752 results match your criteria: "Annual Review Of Physical Chemistry[Journal]"

Path Integral Simulations of Condensed-Phase Vibrational Spectroscopy.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; email:

Recent theoretical and algorithmic developments have improved the accuracy with which path integral dynamics methods can include nuclear quantum effects in simulations of condensed-phase vibrational spectra. Such methods are now understood to be approximations to the delocalized classical Matsubara dynamics of smooth Feynman paths, which dominate the dynamics of systems such as liquid water at room temperature. Focusing mainly on simulations of liquid water and hexagonal ice, we explain how the recently developed quasicentroid molecular dynamics (QCMD), fast-QCMD, and temperature-elevated path integral coarse-graining simulations (Te PIGS) methods generate classical dynamics on potentials of mean force obtained by averaging over quantum thermal fluctuations.

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Phenomenology of Intermediate Molecular Dynamics at Metal-Oxide Interfaces.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering Program, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA; email:

Reaction intermediates buried within a solid-liquid interface are difficult targets for physiochemical measurements. They are inherently molecular and locally dynamic, while their surroundings are extended by a periodic lattice on one side and the solvent dielectric on the other. Challenges compound on a metal-oxide surface of varied sites and especially so at its aqueous interface of many prominent reactions.

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Submicrometer Particle Impact Dynamics and Chemistry.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA; email:

Experimental studies of the collision phenomena of submicrometer particles is a developing field. This review examines the range of phenomena that can be observed with new experimental approaches. The primary focus is on single-particle impact studies enabled by charge detection mass spectrometry (CDMS) implemented using the Aerosol Impact Spectrometer (AIS) at the University of California, San Diego.

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3D Nanocrystallography and the Imperfect Molecular Lattice.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics; and STROBE, NSF Science and Technology Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA; email:

Crystallographic analysis relies on the scattering of quanta from arrays of atoms that populate a repeating lattice. While large crystals built of lattices that appear ideal are sought after by crystallographers, imperfections are the norm for molecular crystals. Additionally, advanced X-ray and electron diffraction techniques, used for crystallography, have opened the possibility of interrogating micro- and nanoscale crystals, with edges only millions or even thousands of molecules long.

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Dynamical Reweighting for Biased Rare Event Simulations.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dynamical reweighting techniques aim to recover the correct molecular dynamics from a simulation at a modified potential energy surface. They are important for unbiasing enhanced sampling simulations of molecular rare events. Here, we review the theoretical frameworks of dynamical reweighting for modified potentials.

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Multielectron Dynamics in the Condensed Phase: Quantum Structure-Function Relationships.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA; email:

Quantum information promises dramatic advances in computing last seen in the digital revolution, but quantum hardware is fragile, noisy, and resource intensive. Chemistry has a role in developing new materials for quantum information that are robust to noise, scalable, and operable in ambient conditions. While molecular structure is the foundation for understanding mechanism and reactivity, molecular structure/quantum function relationships remain mostly undiscovered.

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The ability of nanophotonic cavities to confine and store light to nanoscale dimensions has important implications for enhancing molecular, excitonic, phononic, and plasmonic optical responses. Spectroscopic signatures of processes that are ordinarily exceedingly weak such as pure absorption and Raman scattering have been brought to the single-particle limit of detection, while new emergent polaritonic states of optical matter have been realized through coupling material and photonic cavity degrees of freedom across a wide range of experimentally accessible interaction strengths. In this review, we discuss both optical and electron beam spectroscopies of cavity-coupled material systems in weak, strong, and ultrastrong coupling regimes, providing a theoretical basis for understanding the physics inherent to each while highlighting recent experimental advances and exciting future directions.

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Machine Learning of Reactive Potentials.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; email:

In the past two decades, machine learning potentials (MLPs) have driven significant developments in chemical, biological, and material sciences. The construction and training of MLPs enable fast and accurate simulations and analysis of thermodynamic and kinetic properties. This review focuses on the application of MLPs to reaction systems with consideration of bond breaking and formation.

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Rigorous Progress in Coarse-Graining.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; email:

Low-resolution coarse-grained (CG) models provide remarkable computational and conceptual advantages for simulating soft materials. In principle, bottom-up CG models can reproduce all structural and thermodynamic properties of atomically detailed models that can be observed at the resolution of the CG model. This review discusses recent progress in developing theory and computational methods for achieving this promise.

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Large strides have been made in designing an ever-increasing set of modern organic materials of high functionality and thus, often, of high complexity, including semiconducting polymers, organic ferroelectrics, light-emitting small molecules, and beyond. Here, we review how broadly applied thermal analysis methodologies, especially differential scanning calorimetry, can be utilized to provide unique information on the assembly and solid-state structure of this extensive class of materials, as well as the phase behavior of intrinsically intricate multicomponent systems. Indeed, highly relevant insights can be gained that are useful, e.

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Enhanced Sampling with Machine Learning.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; email:

Article Synopsis
  • Molecular dynamics (MD) allows for detailed studies of physical systems but faces challenges with long timescales, prompting the need for enhanced sampling methods to better explore different configurations.
  • The integration of machine learning (ML) techniques into enhanced sampling has emerged as a promising solution, leveraging data-driven approaches and synergies between ML and MD.
  • This review examines the intersection of ML and MD, detailing successful strategies like dimensionality reduction and reinforcement learning, while also addressing current challenges and open questions in this emerging field.
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Chemical Kinetics in Microdroplets.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA; email:

Micrometer-sized compartments play significant roles in driving heterogeneous transformations within atmospheric and biochemical systems as well as providing vehicles for drug delivery and novel reaction environments for the synthesis of industrial chemicals. Many reports now indicate that reaction kinetics are accelerated under microconfinement, for example, in sprays, thin films, droplets, aerosols, and emulsions. These observations are dramatic, posing a challenge to our understanding of chemical reaction mechanisms with potentially significant practical consequences for predicting the complex chemistry in natural systems.

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Single-Macromolecule Studies of Eukaryotic Genomic Maintenance.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Genomes are self-organized and self-maintained as long, complex macromolecules of chromatin. The inherent heterogeneity, stochasticity, phase separation, and chromatin dynamics of genome operation make it challenging to study genomes using ensemble methods. Various single-molecule force-, fluorescent-, and sequencing-based techniques rooted in different disciplines have been developed to fill critical gaps in the capabilities of bulk measurements, each providing unique, otherwise inaccessible, insights into the structure and maintenance of the genome.

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Phase Transitions in Organic and Organic/Inorganic Aerosol Particles.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; email:

The phase state of aerosol particles can impact numerous atmospheric processes, including new particle growth, heterogeneous chemistry, cloud condensation nucleus formation, and ice nucleation. In this article, the phase transitions of inorganic, organic, and organic/inorganic aerosol particles are discussed, with particular focus on liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). The physical chemistry that determines whether LLPS occurs, at what relative humidity it occurs, and the resultant particle morphology is explained using both theoretical and experimental methods.

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Prebiotic Astrochemistry from Astronomical Observations and Laboratory Spectroscopy.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Astronomy, and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; email:

The discovery of more than 200 gas-phase chemical compounds in interstellar space has led to the speculation that this nonterrestrial synthesis may play a role in the origin of life. These identifications were possible because of laboratory spectroscopy, which provides the molecular fingerprints for astronomical observations. Interstellar chemistry produces a wide range of small, organic molecules in dense clouds, such as NHCOCH, CHOCH, CHCOOCH, and CH(OH)CHO.

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Oxygenic Photosynthesis in Far-Red Light: Strategies and Mechanisms.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; email:

Oxygenic photosynthesis, the process that converts light energy into chemical energy, is traditionally associated with the absorption of visible light by chlorophyll molecules. However, recent studies have revealed a growing number of organisms capable of using far-red light (700-800 nm) to drive oxygenic photosynthesis. This phenomenon challenges the conventional understanding of the limits of this process.

