Origin of the overpotentials for HCOO− and CO formation in the electroreduction of CO2 on Cu(211): the reductive desorption processes decide

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 5756-5765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Liu ◽  
Chungen Liu

Potential-related free energy profiles of CO and HCOO− pathways in CO2RR on Cu(211) are computed with implicit solvent model.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1778-1787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuojun Guo ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Joachim Dzubiella ◽  
Li-Tien Cheng ◽  
J. Andrew McCammon ◽  
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Author(s):  
Amanuel Wolde-Kidan ◽  
Anna Herrmann ◽  
Albert Prause ◽  
Michael Gradzielski ◽  
Rainer Haag ◽  
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Author(s):  
Norifumi Yamamoto

The contributing factors that cause the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) are determined by identifying characteristic differences in the free energy profiles of the AIE processes of the AIE-active E-form of CN-MBE and the inactive Z-form.





2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4052
Author(s):  
Alice Romeo ◽  
Mattia Falconi ◽  
Alessandro Desideri ◽  
Federico Iacovelli

The pH-responsive behavior of six triple-helix DNA nanoswitches, differing in the number of protonation centers (two or four) and in the length of the linker (5, 15 or 25 bases), connecting the double-helical region to the single-strand triplex-forming region, was characterized at the atomistic level through Adaptively Biased Molecular Dynamics simulations. The reconstruction of the free energy profiles of triplex-forming oligonucleotide unbinding from the double helix identified a different minimum energy path for the three diprotic nanoswitches, depending on the length of the connecting linker and leading to a different per-base unbinding profile. The same analyses carried out on the tetraprotic switches indicated that, in the presence of four protonation centers, the unbinding process occurs independently of the linker length. The simulation data provide an atomistic explanation for previously published experimental results showing, only in the diprotic switch, a two unit increase in the pKa switching mechanism decreasing the linker length from 25 to 5 bases, endorsing the validity of computational methods for the design and refinement of functional DNA nanodevices.



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