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Nanoporous single-layer graphene is promising as an ideal membrane because of its extreme thinness, chemical resistance, and mechanical strength, provided that selective nanopores are successfully incorporated. However, screening and understanding the transport characteristics of the large number of possible pores in graphene are limited by the high computational requirements of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and the difficulty in experimentally characterizing pores of known structures. MD simulations cannot readily simulate the large number of pores that are encountered in actual membranes to predict transport, and given the huge variety of possible pores, it is hard to narrow down which pores to simulate. Here, we report alternative routes to rapidly screen molecules and nanopores with negligible computational requirement to shortlist selective nanopore candidates. Through the 3D representation and visualization of the pores' and molecules' atoms with their van der Waals radii using open-source software, we could identify suitable C-passivated nanopores for both gas- and liquid-phase separation while accounting for the pore and molecule shapes. The method was validated by simulations reported in the literature and was applied to study the mass transport behavior across a given distribution of nanopores. We also designed a second method that accounts for Lennard-Jones and electrostatic interactions between atoms to screen selective non-C-passivated nanopores for gas separations. Overall, these visualization methods can reduce the computational requirements for pore screening and speed up selective pore identification for subsequent detailed MD simulations and guide the experimental design and interpretation of transport measurements in nanoporous atomically thin membranes.Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) and dilutions thereof (mainly in H2O but also in many other non-aqueous solvents and co-solvent mixtures) have recently attracted great attention. It is well known that DES dilutions exhibit deviations from ideality. Interestingly, the treatment of DES as a mixture of two components or a pseudo-component is by no means trivial when determining deviations in density and, mainly, in viscosity. Herein, we studied aqueous dilutions of one of the most widely studied DES, this is, that composed of choline chloride and urea in a 12 molar ratio (e.g., ChCl2U). Using density and viscosity data reported in previous works, we calculated the excess molar volumes (VE) and excess viscosities (ln ηE) considering ChCl2U as either a mixture of two components or a pseudo-component, that is, taking the DES molecular weight as MChCl2U = fChClMChCl + fUMU = 86.58 g mol-1 (with fChCl = 1/3 and fU = 2/3) or as M* ChCl2U = MChCl + 2 MU = 259.74 g mol-1. We found that neither the sign of VE and VE* nor their evolution with temperature was influenced by the use of either MChCl2U or M* ChCl2U, and only the absolute magnitude of the deviation and the DES content (in wt. %) at which the minimum appears exhibited some differences. However, ln ηE and ln ηE* exhibited opposite signs, negative and positive, respectively. The odd achievement of negative ln ηE in aqueous dilutions of ChCl2U characterized by the formation of HB networks suggest the treatment of ChCl2U as a pseudo-component as more appropriate. Moreover, the role played by the presence of U in the evolution of ln ηE* with temperature was also discussed.It is pointed out that the unexpected result that the magnitude of the reversible work of cavity creation in ethylene glycol proves to be larger than that in water [I. Sedov and T. Magsumov, J. Chem. Phys. 153, 134501 (2020)] could be due to that (a) the density of the used computational model of this liquid is "significantly" larger than the experimental one and (b) the procedure adopted to perform the comparison among the different liquids is not "strictly" correct. It is also indicated that several lines of evidence suggest that the magnitude of the reversible work of cavity creation in water can be larger than that in ethylene glycol.Single-photon sources are required for quantum technologies and can be created from individual atoms and atom-like defects. Erbium ions produce single photons at low-loss fiber optic wavelengths, but they have low emission rates, making them challenging to isolate reliably. Here, we tune the size of gold double nanoholes (DNHs) to enhance the emission of single erbium emitters, achieving 50× enhancement over rectangular apertures previously demonstrated. This produces enough enhancement to show emission from single nanocrystals at wavelengths not seen in our previous work, i.e., 400 and 1550 nm. We observe discrete levels of emission for nanocrystals with low numbers of emitters and demonstrate isolating single emitters. We describe how the trapping time is proportional to the enhancement factor for a given DNH structure, giving us an independent way to measure the enhancement. This shows a promising path to achieving single emitter sources at 1550 nm.We examine the use of the truncated singular value decomposition and Tikhonov regularization in standard form to address ill-posed least squares problems Ax = b that frequently arise in molecular mechanics force field parameter optimization. We illustrate these approaches by applying them to dihedral parameter optimization of genotoxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adducts that are of interest in the study of chemical carcinogenesis. 2-Aminoethyl Utilizing the discrete Picard condition and/or a well-defined gap in the singular value spectrum when A has a well-determined numerical rank, we are able to systematically determine truncation and in turn regularization parameters that are correspondingly used to produce truncated and regularized solutions to the ill-posed least squares problem at hand. These solutions in turn result in optimized force field dihedral terms that accurately parameterize the torsional energy landscape. As the solutions produced by this approach are unique, it has the advantage of avoiding the multiple iterations and guess and check work often required to optimize molecular mechanics force field parameters.
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