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HfMgW3O12 is a representative material with negative thermal expansion in the ABM3O12 (A = Zr, Hf; B = Mg, Mn, Zn, M = W, Mo) family. Herein we report a novel feature of hydration in HfMgW3O12 and its effect on the thermal expansion and its structures which have not been determined previously. It is found that hydrate formation in HfMgW3O12 occurs under ambient or moisture conditions and restrain the low energy librational and translational and even high energy bending and stretching motions of the polyhedra. The coefficient of thermal expansion could be tailored from negative to zero and positive depending on the hydration levels. The unhydrated HfMgW3O12 adopts an orthorhombic structure with space group Pna21 (33) without phase transition at least from 80 K to 573 K, but pressure-induced structure transition and amorphization are found to occur at about 0.19 Gpa and above 3.93 GPa, respectively.Pyruvic acid is abundant in the atmosphere and in seawater, being a decay product of living organisms. Although very small in size (10 atoms), pyruvic acid exhibits conformational complexity in the gas phase and in solution, which is reflected in the UV spectrum. The gas phase UV spectrum of pyruvic acid differs from the spectrum of pyruvic acid in water. The main atmospherically relevant absorption peak in the gas phase is blue shifted by about 0.43 eV (40 nm difference in the peak location) in water. The origin of the blue shift has not been established thus far. This paper aims at a microscopic understanding of the absorption spectrum of pyruvic acid in aqueous media by a combined experimental and theoretical approach. 1H NMR experiments were performed to reveal the contribution of the different conformers in solution as a function of pH. Computationally, hydrates of sizes up to 5 water molecules using two different species of pyruvic acid, the neutral acid and the anionic form were considered. Vertical excitation energies using the ADC(2) method (algebraic-diagrammatic construction through second order) of these structures provide insights into the blue shift of the atmospherically relevant absorption peak. Additionally, molecular dynamics simulation on MP2 (Møller-Plesset perturbation theory) ground state of small clusters of pyruvic acid with four water molecules were calculated and used in computing the vertical excitation spectrum along the dynamics. buy Ifenprodil This is found to describe very accurately the experimental spectrum. Overall, the results show that small hydrate models including the roles of both neutral and deprotonated speciated forms provide a good quantitative description and a microscopic interpretation of the experimental spectrum of pyruvic acid in aqueous solution.Correction for 'Density functional theory study of superoxide ions as impurities in alkali halides' by Alexander S. Tygesen et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, DOI 10.1039/d0cp00719f.Resonance states are characterized by an energy that is above the lowest dissociation threshold of the potential energy hypersurface of the system and thus resonances have finite lifetimes. All molecules possess a large number of long- and short-lived resonance (quasibound) states. A considerable number of rotational-vibrational resonance states are accessible not only via quantum-chemical computations but also by spectroscopic and scattering experiments. In a number of chemical applications, most prominently in spectroscopy and reaction dynamics, consideration of rotational-vibrational resonance states is becoming more and more common. There are different first-principles techniques to compute and rationalize rotational-vibrational resonance states one can perform scattering calculations or one can arrive at rovibrational resonances using variational or variational-like techniques based on methods developed for determining bound eigenstates. The latter approaches can be based either on the Hermitian (L2, square integrable) or non-Hermitian (non-L2) formalisms of quantum mechanics. This Perspective reviews the basic concepts related to and the relevance of shape and Feshbach-type rotational-vibrational resonance states, discusses theoretical methods and computational tools allowing their efficient determination, and shows numerical examples from the authors' previous studies on the identification and characterization of rotational-vibrational resonances of polyatomic molecular systems.There are relatively few methods available for discovering inhibitors of the protein-protein interactions (PPIs) that hold together homo-oligomers. We envisioned that Differential Scanning Fluorimetry (DSF) might be a versatile way to discover this type of inhibitor because oligomers are often more thermally stable than monomers. Using the homo-heptameric chaperonin, Hsp60, as a model, we screened ∼5000 diverse compounds in 384-well plates by DSF, revealing molecules that partially inhibited oligomerization. Because DSF does not require protein labeling or structural information, we propose that it could be a versatile way to uncover PPI inhibitors.Conformationally adaptive macrocycles possess multiple well-defined conformations through quickly flipping their aromatic sidewalls. The macrocycles combine the binding power of all the conformations. Upon binding a guest, one or a combination of conformations are selected to achieve the maximized binding affinity. In addition, the complex conformational network is responsive to changes in temperature or solvent. It has been demonstrated that these macrocycles have unique properties in chirality sensing, stimuli-responsive self-assembly, and molecular switches. In this tutorial review, we summarize recent advances on conformationally adaptive macrocycles with an emphasis on our own research. We believe that this class of macrocycles will have a bright future in supramolecular chemistry and beyond.The spreading of a liquid over a solid material is a key process in a wide range of applications. While this phenomenon is well understood when the solid is undeformable, its "soft" counterpart is still misunderstood and no consensus has been reached with regard to the physical mechanisms ruling the spreading of liquid drops over soft deformable materials. In this work we provide a theoretical framework, based on the nonlinear theory of discontinuities, to describe the behavior of a triple line on a soft material. We show that the contact line motion is opposed both by nonlinear localized capillary and visco-elastic forces. We give an explicit analytic formula relating the dynamic contact angle of a moving drop to its velocity for arbitrary rheology. We then specialize this formula to the experimentally relevant case of elastomers with the Chasset-Thirion (power-law) type of rheologies. The theoretical prediction is in very good agreement with experimental data, without any adjustable parameters. We then show that the nonlinear force balance presented in this work can also be used to recover classical models of wetting.
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