New year and new faces - we're delighted to welcome Prof. Renee Frontiera as our newest Associate Editor!
Renee (
@rfrontiera
) is a Professor at
@UMNChemistry
and her research focuses on the use of
#Raman
spectroscopy techniques to examine various systems
We are delighted to welcome a new Associate Editor, Prof. Weitao Yang (
@WeitaoYangGroup
), to our Editorial Board!
Yang is the Philip Handler Professor at
@DukeChemistry
/
@DukeU
where his group focuses on methods for quantum mechanical calculations of large systems.
Editor's Pick from
@ChengBingqing
@ISTAustria
is an important step towards the possibility of computing chemical potentials in complex mixtures on a routine basis. Great work, read it here!
JCP Deputy Editor and Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Angelos Michaelides, who published his first ever paper in JCP, wishes the journal a Happy 90th Birthday!
JCP Editor-in-Chief and Professor of Chemistry at Emory University, Tianquan (Tim) Lian, wishes JCP a Happy 90th Birthday, and ensures that the JCP editorial team will work hard to continue publishing the best papers in chemical physics!
@TimLian5
This collection celebrates recent work in
#electrontransfer
triggered by Marcus' 1956 Nobel Prize-winning work - read the guest editorial by Cherri Hsu &
@HammarstromLeif
, with tribute to the late Bob Cave, here:
Full collection:
How to (re)define semi-empirical in the scope of quantum chemistry? Should DFT be considered semi-empirical? Parametrized fragmentation methods offer immense benefits in terms of speed and insight.
@aist_en
David Reichman, JCP Associate Editor and Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, wishes JCP a Happy 90th Birthday ๐ - a journal he has looked to and respected since he was an undergraduate.
@ChemColumbia
Congratulations to the 2023 JCP-DCP Future of Chemical Physics Lectureship Winner,
@FangLiu_Emory
! Learn more about Dr. Liu and the lectureship at
#F23MRS
@AIP_Publishing
Booth 817 or visit
Mirror, mirror on the wall, do hydrogen abstraction rates under vibrational strong coupling change at all? Find out the answer in this most recent paper!
@TheWeichmanLab
@PrincetonChem
@MarissaWeichman
Learn more ๐
Editors Choice 2021๐
The authors show how Monte Carlo simulations can be used to predict if a
#protein
undergoes macroscopic phase separation or finite aggregation during liquid-liquid phase separations.
@RanaUshnish
@brangwynnelab
#polymers
#RNA
Let's phase it, states of matter matter. This perspective explores how phase diagrams can be determined computationally using both traditional and machine-learning methodsโand why one might bother.
@pinyuchew
@ChemCambridge
@Cambridge_Uni
Liangyi Chen, Zifan Ma, & Joseph Fournier
@WashUChem
demonstrate frequency-resolved ultrafast transient vibrational action spectroscopy of dilute molecular ion ensembles in this JCP cover feature - read it here!
David Manolopoulos, JCP Deputy Editor and Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, wishes the journal a Happy 90th Birthday ๐ and shares what upcoming initiatives he is excited about.
@OxfordChemistry
Last week's JCP cover is an excellent resource for researchers working on new methods to rank polymorphs of molecular crystals - ๐ great work from Flaviano Della Pia,
@AZen3
, Dario Alfรจ, &
@icegroupcam
@ChemCambridge
Read it here:
Interested in path sampling techniques for molecular simulations? Check out this practical guide to applying transition interface sampling and forward flux sampling to complex systems!
Great cover article from
@grisell832
,
@SarupriaS
,
@SAMPELatUMN
All excellent talks in the
@ACSPHYSDivision
award session and more to come!
@TimLian5
gets to enjoy his face cupcake before his upcoming talk at 5:25pm in S405a
#ACSFall2022
Check out NQCDynamics.jl, a software written in
#JuliaLang
that caters for prototyping of new methods as well production simulations for nonadiabatic quantum classical dynamics in the condensed phase. Nice work from
@compsurfchem
(
@warwickchem
)!
The Journal of Chemical Physics is a proud sponsor of the
@cecamEvents
&
@jncasr
conference, MD
@60
, celebrating the 60th anniversary of molecular dynamics and A. Rahman's pioneering work in Phys Rev!
#CECAM
The MD
@60
Conference has started today in Bengalore, India!
4 exciting days to celebrate the 60 years of the pioneering paper โCorrelations in the Motions of Atoms in Liquid Argonโ by A. Rahman!
โก๏ธ
co-organised with
@jncasr
Liu and coworkers compute equilibrium free energy surfaces for molecular systems at any temperature within a wide range by combining umbrella sampling with a non-equilibrium dissipative approach.
@glenhocky
@grantrotskoff
Learn more ๐
Geoffrey Monet, Marie-Laure Bocquet, & Lydรฉric Bocquet bring us a very interesting paper introducing a methodology to compute Onsager coefficients for fluids within nanochannels
@LP_ENS_
#nanofluidics
๐
๐ขCall For Papers
This Special Issue will be published to honor Brus on the occasion of his 80th birthday to highlight the ubiquity of low dimensional materials in contemporary topics in chemistry, physics, engineering, and biology.
