained Model for the Hydrothermal Synthesis of Zeolites
D. Dhabal, A.A. Bertolazzo, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C (2021), 125, 48, 26857–26868
Is Ice Nucleation by Organic Crystals Nonclassical? An Assessment of the Monolayer
Hypothesis of Ice Nucleation
A. K. Metya, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2021), 143, 12, 4607-4624
2020
Computationally Efficient Approach for the Identification of Ice-Binding Surfaces
and How They Bind Ice
A. K. Metya, P. M. Naullage, and V. Molinero
J. Chem. Phys. 153 (2020) 174106
Electrochemically Generated Nanobubbles: Invariance of the Current with Respect to
Electrode Size and Potential
E. D. Gadea, Y. A. Perez Sirkin, V. Molinero, and D. A. Scherlis
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11 (2020) 6573–6579
Slow Propagation of Ice Binding Limits the Ice-Recrystallization Inhibition Efficiency
of PVA and Other Flexible Polymers
P. M. Naullage, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142 (2020) 4356–4366
2019
The End of Ice I
D. R. Moberg, D. Becker, C. W. Dierking, F. Zurheide, B. Bandow, U. Buck, A. Hudait,
V. Molinero, F. Paesani, and T. Zeuch
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 119 (2019) 24413-24419
Can Clathrates Heterogeneously Nucleate Ice?
M. H. Factorovich, P. M. Naullage, and V. Molinero
J. Chem. Phys. 151 (2019) 114707
Mechanisms of Nucleation and Stationary States of Electrochemically Generated Nanobubbles
Y. A. Perez Sirkin, E. D. Gadea, D. A. Scherlis, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141 (2019) 10801-10811
Hydrogen-Bonding and Hydrophobic Groups Contribute Equally to the Binding of Hyperactive
Antifreeze and Ice Nucleating Proteins to Ice
A. Hudait, Y. Qiu, N. Odendahl, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141 (2019) 7887-7898
How do size and aggregation of ice-binding proteins control their ice nucleation efficiency
Y. Qiu, A. Hudait, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141 (2019) 7439-7452
Following the Nucleation Pathway from Disordered Liquid to Gyroid Mesophase
M. Marriott, L. Lupi, A. Kumar, and V. Molinero
J. Chem. Phys.150 (2019) 164902
Pore Condensation and Freezing is Responsible for Ice Formation below Water Saturation
R. O. David, C. Marcolli, J. Fahrni, Y. Qiu, Y. A. Perez Sirkin, V. Molinero, F. Mahrt,
D. Brühwiler, U. Lohmann, and Z. A. Kanji
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116 (2019) 8184-8189
Effect of Polymer Architecture on the Nanophase Segregation, Ionic Conductivity, and
Electro-Osmotic Drag of Anion Exchange Membranes
J. Lu, A. Barnett and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C. 123 (2019) 8717–8726
How do surfactants control the agglomeration of clathrate hydrates?
P. M. Naullage, A. A. Bertolazzo, and V. Molinero
ACS Central Science 5 (2019) 428–439
Assembly of zeolitic crystals from a model of mesogenic patchy nanoparticles
A. Kumar, M. Zare, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C 123 (2019) 971–978
2018
Multiscale Modeling of Structure, Transport, and Reactivity in Alkaline Fuel Cell
Membranes: Combined Coarse-Grained, Atomistic, and Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations
D. Dong, W. Zhang, A. Barnett, J. Lu, A. C. T. van Duin, V. Molinero, and D. Bedrov
Polymers 10 (2018), 1289 [invited]
Could mesophases play a role in the nucleation and polymorph selection of zeolites?
