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Developing a Molecular Theory of Electromechanical Responses
Keith A. Werling, Geoffrey R. Hutchison, Daniel S. Lambrecht
Developing a bottom-up (molecular) theory for the electromechanical response of aperiodic materials is a prerequisite for understanding the piezoelectric properties of systems such…
Rapid Computational Optimization of Molecular Properties using Genetic Algorithms: Searching Across Millions of Compounds for Organic Photovoltaic Materials
Ilana Y. Kanal, Geoffrey R. Hutchison
Conjugated organic molecules represent an important area of materials chemistry for both fundamental scientific exploration and technological applications. Using a genetic algorith…
Inverse Design of Conjugated Polymers from Computed Electronic Structure Properties: Model Chemistries of Polythiophenes
Ilana Y. Kanal, Steven G. Owens, Andrey B. Sharapov +1
Using a diverse set of 100 oligothiophenes, extrapolated oligomer and polymer HOMO, LUMO and HOMO-LUMO gaps are shown to be accurately estimated from the computed values of the tri…
Self-Assembled Monolayer Piezoelectrics: Electric-Field Driven Conformational Changes
Xinfeng Quan, Jeffry D. Madura, Geoffrey R. Hutchison
We demonstrate that an applied electric field causes piezoelectric distortion across single molecular monolayers of oligopeptides. We deposited self-assembled monolayers ~1.5 nm hi…
Single Molecule Ferroelectrics via Conformational Inversion: An Electronic Structure Investigation
Xinfeng Quan, Geoffrey R. Hutchison
Ferroelectric materials can switch their polarization in response to an applied electric field. In this work, ferroelectricity at the single molecule level is proposed and investig…
A Sobering Assessment of Small-Molecule Force Field Methods for Low Energy Conformer Predictions
Ilana Y. Kanal, John A. Keith, Geoffrey R. Hutchison
We have carried out a large scale computational investigation to assess the utility of common small-molecule force fields for computational screening of low energy conformers of ty…