PHYSWednesday, August 22, 2007

7:00 PM-9:00 PM BCEC -- Exhibit Hall - B2, Poster
Physical Chemistry Poster Session
Theory: Electronic Structure, Kinetics, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics
Organizer:Gregory A. Voth
Design and modeling of n-channel organic semiconductors based on thiazolothiazole and its interface with metals
A. T. Yeates, Douglas S. Dudis
QM/MM study of vibrational energy relaxation of N-methylacetamide
Yong Zhang, John E. Straub
Relaxation in a PbSe and a CdSe quantum dots
Svetlana V. Kilina, Oleg V. Prezhdo
Reliable descriptions of phosphate hydrolysis reactions using QM/MM simulations with proper sampling
Yang Yang, Qiang Cui
Paper Withdrawn
Engineering entropy-driven reactions and networks catalyzed by DNA
David Yu Zhang, Andrew J. Turberfield, Bernard Yurke, Erik Winfree
Mixtures separation enabled by size matching between bis-onium cations and supramolecular bis-halides in self-assembled crystals
Pierangelo Metrangolo, Giuseppe Resnati, Yvan Carcenac, Tullio Pilati
Organophosphate functionalized Gd@C82 as MRI contrast agent
Chun-Ru Wang
Self-assembly of xanthene dyes templated by poly-L-lysine
Wei Xia, Amy Ferreira, Valentine Ivanov Vullev
The molecular mechanisms surrounding the allosteric activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase
Andrew Shih, Mark A. Lemmon, Ravi Radhakrishnan
13C NMR chemical shielding: Probing conformational behavior of 222 cryptand in condensed phases
Joe W. Su, Ronald R. Burnette
A hydration model of multicomponent solutions of electrolytes
Costas Panayiotou, Ioannis Tsivintzelis, Costas Tsioptsias, Giorgos Dritsas
A self-consistent Hubbard U approach to transition metal chemistry
Heather J. Kulik, Matteo Cococcioni, Nicola Marzari
Accounting for temperature fluctuations when modeling chemical reactions with KMC
Thomas C. Castonguay, Feng Wang
Adaptive force matching: A systematic way of generating high quality force fields from QM/MM calculations
Omololu Akin-Ojo, Feng Wang
Adsorption configurations and dissociative reactions of HN3 molecule on TiO2 anatase (101) surface
Jee-Gong Chang, Chuan Chen, Shin-Pon Ju, Ching-Sheng Chang, M. C. Lin, Jian-Ming Lu
An exploration of mechanisms for the transformation of 8-oxoguanine to guanidinohydantoin and spiroiminodihydantoin by density functional theory
Barbara H. Munk, Cynthia J. Burrows, H. B. Schlegel
Application of correlation energy contributions of bonding electron pairs in propane system
Weijiang Si, Shuping Zhuo
Assessing the role of sequence in the aggregation of human islet amyloid polypeptide
Eva K Rivera, John Straub
Asymptotic analysis and simulation of coagulation-fragmentation equations
Francisco Torrens, Gloria Castellano
Benchmark study of bond breaking in hydrocarbons by EOM-SF methods: Methane and ethane examples
Anna Golubeva, Anna I. Krylov
Benzene dimer interaction energies and solvent distributions for various solvents
Sunwoo Kang, Norio Yoshida, Shihai Yan, Fumio Hirata, Jin Yong Lee
Beta-hairpin folding with parallel-tempering and metadynamics
Giovanni Bussi, Francesco L. Gervasio, Alessandro Laio, Michele Parrinello
Calculation of quantum mechanical time correlation functions in liquids via the linearized semiclassical method
Francisco X. Vázquez, Eitan Geva
Carbon-13 NMR shifts of nonprotonated carbon atoms of aromatic amino acids in peptides and proteins
Dushyant Mukkamala, Yong Zhang, Haihong Sun, Feng Cheng, Eric Oldfield
Changes in configurational entropy on protein-ligand binding based on multiple molecular dynamics simulations
Joslyn Yudenfreund Kravitz, Benjamin J. Killian, Yuan-Ping Pang, Michael K. Gilson
Computational modeling of cyanine dyes for bioimaging
Jihoon Lumen Lee, Volkan Ediz, Gloria L Silva, Bruce A. Armitage, David J. Yaron
Computational scheme for numerically simulating for IR, VCD and 2-D IR photon echo spectra of Ubiquitin in water