A. Kumar, A. H. Nguyen, R. Okumu, T. D. Shepherd, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140 (2018), 16071–16086
Ice nucleation by particles containing long-chain fatty acids of relevance to freezing
by sea spray aerosols
P. J. DeMott, R. H. Mason, C. S. McCluskey, T. C. J. Hill, R. J. Perkins, A. K. Bertram,
O. Laskina, J. V. Trueblood, V. H. Grassian, Y. Qiu, V. Molinero, Y. Tobo, C. M. Sultana,
C. Lee, and K. A. Prather
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 20 (2018), 1559-1569 [invited]
Two-Step to One-Step Nucleation of a Zeolite through a Metastable Gyroid Mesophase
A. Kumar and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9 (2018) 5692–5697
Why is it so difficult to identify the onset of ice premelting?
Y. Qiu and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9 (2018) 5179-5182
Ice-liquid oscillations in nanoconfined water
N. Kastelowitz and V. Molinero
ACS Nano 12 (2018) 8234-8239
Preordering of water is not needed for ice recognition by hyperactive antifreeze proteins
A. Hudait, D. R. Moberg, Y. Qiu, N. Odendahl, F. Paesani, and V. Molinero
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 115 (2018) 8266-8271
The clathrate-water interface is oleophilic
A. A. Bertolazzo, P. M. Naullage,B. Peters, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9 (2018) 3224–3231
Why is gyroid more difficult to nucleate from disordered liquids than lamellar and
hexagonal mesophases?
A. Kumar and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. B. 122 (2018) 4758–4770
Ice-nucleating and Antifreeze Proteins Recognize Ice Through a Diversity of Anchored
Clathrate and Ice-Like Motifs
A. Hudait, N. Odendahl, Y. Qiu, F. Paesani, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140 (2018) 4905–4912
What Controls the Limit of Supercooling and Superheating of Pinned Ice Surfaces?
P. M. Naullage, Y. Qiu, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9 (2018), 1712–1720
Antifreeze glycoproteins bind reversibly to ice via hydrophobic groups
K. Mochizuki and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140 (2018) 4803–4811 [cover article]
Is water at the graphite interface vapor-like or ice-like?
Y. Qiu, L. Lupi, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. B 122 (2018) 3626–3634 [invited]
2017
Molecular recognition of ice by flexible molecules
P. M. Naullage, L. Lupi, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C 121 (2017) 26949–26957
Soluble oligomeric nucleants: simulations of chain length, binding strength, and volume
fraction effects
G. G. Poon, T. Lemke, C. Peter, V. Molinero, and B. Peters
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8 (2017), 5815–5820
Role of stacking disorder in ice nucleation
L. Lupi, A. Hudait, B. Peters, M. Grunwald, R. G. Mullen, A. H. Nguyen, and V. Molinero
Nature, 551 (2017) 218-222
Promotion of homogeneous ice nucleation by soluble molecules
K. Mochizuki, Y. Qiu, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139 (2017) 17003–17006
Self-assembly of mesophases from nanoparticles
A. Kumar and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. Lett 8 (2017), 5053-5058
Reaction coordinate for ice crystallization on a soft surface
L. Lupi, B. Hanscam, Y. Qiu, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8 (2017) 4201-4205
Sink or swim: ions and organics at the ice-air interface.
A. Hudait, M. T. Allen, and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139 (2017), 10095-10103
Parameterization of a coarse-grained model with short-ranged interactions for modeling
fuel cell membranes with controlled water uptake
J. Lu, C. Miller, and V. Molinero
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19 (2017), 17698-17707
The enhancement mechanism of glycolic acid on the formation of the sulfuric acid-ammonia
molecular cluster
H. Zhang, O. Kupiainen-Maatta, X. Zhang, V. Molinero, Y. Zhang, Z Li
J. Chem. Phys. 146 (2017), 184308
Strength of alkane-fluid attraction determines the interfacial orientation of liquid
alkanes and their crystallization through heterogeneous or homogeneous mechanisms
Y. Qiu and V. Molinero
Crystals, 7 (2017), 86 [invited]
Stability and vapor pressure of aqueous aggregates and aerosols containing a monovalent
ion
Y. Perez Sirkin, M. Factorovich, V. Molinero, and D. A. Scherlis
J. Phys. Chem. A 121 (2017), 2597-2602
Systematic derivation of implicit solvent models for the study of polymer collapse
B. Song, N. Charest, A. Morriss-Andrews, V. Molinero and J-E. Shea
J. Comp. Chem. 38 (2017) 1353-1361 [invited]
Ice nucleation efficiency of hydroxylated organic surfaces is controlled by their
structural fluctuations and mismatch to ice.
