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Yu S, He J, Zhang Z, Sun Z, Xie M, Xu Y, Bie X, Li Q, Zhang Y, Sevilla M, Titirici MM, Zhou H. Towards Negative Emissions: Hydrothermal Carbonization of Biomass for Sustainable Carbon Materials. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2307412. [PMID: 38251820 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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The contemporary production of carbon materials heavily relies on fossil fuels, contributing significantly to the greenhouse effect. Biomass is a carbon-neutral resource whose organic carbon is formed from atmospheric CO2. Employing biomass as a precursor for synthetic carbon materials can fix atmospheric CO2 into solid materials, achieving negative carbon emissions. Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) presents an attractive method for converting biomass into carbon materials, by which biomass can be transformed into materials with favorable properties in a distinct hydrothermal environment, and these carbon materials have made extensive progress in many fields. However, the HTC of biomass is a complex and interdisciplinary problem, involving simultaneously the physical properties of the underlying biomass and sub/supercritical water, the chemical mechanisms of hydrothermal synthesis, diverse applications of resulting carbon materials, and the sustainability of the entire technological routes. This review starts with the analysis of biomass composition and distinctive characteristics of the hydrothermal environment. Then, the factors influencing the HTC of biomass, the reaction mechanism, and the properties of resulting carbon materials are discussed in depth, especially the different formation mechanisms of primary and secondary hydrochars. Furthermore, the application and sustainability of biomass-derived carbon materials are summarized, and some insights into future directions are provided.
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- Shijie Yu
- Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of CO2 Utilization and Reduction Technology, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of CO2 Utilization and Reduction Technology, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Lignocellulosic Chemistry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of CO2 Utilization and Reduction Technology, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of CO2 Utilization and Reduction Technology, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of CO2 Utilization and Reduction Technology, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of CO2 Utilization and Reduction Technology, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of CO2 Utilization and Reduction Technology, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China
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- Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Carbono (INCAR), CSIC, Francisco Pintado Fe 26, Oviedo, 33011, Spain
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- Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of CO2 Utilization and Reduction Technology, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China
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Wen M, Chang X, Xu Y, Chen D, Chu Q. Determining the mechanical and decomposition properties of high energetic materials (α-RDX, β-HMX, and ε-CL-20) using a neural network potential. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:9984-9997. [PMID: 38477375 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp00017j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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Molecular simulations of high energetic materials (HEMs) are limited by efficiency and accuracy. Recently, neural network potential (NNP) models have achieved molecular simulations of millions of atoms while maintaining the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) levels. Herein, an NNP model covering typical HEMs containing C, H, N, and O elements is developed. The mechanical and decomposition properties of 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (HMX), and 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20) are determined by employing the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on the NNP model. The calculated results show that the mechanical properties of α-RDX, β-HMX, and ε-CL-20 agree with previous experiments and theoretical results, including cell parameters, equations of state, and elastic constants. In the thermal decomposition simulations, it is also found that the initial decomposition reactions of the three crystals are N-NO2 homolysis, corresponding radical intermediates formation, and NO2-induced reactions. This decomposition trajectory is mainly divided into two stages separating from the peak of NO2: pyrolysis and oxidation. Overall, the NNP model for C/H/N/O elements in this work is an alternative reactive force field for RDX, HMX, and CL-20 HEMs, and it opens up new potential for future kinetic study of nitramine explosives.
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- Mingjie Wen
- State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China.
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Zeng J, Zhang D, Lu D, Mo P, Li Z, Chen Y, Rynik M, Huang L, Li Z, Shi S, Wang Y, Ye H, Tuo P, Yang J, Ding Y, Li Y, Tisi D, Zeng Q, Bao H, Xia Y, Huang J, Muraoka K, Wang Y, Chang J, Yuan F, Bore SL, Cai C, Lin Y, Wang B, Xu J, Zhu JX, Luo C, Zhang Y, Goodall REA, Liang W, Singh AK, Yao S, Zhang J, Wentzcovitch R, Han J, Liu J, Jia W, York DM, E W, Car R, Zhang L, Wang H. DeePMD-kit v2: A software package for deep potential models. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:054801. [PMID: 37526163 PMCID: PMC10445636 DOI: 10.1063/5.0155600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023] Open
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DeePMD-kit is a powerful open-source software package that facilitates molecular dynamics simulations using machine learning potentials known as Deep Potential (DP) models. This package, which was released in 2017, has been widely used in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and material science for studying atomistic systems. The current version of DeePMD-kit offers numerous advanced features, such as DeepPot-SE, attention-based and hybrid descriptors, the ability to fit tensile properties, type embedding, model deviation, DP-range correction, DP long range, graphics processing unit support for customized operators, model compression, non-von Neumann molecular dynamics, and improved usability, including documentation, compiled binary packages, graphical user interfaces, and application programming interfaces. This article presents an overview of the current major version of the DeePMD-kit package, highlighting its features and technical details. Additionally, this article presents a comprehensive procedure for conducting molecular dynamics as a representative application, benchmarks the accuracy and efficiency of different models, and discusses ongoing developments.