Jun-Ho Choi, Hochan Lee, Kyung-Koo Lee, Seungsoo Hahn, Minhaeng Cho
Computational study of the reactions OH + O « HO2 « H + O2 and H + OH « H2O
Stig R. Sellevĺg, Yuri Georgievskii, James A. Miller
Computer simulations of nucleophilic reactions solvated by ionic liquids
Guilherme M. Arantes, Mauro C. C. Ribeiro
Delanauy tessellation of zeolite structures
David A. Carr, Iosif Vaisman, Estela Blaisten-Barojas
Density functional theory study of the Au (111) surface activation by benzene
Camilo Calderon, Feng Wang, Ashleigh E. Baber, E. Charles H. Sykes
DFT investigation of the electronic properties of nitrogen-doped TiO2 nanowire
Hong Wang, Hao Wang, James.P Lewis
Effect of dopant on perovskite proton conduction pathways
Leigh S. Foster, Katharyn M. Fletcher, Maria Gomez
Effect of the explicit account of atomic polarization on the dynamics of ethylene glycol dimethyl ether (GLYM) in aqueous solutions: Mechanism of the self-assembly in polyethylene-glycol-lipid mixtures
Subbotina Yulia, Sergei Noskov
Electron pair localization function: Toward a theoretical electrophilicity scale
Carlos Amador-Bedolla, Romelia Salomon-Ferrer, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Electron propagator calculations on peptide nucleic acid monomers
Rajeev R. Pandey, J. V. Ortiz, Roger K. Lake
Electronic structure of reduced and oxidized pyrrole oligomers and polypyrrole chains studied with density functional theory
Yafei Dai, Estela Blaisten-Barojas
Elucidation of the loosening mechanisms of polycation-DNA complexes induced by polyanions and polyampholytes through Monte Carlo simulations
Chwen-Yang Shew
Exploring quantum molecular dynamics approaches
Yoonjung Huh, Pierre-Nicholas Roy
Folding of a computationally redesigned zinc-binding domain
Seung-gu Kang, Jia Tang, Feng Gai, Jeffery G. Saven
Forcefields for Aβ simulations: TIP4P-Ew and Amber99SB
Nicolas Lux Fawzi, Teresa Head-Gordon
Franck-Condon analysis of ionization thresholds of C3H
Yimin Wang, Bastiaan J. Braams, Joel M. Bowman
Hybrid methods for accurate electronic structure calculations
Jonathan M. Mullin, Mark S. Gordon, Michael A. Collins
Hydrophobic potential of mean force as a solvation function for protein structure prediction
Matthew S. Lin, Nicolas Lux Fawzi, Teresa Head-Gordon
Improvement of length scaling in the hyperdynamics method
Soo Young Kim, Arthur F. Voter
Intermolecular interactions of charged protein-ligand complexes in the gas phase: A molecular dynamics study
Mikyung Seo, Elena N. Kitova, John S. Klassen, Pierre-Nicholas Roy
Investigation of slow preferential solvation dynamics via potential energy landscape theory
Crystal N. Nguyen, Richard M. Stratt
Isotope selectivity of adsorbents
Laura Fernandez, Lindiwe Ndebele, Maria Gomez
Kapitza resistance: A non-equilibrium molecular dynamics study
John Lyver IV, Estela Blaisten-Barojas
Modeling vibronic coherence in the condensed phase
Daniel Montemayor, David F. Coker
Molecular connection to rubber elasticity
Gary G. Hoffman
Molecular design of a crystal surface
Marija L Mihajlovic, Petar M Mitrasinovic
Molecular dynamics calculation of the static dielectric constant of ice Ih
Gerrick E Lindberg, Feng Wang
Molecular dynamics simulation of argon and propanol scattering off molten NaOH/KOH surfaces
Lorena Tribe, Timothy Lloyd, Michael Fox, Ryan Martin
Molecular dynamics simulations of cellulose degrading enzymes
Yolanda A. Small, James W. Davenport
Paper Withdrawn
Molecular power spectra from ab initio semiclassical dynamics
Michele Ceotto, Sule Atahan, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Molecular solvation in ionic liquids: Restocking the conceptual toolbox
Mark N. Kobrak
Moving Domain QM/MM method for accurate description of molecular electrostatic potentials in proteins
Lochana C. Menikarachchi, Jose A. Gascon
NBO analysis of the conformational and energetic properties of the 1:1 benzo-12-crown-4 LiClO4 complex in the gas and crystal phase
Ronald R. Burnette, Lingyun Xiao
Predictions of hole mobilities in organic nanoscale data storage materials
Matthew L. Rossi, Karl Sohlberg
Punching holes in density functional theory: Toward a novel nonlocal exchange-correlation functional
Leslie Vogt, Ali Najmaie, Carlos Amador-Bedolla, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Quantum dynamics on the quantum computer
Ivan Kassal, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Raman spectroscopy of ionic liquids derived from 1-buthyl-3-methyl imidazolium chloride and ZnCl2 or NbCl5
Joel C. Rubim, Melquizedeque B. Alves, Valério C. D. Soares, Vianney O. Santos Jr., Paulo A. Z. Suarez
Reaction of ground state carbon atom with diacetylene (HCCCCH) at ultra-low temperatures
C. Y. Huang, B. J. Sun, H. H. Kuo, K. T. Chen, H. L. Sun, C. H. Huang, M. F. Tsai, C. H. Kao, Y. S. Wang, L. G. Gao, R. I. Kaiser, A. H. H. Chang
Rotation/inversion study of CH3XH2 for group 5A elements [X = N, P, As, Sb]
Hae-Won Kim, Daniel Zeroka
Separation of overall rotation and internal motion in various Eckart generalized coordinates
Florence J. Lin
Silicon carbide nanostructures: A tight-binding approach
Anthony Patrick, Xiao Dong, Estela Blaisten-Barojas, Anwar Hasmy, Thomas C. Allison
Simulated second-quantized time evolution for molecular electronic structure with quantum computers
James D. Whitfield, Masoud Mohseni, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Spontaneous self-assembly mechanism of micelle formation
Kenny Nguyen, Niny Z. Rao, Preston B. Moore
Paper Withdrawn
Substituent effects in pi-pi stacking interactions: Performance of new DFT functionals and an experimental probe
Steven E. Wheeler, Anne J. McNeil, Timothy M. Swager, K. N. Houk
Symmetry-adapted cluster-configuration interaction theoretical study on the (E)- and (Z)-acetaldehyde N,N-dimethylhydrazone in methanol
Shih-I Lu
Temperature-dependent probabilistic roadmap: Algorithm for calculating variationally optimized conformational transition pathways
Haijun Yang, Hao Wu, Dawi Li, Li Han, Shuanghong Huo
The hidden radical nature of the acenes
Johannes Hachmann, Jonathan J. Dorando, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
The relationship between the ionic structure and viscosity in the room-temperature ionic liquids
Hualin Li, Murfat Ibrahim, Ismail Aberemi, Mark N. Kobrak
Theoretical characterization of diluted magnetic semiconductors: (Mn, Zn)O and (Co, Zn)O clusters
Ekaterina Badaeva, Yong Feng, Daniel R. Gamelin, Xiaosong Li
Theoretical studies of the potential energy surface of small biomolecules
Daniel P. Schofield, Kenneth D. Jordan, V. Alvin Shubert, Esteban Baquero, Timothy S. Zwier
Theoretical study of binding site preference in several [2]rotaxanes
Michael Foster, Karl Sohlberg
Theoretical study of the formation and destruction of H2D+ via reactions HD + H3+ ↔ H2 + H2D+
Zhen Xie, Joel M. Bowman
Thermodynamic characterization of RNA duplexes containing naturally occurring 1x2 nucleotide internal loops
Jaya Badhwar, Saradasri R. Karri, Cody K. Cass, Erica L. Wunderlich, Brent M. Znosko
To the phonon bottleneck effect in PbSe quantum dots
Svetlana V. Kilina, Dmitri S. Kilin, Oleg V. Prezhdo
Toward developing an ab initio theory for nuclei in thermodynamics
Kin-Yiu Wong
Turn structures of a model peptide system: Insights from circular dichroism
Kristine L. Carlson, Sara J. Bush, Sarah Vollmer, Kathryn A. Thomasson
Ultracold ytterbium atom-ion collisions
Peng Zhang, Alexander Dalgarno
Use of the solute partitioning model to predict or interpret Hofmeister effects on biopolymer processes
Laurel M. Pegram, M. Thomas Record Jr.
Vibrational energy flow within the dimeric hemoglobin Scapharca
Johnson K Agbo, Gia G Maisuradze, Khatuna Kachlishvili, Brian W Beck, David M. Leitner

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