Y. Qiu, N. Odendahl, A. Hudait, R. H. Mason, A. K. Bertram, F. Paesani, P. J. DeMott,
and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139 (2017), 3052-3064
A High-Resolution Coarse-Grained Model of Hydrated Anion-Exchange Membranes that Accounts
for Hydrophobic and Ionic Interactions Through Short-Ranged Potentials
J. Lu, L. C. Jacobson, Y. Perez Sirkin, and V. Molinero J. Chem. Theory and Comp. 13 (2017), 245-264 (cover article)
2016
Comparison of Liquid-state Anomalies in Stillinger-Weber Models of Water, Silicon
and Germanium
D. Dhabal, C. Chakravarty, V. Molinero, and H. K. Kashyap, J. Chem. Phys. 145 (2016), 214502
Pre-Ordering of Interfacial Water in the Pathway of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation Does
Not Lead to a Two-Step Crystallization Mechanism
L. Lupi, B. Peters, and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys. 145 (2016), 211910
What Determines the Ice Polymorph in Clouds?
A. Hudait and V. Molinero, J. Am. Chem. Soc 138 (2016) 8958-8967
Relationship Between the Line of Density Anomaly and the Lines of Melting, Crystallization,
Cavitation and Liquid Spinodal in Coarse-Grained Water Models
J. Lu, C. Chakravarty, and V. Molinero, J. Chem.Phys. 144 (2016) 234507
Vapor Pressure of Aqueous Solutions of Electrolytes Reproduced with Coarse-Grained
Models without Electrostatics
Y. A. Perez Sirkin, M. Factorovich, V. Molinero, and D. A. Scherlis, J. Chem.Theory and Comp. 12 (2016),
2942-2949
Modeling Molecular Interactions in Water: From Pairwise to Many-body Potential Energy
Functions.
G. A. Cisneros, K. T. Wikfeldt, L. Ojamae, J. Lu, Y. Xu, H. Torabifard, A. P. Bartok-Partay,
G. Csanyi, V. Molinero, F. Paesani, Chem. Rev. 116 (2016) 7501-7528
Free Energy Contributions and Structural Characterization of Stacking Disordered Ices.
