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Transfer learning based on atomic feature extraction for the prediction of experimental <sup>13</sup>C chemical shifts 

Ivković, Žarko; Jover Modrego, Jesús; Harvey, Jeremy (Publication date: 2026-03-02)

Forecasting experimental chemical shifts of organic compounds is a long-standing challenge in organic chemistry. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have led to routines that surpass the accuracy of ab initio Density ...

Time-optimal control of a solid-state spin amidst dynamical quantum wind 

Albareda, Guillermo; Guo, Guang-Can; Sun, Fang-Wen; Dong, Yang; Jiang, Wang; Gao, Xue-Dong; Yu, Cui; Liu, Yong; Zhang, Shao-Chun; Chen, Xiang-Dong; Moreira, Ibério de Pinho Ribeiro; Bofill i Villà, Josep M.; Sentis, Gael; Ramos, Ramon (Publication date: 2026-01-22)

Time-optimal control holds promise across the full spectrum of quantum technologies, where the rapid generation of unitary gates and state transformations is crucial to mitigate decoherence effects. In practical scenarios, ...

On the role of dynamic electron correlation in non-orthogonal configuration interaction with fragments 

Sanchez-Mansilla, Aitor; Sousa Romero, Carmen; Kathir, R. K.; Broer, Ria; Straatsma, T. P.; de Graaf, Coen (Publication date: 2026-01-16)

Two different approaches have been implemented to include the effect of dynamic electron correlation in the Non-Orthogonal Configuration Interaction for Fragments (NOCI-F) method. The first is based on shifting the diagonal ...

Exploring the photoactive properties of promising MXenes for water splitting 

Ontiveros Cruz, Diego; Viñes Solana, Francesc; Sousa Romero, Carmen (Publication date: 2026-01-09)

The photoactive properties and effectiveness of a selected group of ten terminated MXenes—Sc2CT2, Y2CT2 (T = Cl, Br, S, and Se), Y2CI2 and Zr2CO2—has been deeply studied by means of density functional theory (DFT). Here ...

Computational Study of a Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of Fluoroalcohols from Alkylboranes and Ketones 

Gómez-Mudarra, Francisco A.; Aullón López, Gabriel; Jover Modrego, Jesús (Publication date: 2025-11-05)

Fluoroalcohols are a class of organic compounds containing one or more fluorine atoms together with an alcohol group in their molecular structure. These fluorinated species have a wide range of applications due to their ...

Determining the chemical ordering in nanoalloys by considering atomic coordination types 

Farris, Riccardo; Neyman, Konstantin M.; Bruix Fusté, Albert (Publication date: 2025-07-16)

The energetically most favorable chemical ordering of bimetallic nanoparticles can be characterized by combining global optimization algorithms and surrogate energy models. The latter approximate the energy of nanoalloys ...

Contrasting Metallic (Rh0) and Carbidic (2D-Mo2C MXene) Surfaces in Olefin Hydrogenation Provides Insights on the Origin of the Pairwise Hydrogen Addition 

Meng, Ling; Pokochueva, