Room-temperature ionic liquids are a class of non-molecular ionic solvents with low melting points. Their properties have the potential to be especially useful as stationary phases in gas-liquid chromatography (GLC). A series of common ionic liquids were evaluated as GLC stationary phases. It was found that many of these ionic liquids suffer from low thermal stability and possess unfavorable re...

Empirical force field-based molecular simulations can provide valuable atomistic-level insights into protein-surface interactions in aqueous solution. While the implicit treatment of solvation effects is desired as a means of improving simulation efficiency, existing implicit solvent models were primarily developed for the simulation of peptide or protein behavior in solution alone, and thus ma...

Simplified models and empirical potentials are being increasingly used for the analysis of proteins, frequently augmenting or replacing molecular mechanics approaches. Recent folding simulations have employed potentials that, in addition to terms assuring proper polypeptide geometry, include only two noncovalent effects-hydrogen bonding and hydrophobicity, with extremely simple approximations t...

Recently molecular activity of dimetridazole (DMZ) gained interested due to medical applications. In this study, a computational investigation the solvent impact on solvation free energy, dipole moments, polarizability, hyper-polarizability and characteristic atomic properties; hardness softness quality, chemical potential, electronegativity electrophilicity have been accounted for DMZ. All for...

Piperine is a natural cytotoxic agent aware of various therapeutic acts. The aim this study to look into the effects solvent polarity on solvent-free energy, dipole moment, polarizability, and hyper-polarizability first order, as well molecular properties including chemical hardness softness, potential, electronegativity, electrophilicity index, in order gain better understanding its reactivity...

Surface heterogeneity affects significantly wetting and adhesion properties. However, most of the theories and simulation methods of calculating solid-fluid interactions assume a standard thermodynamic model of the Gibbs' dividing solid-fluid interface, which is molecularly smooth. This assumption gives rise to a layering of the fluid phase near the surface that is displayed in oscillating dens...

The solvation model proposed by Fattebert and Gygi [J. Comput. Chem. 23, 662 (2002)] and Scherlis et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 124, 074103 (2006)] is reformulated, overcoming some of the numerical limitations encountered and extending its range of applicability. We first recast the problem in terms of induced polarization charges that act as a direct mapping of the self-consistent continuum dielectri...

Entropy bounds render quantum corrections to the cosmological constant Λ finite. Under certain assumptions, the natural value of Λ is of order the observed dark energy density ∼ 10 −10 eV 4 , thereby resolving the cosmological constant problem. We note that the dark energy equation of state in these scenarios is w ≡ p/ρ = 0 over cosmo-logical distances, and is strongly disfavored by observation...

We show that in the framework of the classical general relativity the presence of a positive cosmo-logical constant implies the existence of a minimal mass and of a minimal density in nature. These results rigorously follow from the generalized Buchdahl inequality in the presence of a cosmological constant.