A. Hudait, S. Qiu, L. Lupi, and V. Molinero
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18 (2016) 9544-9553
2015
Excess Entropy and Crystallization in Stillinger-Weber and Lennard-Jones Fluids
D. Dhabal, A. H. Nguyen, M. Singh, P. Khatua, V. Molinero, S. Bandyopadhyay and C.
Chakravarty,
J. Chem. Phys. 143 (2015) 164512
Water-like Anomalies and Phase Behavior of a Pair Potential that Stabilizes Diamond
A. A. Bertolazzo, A. Kumar, C. Chakravarty, and V. Molinero,
J. Phys. Chem. B 120 (2016) 1649-1659
"Hydrogen-bond Heterogeneity Boosts Hydrophobicity of Solid Interfaces" M. H. Factorovich, V. Molinero, and D. A. Scherlis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137 (2015), 10618-10623
"Morphology of Liquid-liquid Phase Separated Aerosols" Y. Qiu and V. Molinero
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137 (2015), 10642-10651
"Structure of the Ice-Clathrate Interface." A. H. Nguyen, M. A. Koc, T. D. Shepherd, and V. Molinero
J. Phys. Chem. C. 119 (2015) 4104-4117
"Stacking Disorder in Ice I" T. L. Malkin, B. J. Murray, C. Salzmann, V. Molinero, S. J. Pickering, and T. F. Whale, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17 (2015) 60-76
"Identification of Clathrate Hydrates, Hexagonal Ice, Cubic Ice, and Liquid Water in Simulations: The CHILL+ Algorithm." A. H. Nguyen and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B. 119 (2015) 9369-9376
2014
"Preface: Special Topic on Interfacial and Confined Water" V. Molinero and B. D. Kay
J. Chem. Phys. 141 (2014) 18C101
"Can Guest Occupancy in Binary Clathrate Hydrates be Tuned Through Control of the Growth Temperature?" B. Song, A. H. Nguyen, and V. Molinero J. Phys. Chem. C (2014) 118 (2014) 23022-23031
"Vapor Deposition of Water on Graphitic Surfaces: Formation of Amorphous Ice, Bilayer Ice, Ice I and Liquid Water" L. Lupi, N. Kastelowitz, and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys. 141 (2014) 18C508 [invited]
"Coarse Graining of TIP4P/2005, TIP4P-Ew, SPC/E and TIP3P to Monatomic Anisotropic
Water models Using Relative Entropy Minimization" J. Lu, Y. Qiu, R. Baron and V. Molinero ,
J. Chem. Theo. and Comp. 10 (2014) 4104-4120
"Sorption Isotherms of Water in Nanopores: The Relation Between Hydropohobicity, Adsorption Pressure, and Hysteresis" M. H. Factorovich, E. Gonzalez Solveyra, V. Molinero, and D. A. Scherlis J. Phys. Chem. C 118 (2014), 16290-16300
"Ice Crystallization in Ultrafine Water-Salt Aerosols: Nucleation, Ice-Solution Equilibrium and Internal Structure" A. Hudait and V. Molinero, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 (2014) 8081-8093
"Competing Pair and Triplet Correlations in the transition from simple to tetrahedral
liquids"
M. Singh, D. Dhabas, A. H. Nguyen, V. Molinero, C. Chakravarty, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, (2014) 147801
"How Short is Too Short for the Interactions of a Water Potential? Exploring the Parameter
Space of a Coarse-Grained Water Model using Uncertainty Quantification"
L. C. Jacobson, R. M. Kirby and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B, 118 (2014) 8190-8202 [invited]
"Vapor pressure of water nanodroplets"
M. H. Factorovich, V. Molinero, and D. A. Scherlis, J. Am. Chem. Soc.,136 (2014) 4508-4514
"Cross-nucleation between clathrate polymorphs: assessing the role of stability, growth
rate and structure matching";
A. H. Nguyen and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys., 140 (2014), 084506
"Does hydrophilicity of carbon particles improve their ice nucleation ability?"
L. Lupi and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem A, 118 (2014) 7330-7337 [invited]
"Heterogeneous Nucleation of Ice on Carbon Surfaces"
L. Lupi, A. Hudait and V. Molinero, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 136 (2014), 3156-3164
“A simple grand canonical approach to compute the vapor pressure of bulk and finite
size systems”
M. Factorovich, V. Molinero, and D. A. Scherlis, J. Chem. Phys. 140 (2014), 064111
“Assessing the effects of crowding, pore size and interactions on electro-osmotic drag coefficients” L. C. Jacobson, X. Ren and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. C 118 (2014), 2093-2103
2013
"Thermodynamic and structural signatures of water-driven methane-methane attraction
in coarse-grained mW water"
B. Song and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys., 139 (2013), 054511
"Low-density liquid water is the mother of ice: on the relation between mesostructure,
thermodynamics and ice crystallization in solutions"
G. Bullock and V. Molinero, Faraday Discussions, 167 (2013), 371 - 388
- Most downloaded Faraday Discussions paper June and July 2013
- Cover Article Faraday Discussions 167
"Stability and metastability of bromine clathrate polymorphs"
A. H. Nguyen and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B, 117 (2013), 6330-6338.
"Nature of the anomalies in the supercooled liquid state of the mW model of water"
V. Holten, D. T. Limmer, V. Molinero and M. A. Anisimov, J. Chem. Phys., 138, (2013), 174501.
"What determines the homogeneous freezing temperature of water?" V. Molinero
AIP Conf. Proc. 1527; Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols: 19th International Conference
(2013), 83-88 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4803209.