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Cell membranes are incredibly complex environments containing hundreds of components. Despite substantial advances in the past decade, fundamental questions related to lipid-lipid interactions and heterogeneity persist. This review explores the complexity of lipid membranes, showcasing recent advances in vibrational spectroscopy to characterize the structure, dynamics, and interactions at the membrane interface.

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Photon Upconversion at Organic-Inorganic Interfaces.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; email:

Photon upconversion is a process that combines low-energy photons to form useful high-energy photons. There are potential applications in photovoltaics, photocatalysis, biological imaging, etc. Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are promising for the absorption of these low-energy photons due to the high extinction coefficient of QDs, especially in the near infrared (NIR).

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Atmospheric aerosols facilitate reactions between ambient gases and dissolved species. Here, we review our efforts to interrogate the uptake of these gases and the mechanisms of their reactions both theoretically and experimentally. We highlight the fascinating behavior of NO in solutions ranging from pure water to complex mixtures, chosen because its aerosol-mediated reactions significantly impact global ozone, hydroxyl, and methane concentrations.

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By superlocalizing the positions of millions of single molecules over many camera frames, a class of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods known as single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) has revolutionized how we understand subcellular structures over the past decade. In this review, we highlight emerging studies that transcend the outstanding structural (shape) information offered by SMLM to extract and map physicochemical parameters in living mammalian cells at single-molecule and super-resolution levels. By encoding/decoding high-dimensional information-such as emission and excitation spectra, motion, polarization, fluorescence lifetime, and beyond-for every molecule, and mass accumulating these measurements for millions of molecules, such multidimensional and multifunctional super-resolution approaches open new windows into intracellular architectures and dynamics, as well as their underlying biophysical rules, far beyond the diffraction limit.

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Dynamics of Anions: From Bound to Unbound States and Everything In Between.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom; email:

Gas-phase anions present an ideal playground for the exploration of excited-state dynamics. They offer control in terms of the mass, extent of solvation, internal temperature, and conformation. The application of a range of ion sources has opened the field to a vast array of anionic systems whose dynamics are important in areas ranging from biology to star formation.

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Aqueous Titania Interfaces.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; email:

Water-metal oxide interfaces are central to many phenomena and applications, ranging from material corrosion and dissolution to photoelectrochemistry and bioengineering. In particular, the discovery of photocatalytic water splitting on TiO has motivated intensive studies of water-TiO interfaces for decades. So far, a broad understanding of the interaction of water vapor with several TiO surfaces has been obtained.

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Reinvented: An Attosecond Chemist.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

June 2024

Departments of Chemistry and Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email:

Attosecond science requires a substantial rethinking of how to make measurements on very short timescales; how to acquire the necessary equipment, technology, and personnel; and how to build a set of laboratories for such experiments. This entails a rejuvenation of the author in many respects, in the laboratory itself, with regard to students and postdocs, and in generating funding for research. It also brings up questions of what it means to do attosecond science, and the discovery of the power of X-ray spectroscopy itself, which complements the short timescales addressed.

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Upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) compose a class of luminescent materials that utilize the unique wavelength-converting properties of lanthanide (Ln) ions for light-harvesting applications, photonics technologies, and biological imaging and sensing experiments. Recent advances in UCNP design have shed light on the properties of local color centers, both intrinsic and controllably induced, within these materials and their potential influence on UCNP photophysics. In this review, we describe fundamental studies of color centers in Ln-based materials, including research into their origins and their roles in observed photodarkening and photobrightening mechanisms.

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Ultrafast X-Ray Probes of Elementary Molecular Events.

Annu Rev Phys Chem

April 2023

Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California, USA; email:

Elementary events that determine photochemical outcomes and molecular functionalities happen on the femtosecond and subfemtosecond timescales. Among the most ubiquitous events are the nonadiabatic dynamics taking place at conical intersections. These facilitate ultrafast, nonradiative transitions between electronic states in molecules that can outcompete slower relaxation mechanisms such as fluorescence.

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