Submit by December 31, 2023!
@sfeirlab
One of JCP's new tutorial articles and cover of the week!
#FRET
-lines describe single-molecule experiments on freely diffusing biomolecules, revealing biomolecular dynamics mechanisms at a glance from
@anders_barth
@thomaspeulen
@SMBLab
#FRETcommunity
Feldman & Hirshberg report a quadratic scaling bosonic PIMD algorithm, enabling simulations of ~1000 bosons in days rather than decades and eliminating almost all exchange effects overhead in PIMD.
@yotamfe
@barak_hirshberg
Learn more ๐
Thanks to a wonderful chemical physics community for joining JCP Editors Mark Ediger and
@rfrontiera
and Journal Manager
@Jendotherm
for a JCP lunch at
#APSMarch
!
Congratulations
@XYZ_Columbia
for the well-deserved honor!
JCP and
@AIP_Publishing
are proud to work with the Division of Chemical Physics
@APSphysics
to sponsor the Earle K. Plyler Prize.
Congratulations to Xiaoyang Zhu
@XYZ_Columbia
@ChemColumbia
!
He has been awarded the Earle K. Plyler Prize from
@APSphysics
for his research in the spectroscopy and dynamics of molecular condensed materials.
Pulse sequence design is part of the larger topic of the dynamic control of quantum systems. This work demonstrates ultra-robust excitation of nuclear singlet order via symmetry-based sequences.
@ma_sabba
@LevittGroup
@unisouthampton
Machine Learning Potentials have become a powerful tool for large-scale atomistic simulations. In this tutorial we describe their training illustrated by high-dimensional neural network potentials.
A transition-path-informed collective variable, designed through deep learning, leads to efficient and accurate prediction of thermodynamics and kinetics of molecular rare events.
We are delighted to welcome a new Associate Editor, Prof. Jun Cheng, to our Editorial Board!
Dr. Cheng is a Professor at Xiamen University where his group focuses on computational
#electrochemistry
and theoretical
#catalysis
.
#compchem
The 2021 JCP Best Paper by an Emerging Investigator awards were announced earlier this year - read more about the prize-winning articles from Yoav Green and Andrew Musser!
#ACSFall2022
Please welcome the newest JCP Associate Editor, Prof. Deli Wang! Deli is a Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and her research focuses on the rational design of
#nanomaterials
for
#energy
conversion and storage.
RC Flow: A normalizing flow-based approach for discovering reaction coordinates of molecular systems, enabling reduced kinetics of reaction coordinates to adhere to simple Brownian dynamics.
We use differentiable simulations to train machine learned interatomic potentials from radial distribution functions, opening a new avenue to derive force fields from experimental data.
@RGBLabMIT
@JDietschreit
2021 Editor's Choice highlight๐
Tim Gould (
@timgould_scienc
) & Leeor Kronik provide a rigorous derivation of exact generalized Kohn-Sham theory for ensemble DFT. They cover the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of the theory!
Read it here:
Selected as a 2021 Editors Choice, Nilsson, Beck, and
@JustinSambur
mapped out emissive defect sites in semiconductor
#nanocrystals
using energy transfer measurements in this fascinating article๐
Congrats
@samburgroup
!
@csu_chemistry
Read it here:
Cover of the weekโ๏ธ
Nancy Makri et al.
@ChemistryUIUC
apply fully quantum path integral
#simulations
to reveal intricate cascades of excitation energy relaxation between rings in the
#bacterial
LH2 complex of Rhodopseudomonas molischianum.
Don't miss this Editor's Pick from
@johnsontheochem
& coworkers
@ChimieUL
: Density matrices of closed-shell geminals were computed with the pairs, giving an analogue of Wickโs theorem.
#compchem
We're excited to share the wonderful news that Deputy Editor Angelos Michaelides (
@icegroupcam
@ChemCambridge
) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Congratulations Angelos!
Mischa Bonn, JCP Deputy Editor and Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, with help from his students, wishes JCP a Happy 90th Birthday!
@BonnMischa
Nice Editor's pick here, Mark Maroncelli and team
@psu_chemistry
report a careful and comprehensive computational study of OH stretch IR line shapes of isolated water molecules in dipolar and ionic liquids
Open for submissions! We're very excited to be working with Guest Editors Liwei Chen,
@DukovicLab
, &
@KraussLabUR
to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Rosetti, Nakahara, & Brus report on quantum confinement in
#colloidal
#nanocrystals
.
Details here:
Kudos to
@JorgeACamGA
and
@ucsd_yuen
for the striking cover of the week! What great timing to overlap with SCOM 2023 - hope everyone is enjoying the conference so far!
Did we mention last week's great cover article yet?
This work comes from
@d_jasras
et al. (
@UCB_Chemistry
), who developed a unified, atomistic theory to describe
#excitons
and their nonradiative processes in semiconductor
#nanocrystals
.
Check it out!
๐ขCall For Papers
How accurate are excited state simulations? This Special Topic will feature the communityโs predictions around an upcoming cyclobutanone photochemistry experiment!
@toddjmartinez
@MarioBarbatti
@insilphotochem
Learn more:
#Editorschoice
2021๐
#Perovskite
-sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation is an emerging field with many remaining unknown parameters. The authors investigate the effect of the halide composition on the upconversion process.
@NienhausFSU
@ChemistryFsu
Highlight from
#ACSSpring2022
: Editor-in-Chief
@TimLian5
with
@HnchengA
and Hai-Lung Dai
@TempleUniv
at the awards banquet. Great to see friends in person and celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues!
This week's cover features work published in the 2023 Emerging Investigator collection!
Impressive modeling of stochastic gene expression by Yiling Wang, Zhenhua Yu,
@ramon_grima
, & Zhixing Cao (
@QuCHEE
)
Read it here:
2021 Editor's Choice highlight๐ excellent article from Sharon Hammes-Schiffer group
@YaleChem
& collaborators (
@QChemSoftware
) who calculate thermochemical properties of different systems using the nuclear-electronic orbital analytic Hessian.
#compchem
JCP Asscociate Editor and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mark Ediger, wishes JCP a Happy 90th Birthday! Hear about his experience with JCP as both an Associate Editor and a longtime author.
The stress tensor is essential to many scientific problems. We review calculation methods in molecular dynamics, highlight its non-uniqueness at the nanoscale, and explore future directions.
@KaihangS
@edwardsmith999
A Perspective written by Mizutani and Mizuno provides an overview of studies on vibrational energy flow in proteins, including future perspectives for both methodologies and applications.
Importing the mode-coupling theory from liquids to crystals enabled us to construct an exact, fully anharmonic theory of lattice dynamics, which works for both classical and quantum systems
Check out the PHYS symposium, organized by The Journal of Chemical Physics Associate Editor David Reichman, "In Honor of Gregory Voth's 65th birthday: from
#quantumdynamics
to ultra course-graining, and everything in between" March 17-20 in Room R06.
#ACSSpring2024
Learn more ๐
Featured on the cover this week is work led by Sumit Sinha (
@Sinhon2030
) and Dave Thirumalai (
@davethirum
)
@UTChemistry
They provide interesting insight into the importance and origin of memory effects in informing cell dynamics - check it out!
Researchers developed a theory for how crosslinks in polymer networks affect penetrant diffusivity, and key role of activated segmental dynamics.
@IllinoisMatSE
@ChBEIllinois
@SingLabUIUC
Catalysts are important for industrial chemistry. Now 2D-IR spectroscopy can study them in their solid form, offering a deeper view of these types of materialsโ vibrational spectra.
@CLF_STFC
New Editor's Pick online! Researchers at
@unisouthampton
demonstrate how cross-correlated spin relaxation leads to asymmetric line broadening in
#NMR
spectra of near-equivalent spin-1/2 pairs.
#NMRchat
Chao Zhang, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Uppsala University, wishes JCP a Happy 90th Birthday, and speaks to JCP's ability to unite the physical chemistry community across the globe!
Another warm congratulations to the 2022 JCP Emerging Investigator Best Paper Winner,
@ChengBingqing
, for her paper: Computing chemical potentials of solutions from structure factors! Come by
#F23MRS
Booth 817 to learn more about the award
๐
Ab initio molecular simulations suggest that previous pioneering experiments relating water's liquid-liquid transition to the shape of the melting lines of ice polymorphs may require reinterpretation.
@PiaggiPablo
@tgartner_3
@CcscCsi
@PrincetonChem
Does chemistry need more physics?
This Featured article by Sunaga, Salman, & Saue considers the effect of quantum
#electrodynamics
(
#QED
) on the structure and reactivity of molecules.
@LCPQ_UMR5626
Cover of the week๐
Researchers describe an exciting new tool for studying molecular systems in solution or other condensed-phase environments with
#singlemolecule
sensitivity.
@ChemTokmakoff
@UChiChemistry
Have a paper in the works related to the gelation of
#colloidal
gels? Considering submitting to our open Special Topic collection with Guest Editors
@TM_Truskett
,
@DeliaMilliron
, and Ryan Jadrich!
Submission deadline: August 14, 2022
To learn more:
Great cover with art credit to Paul Morris
๐๐
@CoryMSimon
and coworkers (
@EngineeringOSU
) describe a
#machinelearning
model (SVM) to classify the toxicity of pesticides to bees.
Check it out!
Have a great paper ready for submission using
#plasmonic
#nanostructures
for
#energy
conversion?
Consider submitting to our Special Topic (deadline just extended to June 6)!
Read more here:
2021 Editor's Choice ๐
Here, Yihan Shao & colleagues propose an implementation that uses dimensionless amplitudes for describing the
#photonic
contributions to QED-TDDFT electronโphoton eigenstates.
#DFT
@UOkChemBiochem
Check it out!