“Structure, dynamics and phase behavior of water in TiO2 nanopores”
E. Gonzalez Solveyra, E. de la Llave, V. Molinero, G. Soler-Illia, D. A. Scherlis, J. Phys. Chem. C, 117 (2013), 3330-3342
2012
“Homogeneous nucleation of methane hydrates: unrealistic at realistic conditions”
B. C. Knott, V. Molinero, M. F. Doherty and B. Peters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, (2012), 19544–19547.
“Structure of the clathrate/solution interface and mechanisms of cross-nucleation of
clathrate hydrates”
A. H. Nguyen, L. C. Jacobson and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. C, 116 (2012), 19828–19838.
“The quasi-liquid layer of ice under conditions of methane clathrate formation”
T. D. Shepherd, M. A. Koc and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, (2012), 12172–12180.
“Water-Driven Cavity-Ligand Binding: Comparison of Thermodynamic Signatures from Coarse-Grained
and Atomic-Level Simulations”
R. Baron and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Theory and Comp., 8 (2012), 3696–3704 [invited].
“Liquid-ice coexistence below the melting temperature for water confined in hydrophilic
and hydrophobic nanopores”
E. B. Moore, J. T. Allen and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys. C., 116 (2012), 7507-7514.
“Crystallization, Melting and Structure of Water Nanodroplets at Atmospherically Relevant
Temperatures”
J. C. Johnston and V. Molinero, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134 (2012), 6650-6659.
“Water and Other Tetrahedral Liquids: Order, Anomalies and Solvation”
B. S. Jabes, D. Nayar, D. Dhabal, V. Molinero and C. Chakravarty, J. Phys. Cond. Matt., 24 (2012) 284116.
“Role of Confinement and Surface Affinity on Filling Mechanisms and Sorption Hysteresis
in Nanopores”
E. de la Llave, V. Molinero, and D. A. Scherlis, J. Phys. Chem. C. 116 (2012) 1833–1840
2011
“Is it cubic? Ice crystallization from deeply supercooled water”
E. B. Moore and V. Molinero, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13 (2011), 20008-20016 [invited]
“Is there a liquid-liquid transition in confined water?”
L. Xu and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B (2011), 115 (2011) 14210–14216 [invited].
“Melting and crystallization of ice in partially filled nanopores”
E. Gonzalez Solveyra, E. de la Llave, D. A. Scherlis and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B., 115 (2011), 14196-14204 [invited].
“Structural Transformation in Supercooled Water Controls the Crystallization Rate of
Ice”
E. B. Moore and V. Molinero, Nature, 479 (2011), 506-508
- Hundreds of news articles on this paper appeared scientific websites, included NASA, Smithsonian, Technology Review (published by MIT), C&E News, Science Update (radio feature of AAAS), Discovery News (Discovery Channel), New Scientist, The Alchemist, and newspapers around the world.
“The Rise and Fall of Anomalies in Tetrahedral Liquids”
W. Hujo, B. S. Jabes, V. K. Rana, C. Chakravarty and V. Molinero, J. Stat. Phys. 145 (2011) 293 [invited].
“Order parameters for the multistep crystallization of clathrate hydrates”
L. C. Jacobson, M. Matsumoto and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys. 135 (2011), 074501.
- Cover article
“Can Amorphous Nuclei Grow Crystalline Clathrates? The Size and Crystallinity of Critical
Clathrate Nuclei”
J. C. Jacobson and V. Molinero, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133 (2011), 6458-6463.
“A Single-Component Silicon Quasicrystal
J. C. Johnston, S. Phippen and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2 (2011), 384-388.
“Structural Study of Low Concentration LiCl Aqueous Solutions in the Liquid, Supercooled
and Hyperquenched Glassy State”
K. Winkel, M. Seidl, T. Loerting, L. E. Bove, S. Imberti, V. Molinero, F. Bruni, R.
Mancinelli and M. A. Ricci, J. Chem. Phys, 134 (2011), 024515.
