We investigate the interplay between microscopic structure, dynamics and phase transformations in materials using computer simulations and theory
water and solutions • ices • clathrates • crystallization • biological ice nucleation • amorphous ices • shear-driven transformations • silica • synthesis of zeolites and porous crystals • mesophases • fuel cell membranes • ion and water transport • water uptake • electrochemically generated nanobubbles • electrocatalysis • coarse-grained models • molecular dynamics • monte carlo • kinetic monte carlo
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Valeria Molinero
Distinguished Professor
Jack and Peg Simons Endowed Chair of Theoretical Chemistry
Recent Publications
Medium Density Amorphous Unveils Shear-Rate as a New Dimension in Water’s Phase Diagram
I. de Almeida Ribeiro, D. Dhabal, R. Kumar, S. Banik, S. Sankaranarayanan, and V. Molinero
PNAS (2024)
Interzeolite Transformation Through Cross-Nucleation: A Molecular Mechanisms for Seed-Assisted Synthesis
C. Chu-Jon, A. A. Bertolazzo, S. Banik, J. D. Rimer, S.K.R.S. Sankaranarayanan, and V. Molinero
JACS (2024)
Hierarchical Assembly and Environmental Enhancement of Bacterial Ice Nucleators
G. Renzer, I. de Almeida Ribeiro, H.-B. Guo, J. Fröhlich-Nowoisky, R. Berry, M. Bonn, V. Molinero, and K. Meister
PNAS (2024)
The Smallest Electrochemical Bubbles
E. D. Gadea*, Y. Perez Sirkin, V. Molinero*, D. A. Scherlis
PNAS (2024)
The Molinero research group gratefully acknowledges its current and past sponsors