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- Jinzhe Zeng
- Laboratory for Biomolecular Simulation Research, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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- HEDPS, CAPT, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China
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- Yuanpei College, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
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- Department of Experimental Physics, Comenius University, Mlynská Dolina F2, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
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- ByteDance Research, Zhonghang Plaza, No. 43, North 3rd Ring West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Yuanpei College, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- AI for Science Institute, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China
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- Baidu, Inc., Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Physics, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, People’s Republic of China
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- ByteDance Research, Zhonghang Plaza, No. 43, North 3rd Ring West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- DP Technology, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China
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- DP Technology, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China
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- Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences and Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Process, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- DP Technology, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China
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- DP Technology, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, Kerala, India
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- DP Technology, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China
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- NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC), Santa Clara, California 95051, USA
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- Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute, New York, New York 10010, USA
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- College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China
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- Laboratory for Biomolecular Simulation Research, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed:
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Ko HY, Calegari Andrade MF, Sparrow ZM, Zhang JA, DiStasio RA. High-Throughput Condensed-Phase Hybrid Density Functional Theory for Large-Scale Finite-Gap Systems: The SeA Approach. J Chem Theory Comput 2023. [PMID: 37385014 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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High-throughput electronic structure calculations (often performed using density functional theory (DFT)) play a central role in screening existing and novel materials, sampling potential energy surfaces, and generating data for machine learning applications. By including a fraction of exact exchange (EXX), hybrid functionals reduce the self-interaction error in semilocal DFT and furnish a more accurate description of the underlying electronic structure, albeit at a computational cost that often prohibits such high-throughput applications. To address this challenge, we have constructed a robust, accurate, and computationally efficient framework for high-throughput condensed-phase hybrid DFT and implemented this approach in the PWSCF module of Quantum ESPRESSO (QE). The resulting SeA approach (SeA = SCDM + exx + ACE) combines and seamlessly integrates: (i) the selected columns of the density matrix method (SCDM, a robust noniterative orbital localization scheme that sidesteps system-dependent optimization protocols), (ii) a recently extended version of exx (a black-box linear-scaling EXX algorithm that exploits sparsity between localized orbitals in real space when evaluating the action of the standard/full-rank V^xx operator), and (iii) adaptively compressed exchange (ACE, a low-rank V^xx approximation). In doing so, SeA harnesses three levels of computational savings: pair selection and domain truncation from SCDM + exx (which only considers spatially overlapping orbitals on orbital-pair-specific and system-size-independent domains) and low-rank V^xx approximation from ACE (which reduces the number of calls to SCDM + exx during the self-consistent field (SCF) procedure). Across a diverse set of 200 nonequilibrium (H2O)64 configurations (with densities spanning 0.4-1.7 g/cm3), SeA provides a 1-2 order-of-magnitude speedup in the overall time-to-solution, i.e., ≈8-26× compared to the convolution-based PWSCF(ACE) implementation in QE and ≈78-247× compared to the conventional PWSCF(Full) approach, and yields energies, ionic forces, and other properties with high fidelity. As a proof-of-principle high-throughput application, we trained a deep neural network (DNN) potential for ambient liquid water at the hybrid DFT level using SeA via an actively learned data set with ≈8,700 (H2O)64 configurations. Using an out-of-sample set of (H2O)512 configurations (at nonambient conditions), we confirmed the accuracy of this SeA-trained potential and showcased the capabilities of SeA by computing the ground-truth ionic forces in this challenging system containing >1,500 atoms.
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- Hsin-Yu Ko
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
- Quantum Simulations Group, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Romanelli G, Andreani C, Fazi L, Ishteev A, Konstantinova K, Preziosi E, Senesi R, Di Carlo A. Changes in the hydrogen nuclear kinetic energy across the several phases of methylammonium lead tribromide. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:094501. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0104917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present an experimental investigation of methylammonium lead tribromide single crystals in the orthorhombic, tetragonal, and cubic phases based on inelastic and deep inelastic neutron scattering experiments. We show how the average hydrogen nuclear kinetic energy, mainly affected by zero-point vibrational energies, shows differences larger compared to the changes simply related to temperature effects when moving from one phase to another. In particular, the Gaussian contribution to the average nuclear kinetic energy is larger in the tetragonal phase compared to the cubic and orthorhombic ones. Moreover, we find that the vibrational densities of states of MAPbBr3 single crystals in the orthorhombic phase are compatible with previously reported results on powder samples, and that the only vibrational modes that show slightly different frequencies compared to MAPbI3 are those in the energy range between 100 and 300 cm-1, related to librational/rotational modes. As these shifts are of about 10 cm-1, and do not affect any higher-energy vibrational mode, we conclude that the zero-point energies and average nuclear kinetic energies in the two-hybrid organic/inorganic perovskites are expected to be approximately the same within a harmonic framework.
