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most citedHow reactive is water at the nanoscale and how to control it?

6 citations · 10 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

How Good Is DFT for Solid-Liquid Interfaces? A Comparison With the Random-Phase Approximation for Water on Graphene

Xavier R. Advincula, Yair Litman, Jiuyang Shi +3

Simulations of water at solid interfaces routinely disagree on basic properties, from contact angle to friction, depending on the model used, whether an empirical force field or a…

physics.chem-ph2026

Breaking Water at Graphene Defects

Samuel G. H. Brookes, IniOluwa C. Popoola, Fabian Berger +3

Water dissociation at solid surfaces underpins processes ranging from corrosion and catalysis to electrochemistry and photovoltaics. Defects often serve as reactive sites for disso…

physics.chem-ph2026

Rem3Di: Learning smooth, chiral 3D molecular descriptors from atomistic foundation models

Steffen Wedig, Felix Burton, Rokas Elijošius +2

Foundation machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are trained on large quantum-mechanical datasets and generalise across broad regions of chemical and configurational space…

physics.chem-ph2026

From Accurate Quantum Chemistry to Converged Thermodynamics for Ion Pairing in Solution

Niamh O'Neill, Benjamin X. Shi, William C. Witt +6

Quantitative prediction of thermodynamic properties in solution is essential for translating atomistic simulations into reliable chemical insight. As an exemplar system, the behavi…

physics.chem-ph2026★ 1 cited

False Metallization in Short-Ranged Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials

Isaac J. Parker, Mandy J. Hoffmann, William J. Baldwin +7

Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have enabled atomistic simulations with ab initio accuracy for a fraction of the computational cost. However, many widely used MLIPs…

stat.ML2026

Cutting Through the Noise: On-the-fly Outlier Detection for Robust Training of Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials

Terry C. W. Lam, Niamh O'Neill, Christoph Schran +1

The accuracy of machine learning interatomic potentials suffers from reference data that contains numerical noise. Often originating from unconverged or inconsistent electronic-str…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Strain-Dependent Wetting of Graphene

Darren Wayne Lim, Xavier R. Advincula, William C. Witt +3

Understanding how water wets graphene is critical for predicting and controlling its behaviour in nanofluidic, sensing, and energy applications. A key measure of wetting is the con…

physics.chem-ph2025

When Is Nanoconfined Water Different From Interfacial Water?

Xavier R. Advincula, Christoph Schran, Angelos Michaelides

Water behaves very differently at surfaces and under extreme confinement, but the boundary between these two regimes has remained unclear. Despite evidence that interfacial effects…

physics.chem-ph2025

Breaking the Air-Water Paradigm: Ion Behavior at Hydrophobic Solid-Water Interfaces

Xavier R. Advincula, Kara D. Fong, Yongkang Wang +4

Hydrophobic solid-water interfaces underpin processes in nanofluidics, electrochemistry, and energy technologies. Microscopic insights into these systems are often inferred from ou…

physics.chem-ph2025

Clay Edges Are Dynamic Proton-conducting Networks Modulated by Structure and pH

Yixuan Feng, Xavier R. Advincula, Hongwei Fang +1

Montmorillonite, a ubiquitous clay mineral, plays a vital role in geochemical and environmental processes due to its chemically complex edge surfaces. However, the molecular-scale…

physics.chem-ph2025

Towards Routine Condensed Phase Simulations with Delta-Learned Coupled Cluster Accuracy: Application to Liquid Water

Niamh O'Neill, Benjamin X. Shi, William Baldwin +5

Simulating liquid water to an accuracy that matches its wealth of available experimental data requires both precise electronic structure methods and reliable sampling of nuclear (q…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 6 cited

How reactive is water at the nanoscale and how to control it?

Xavier R. Advincula, Yair Litman, Kara D. Fong +3

Nanoconfined water plays a key role in nanofluidics, electrochemistry, and catalysis, yet its reactivity remains a matter of debate. Prior studies have reported both enhanced and s…

physics.chem-ph2025

Nanoconfined superionic water is a molecular superionic

Samuel W. Coles, Amir Hajibabaei, Venkat Kapil +4

Superionic ice, where water molecules dissociate into a lattice of oxygen ions and a rapidly diffusing 'gas' of protons, represents an exotic state of matter with broad implication…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Spontaneous Surface Charging and Janus Nature of the Hexagonal Boron Nitride-Water Interface

Yongkang Wang, Haojian Luo, Xavier R. Advincula +14

Boron, nitrogen and carbon are neighbors in the periodic table and can form strikingly similar twin structures-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphene-yet nanofluidic experiment…

physics.chem-ph2025

CO2 Hydration at the Air-Water Interface: A Surface-Mediated 'In and Out' Mechanism

Samuel G. H. Brookes, Venkat Kapil, Angelos Michaelides +1

An understanding of the CO + HO hydration reaction is crucial for modeling the effects of ocean acidification, for enabling novel carbon storage solutions, and as a model p…

physics.ed-ph2024★ 2 cited

PLUMED Tutorials: a collaborative, community-driven learning ecosystem

Gareth A. Tribello, Massimiliano Bonomi, Giovanni Bussi +60

In computational physics, chemistry, and biology, the implementation of new techniques in a shared and open source software lowers barriers to entry and promotes rapid scientific p…