“Nanophase Segregation in Supercooled Aqueous Solutions and their Glasses Driven by
the Polyamorphism of Water”
L. Le and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. A, 115 (2011), 5900–5907 [invited]
“A Coarse-Grained Model of DNA with Explicit Solvation by Water and Ions”
R. C. DeMille, T.E. Cheatham III and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B., 115 (2011), 132-142.
2010
“Liquid to quasicrystal transition in bilayer water”
J. C. Johnston, N. Kastelowitz and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys., 133 (2010), 154516.
- The article was the topic of a news article “Water takes forbidden form”
by Philip Ball on the November 16 2010 issue of in Chemistry World (an RSC publication). - This work was the topic of a news article “Ice is predicted to be weirder still”
by Adrian Cho in Science 8 April 2011 (Science, 332, 170-171 (2011))
“Nucleation Pathways of Clathrate Hydrates: Effect of Guest Size and Solubility”
L. C. Jacobson, W. Hujo and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B., 114 (2010), 13796–13807.
“Amorphous Precursors in the Nucleation of Clathrate Hydrates”
L. C. Jacobson, W. Hujo and V. Molinero, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132 (2010), 11806–11811.
“Water filling of hydrophilic nanopores”
E. de la Llave, V. Molinero and D. A. Scherlis, J. Chem. Phys., 133 (2010), 034513.
“Ice crystallization in water’s “no-man’s land”
E. B. Moore and V. Molinero, J. Chem Phys., 132 (2010), 244504.
- Most downloaded paper of J. Chem. Phys., August 2010.
- Second most downloaded paper of J. Chem. Phys., July 2010.
- Research Highlight of the J. Chem. Phys., July-August 2010.
- Press release of the article by AIP was “The secret life of water at very low temperatures”
was reproduced by more than 650 blogs.
“A Methane-Water Model for Coarse-Grained Simulations of Solutions and Clathrate Hydrates”
L. C. Jacobson and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114 (2010), 7302-7311.
“Liquid-vapor oscillations of water nanoconfined between hydrophobic disks: thermodynamics
and kinetics”
L. Xu and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114 (2010), 7320-7328.
“The Anomalously High Melting Temperature of Bilayer Ice”
N. Kastelowitz, Jessica C. Johnston and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys., 132 (2010), 124511.
- The results of this work were disseminated in the article “Immer mehr bizarre Eigenarten beim Wasser entdeckt” (More and more bizarre quirks found in water) by the German newspaper Die Welt on June 30th 2010.
“Freezing, Melting and Structure of Ice in a Hydrophilic Nanopore”
E.B. Moore, E. de la Llave, K. Welke, D. A. Scherlis and V. Molinero, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12 (2010), 4124-4134.
2009
“Coarse-grained Ions Without Charges: Reproducing the Solvation Structure of NaCl in
water using Short-Ranged Potentials”
R. DeMille and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys., 131, (2009), 034107.
“Thermodynamic Stability And Growth Of Guest-Free Clathrate Hydrates, A Low-Density
Crystal Phase Of Water”
L. C. Jacobson, W. Hujo and V. Molinero, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113 (2009), 10298–10307.
“Growing correlation length in supercooled water”
E. B. Moore and V. Molinero, J. Chem. Phys., 130, (2009), 244505.
- J. Chem. Phys. Editor’s choice 2009.
- Selected for the 80th Anniversary Collection of J. Chem. Phys.