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- Giovanni Romanelli
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica and Centro NAST, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
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- Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Italy
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- LASE - Laboratory of Advanced Solar Energy, NUST MISiS, 119049, Russia
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- Physics Department and NAST Centre, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy
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- CHOSE - Centre For Hybrid and Organic Solar energy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
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Romanelli G, Onorati D, Ulpiani P, Cancelli S, Perelli-Cippo E, Márquez Damián JI, Capelli SC, Croci G, Muraro A, Tardocchi M, Gorini G, Andreani C, Senesi R. Thermal neutron cross sections of amino acids from average contributions of functional groups. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 33:285901. [PMID: 33906173 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/abfc13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The experimental thermal neutron cross sections of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids have been measured over the incident-neutron energy range spanning from 1 meV to 10 keV and data have been interpreted using the multi-phonon expansion based on first-principles calculations. The scattering cross section, dominated by the incoherent inelastic contribution from the hydrogen atoms, can be rationalised in terms of the average contributions of different functional groups, thus neglecting their correlation. These results can be used for modelling the total neutron cross sections of complex organic systems like proteins, muscles, or human tissues from a limited number of starting input functions. This simplification is of crucial importance for fine-tuning of transport simulations used in medical applications, including boron neutron capture therapy as well as secondary neutrons-emission induced during proton therapy. Moreover, the parametrized neutron cross sections allow a better treatment of neutron scattering experiments, providing detailed sample self-attenuation corrections for a variety of biological and soft-matter systems.
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- Giovanni Romanelli
- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UKRI-STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Dipartimento di Fisica and NAST Centre, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Roma 00133, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Roma 00133, Italy
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UKRI-STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, Milano, Italy
- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, CNR, via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, CNR, via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, CNR, via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy
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- Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, Milano, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Dipartimento di Fisica and NAST Centre, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Roma 00133, Italy
- CNR-ISM, Area della Ricerca di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Dipartimento di Fisica and NAST Centre, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Roma 00133, Italy
- CNR-IPCF, Sezione di Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 37, Messina, 98158, Italy
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Drużbicki K, Gaboardi M, Fernandez-Alonso F. Dynamics & Spectroscopy with Neutrons-Recent Developments & Emerging Opportunities. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:1440. [PMID: 33947108 PMCID: PMC8125526 DOI: 10.3390/polym13091440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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This work provides an up-to-date overview of recent developments in neutron spectroscopic techniques and associated computational tools to interrogate the structural properties and dynamical behavior of complex and disordered materials, with a focus on those of a soft and polymeric nature. These have and continue to pave the way for new scientific opportunities simply thought unthinkable not so long ago, and have particularly benefited from advances in high-resolution, broadband techniques spanning energy transfers from the meV to the eV. Topical areas include the identification and robust assignment of low-energy modes underpinning functionality in soft solids and supramolecular frameworks, or the quantification in the laboratory of hitherto unexplored nuclear quantum effects dictating thermodynamic properties. In addition to novel classes of materials, we also discuss recent discoveries around water and its phase diagram, which continue to surprise us. All throughout, emphasis is placed on linking these ongoing and exciting experimental and computational developments to specific scientific questions in the context of the discovery of new materials for sustainable technologies.
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- Kacper Drużbicki
- Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Sienkiewicza 112, 90-363 Lodz, Poland
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- Elettra—Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14 km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Trieste, Italy;
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- Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
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Ulpiani P, Romanelli G, Onorati D, Krzystyniak M, Andreani C, Senesi R. The effective isotropy of the hydrogen local potential in biphenyl and other hydrocarbons. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:234306. [PMID: 33353342 DOI: 10.1063/5.0029578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present an experimental investigation of the hydrogen nuclear momentum distribution in biphenyl using deep inelastic neutron scattering. Our experimental results suggest that the local potential affecting hydrogen is both harmonic and isotropic within experimental uncertainties. This feature is interpreted as a consequence of the central limit theorem, whereby the three-dimensional momentum distribution is expected to become a purely Gaussian function as the number of independent vibrational modes in a system increases. We also performed ab initio phonon calculations on biphenyl and other saturated hydrocarbons, from methane to decane. From the results of the simulations, one can observe that the nuclear momentum distribution becomes more isotropic as the number of atoms and normal modes in the molecule increases. Moreover, the predicted theoretical anisotropy in biphenyl is clearly larger than in the experiment. The reason is that the total number of normal modes necessary to reproduce the experimental results is much larger than the number of normal modes encompassed by a single unit cell due to the presence of structural disorder and intermolecular interactions in the real crystal, as well as coupling of different normal modes. Finally, experimental data were collected, over a subset of detectors on the VESUVIO spectrometer at ISIS, with a novel setup to increase the count rate and signal-to-background ratio. We envision that such an optimized experimental setup can provide faster measurements and more stringent constraints for phonon calculations.
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- Pierfrancesco Ulpiani
- Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata," Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Rome 00133, Italy
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- ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11OQX, United Kingdom
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- Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata," Dipartimento di Fisica and NAST Center, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Rome 00133, Italy
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- ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11OQX, United Kingdom
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- Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata," Dipartimento di Fisica and NAST Center, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Rome 00133, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata," Dipartimento di Fisica and NAST Center, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Rome 00133, Italy
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