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20192026
most citedA New Kind of Atlas of Zeolite Building Blocks

40 citations · 141 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Extending Hamiltonian-Adaptive Resolution Simulation to Interfaces: An Updated LAMMPS Implementation and Application to Porous Solids

Hari Haran Sudhakar, Alessandra Serva, Rocio Semino

Many natural phenomena involve processes that happen simultaneously at different characteristic length- and timescales. Typically, the region where the process of interest happens…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Systematic Study of Machine Learning Classification Algorithms of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Polymorphs

Emilio Méndez, Léna Triestram, Dune André +2

Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) are a family of metal--organic frameworks that feature metal centers tetrahedrally linked to imidazole-based ligands and adopt zeolite-like t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Reactive Coarse Grained Force Field for Metal-Organic Frameworks applied to Modeling ZIF-8 Self-Assembly

Sangita Mondal, Cecilia M. S. Alvares, Rocio Semino

Decoding the self-assembly mechanism of metal-organic frameworks is a crucial step in reducing trial-and-error tests in their synthesis protocols. Atomistic simulations have proven…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Computer Simulation of the Growth of a Metal-Organic Framework Proto-crystal at Constant Chemical Potential

Sahar Andarzi Gargari, Emilio Méndez, Rocio Semino

Designing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) synthesis protocols is currently largely driven by trial-and-error, since we lack fundamental understanding of the molecular level mechani…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

MARTINI-based force fields for predicting gas separation performances of MOF/polymer composites

Cecilia M. S. Alvares, Rocio Semino

MOF/polymer composites have been widely investigated in the past decade for gas separation applications. However, the impact of MOF nanoparticle morphology and size in gas separati…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 2 cited

Unveiling ZIF-8 nucleation mechanisms through molecular simulation: role of temperature, solvent and reactant concentration

Sahar Andarzi Gargari, Rocio Semino

Synthesizing new metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is a challenging task, as the size, morphology, polymorph and type and number of defects present on the synthesis product may depen…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 7 cited

Thermodynamic Insights into the Self-assembly of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks from Computer Simulations

Emilio Méndez, Rocio Semino

New metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are periodically synthesized all over the world due to the wide range of societally and environmentally relevant applications they possess. Howe…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 5 cited

Coarse grained modeling of a metal-organic framework/polymer composite and its gas adsorption at the nanoparticle level

Cecilia M. S. Alvares, Rocio Semino

Simulations have acted as a cornerstone to understand MOF/polymer interface structure, however, no molecular-level simulation has yet been performed at the nanoparticle scale. In t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 8 cited

Phase Diagram of ZIF-4 Computed via Well-tempered Metadynamics

Emilio Mendez, Rocio Semino

Well-tempered metadynamics simulations are employed to explore the phase diagram of ZIF-4, a porous crystalline metal-organic framework of industrial relevance. Despite the vast am…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 7 cited

Force Matching and Iterative Boltzmann Inversion Coarse Grained Force Fields for ZIF-8

Cecilia M. S. Alvares, Rocio Semino

Despite the intense activity at the electronic and atomistic resolutions, coarse grained (CG) modeling of MOFs remains largely unexplored. One of the main reasons for this is the l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 8 cited

Microscopic Mechanism of the Thermal Amorphization of ZIF-4 and Melting of ZIF-zni Revealed via Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning Techniques

Emilio Mendez, Rocio Semino

We investigate the microscopic mechanism of the thermally induced ambient pressure ordered-disordered phase transitions of two zeolitic imidazolate frameworks of formula Zn(CH$…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 13 cited

Coarse Grained modeling of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 using MARTINI Force Fields

Cecilia M. S. Alvares, Guillaume Maurin, Rocio Semino

In this contribution, the well-known MARTINI particle-based coarse graining approach is tested for its ability to model the ZIF-8 metal-organic framework. Its capability to describ…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 30 cited

Computer Simulation of the Early Stages of Self-Assembly and Thermal Decomposition of ZIF-8

Salvador R. G. Balestra, Rocio Semino

We employ all-atom well-tempered metadynamics simulations to study the mechanistic details of both the early stages of nucleation and crystal decomposition for the benchmark metal-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 17 cited

Ranking the Synthesizability of Hypothetical Zeolites with the Sorting Hat

Benjamin A. Helfrecht, Giovanni Pireddu, Rocio Semino +2

Zeolites are nanoporous alumino-silicate frameworks widely used as catalysts and adsorbents. Even though millions of distinct siliceous networks can be generated by computer-aided…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 40 cited

A New Kind of Atlas of Zeolite Building Blocks

Benjamin A. Helfrecht, Rocio Semino, Giovanni Pireddu +2

We have analysed structural motifs in the Deem database of hypothetical zeolites, to investigate whether the structural diversity found in this database can be well-represented by…