“Water modeled as an intermediate element between carbon and silicon”
V. Molinero, E. B. Moore, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113 (2009), 4008. [invited]
2008
“Electron Microscopy Study of Germanium Glass Vitrified by High Pressure Melt-Quench”
V. C. Solomon, M. H, Bhat, V. Molinero, E. Soignard, , S. Sastry, J. L Yarger, and
C. A. Angell, Microsc. Microanal., 14 Suppl 2 (2008), 1138-1139.
2007
"Vitrification of a monatomic metallic liquid"
M. H, Bhat, V. Molinero, E. Soignard, S. Sastry, J. L Yarger, and C. A. Angell, Nature, 448 (2007), 787-790.
- Article featured in C&E News, “Germanium goes glassy”, 85 (2007), 34, 50.
Postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate research publications
“Tuning of tetrahedrality in a silicon potential yields a series of monatomic (metal-like)
glassformers of very high fragility”
V. Molinero, S. Sastry, and C. A. Angell, Phys. Rev. Lett., 97 (2006) 075701.
“Multi-paradigm multi-scale simulations for fuel cell catalysts and membranes”
W. Goddard III, B. Merinov, A. van Duin, T. Jacib, M. Blanco, V. Molinero, S.S. Jang
And Y.H. Jang. Molecular Simulations, 32 (2006) 251–268.
“Molecular modeling of carbohydrates with no charges, no hydrogen bonds and no atoms”
V. Molinero, and W.A. Goddard III. In ACS Symposium Series No. 930, NMR Spectroscopy and Computer Modeling of Carbohydrates”,
J.F.G.Vliegenthart and R. Woods Ed., ACS, Washington DC, 2006.
“Microscopic mechanism of water diffusion in glucose glasses”
V. Molinero, and W.A. Goddard III. Phys. Rev. Lett., 95 (2005) 045701.
“Nanophase-Segregation and Water Dynamics in the Dendrion Diblock Copolymer Formed
from Polyaryl Ethereal Dendrimer and Linear PTFE”
S. S. Jang, S-T Lin, T. Cagin, V. Molinero, and W.A. Goddard III. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2005, 109, 10154-10167.
“Effect of monomeric sequence on nanostructure and water dynamics in Nafion 117”
S. S. Jang, V. Molinero, T. Cagin, and W.A. Goddard III. Solid State Ionics, 2004, 175,805.
“Fluorinated imidazoles as proton carriers for water-free fuel cell membranes" W. Deng, V. Molinero, and W.A. Goddard III. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 15644-15645.
“The mechanisms of nonexponential relaxations in supercooled glucose solutions: the role of water facilitation" V. Molinero, T. Cagin and W.A. Goddard III. J. Phys. Chem. A 2004, 108, 3699 – 3712.
“Nanophase-segregation and transport in Nafion 117 from molecular dynamics simulations:
effect of monomeric sequence”
S. S. Jang, V. Molinero, T. Cagin, and W.A. Goddard III. J. Phys. Chem. B 108, (2004), 3149-3157.
“M3B: a coarse grain force field for the simulation of oligosaccharides and their water
mixtures"
V. Molinero, and W.A. Goddard III. J. Phys. Chem. B 108, (2004), 1414-1427.
“Sugar, water and free-volume networks in concentrated sucrose solutions". V. Molinero, T. Cagin, and W.A. Goddard III. Chem. Phys. Lett. 377, ( 2003),469-474.
“Dynamics of solvation-induced structural transitions in mesoscopic binary clusters". V. Molinero, D. Laria, and R. Kapral. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, (2000)455-458.
“Mixing and segregation in binary polar-molecule clusters”
V. Molinero, D. Laria, and R. Kapral. J. Chem. Phys. 109, (2000), 6844-6853.
“Electrostatic interactions at self assembled molecular films of charged thiols on
gold”
V. Molinero, and E. J. Calvo. J. Electroanal. Chem. 17, (1998), 17-25.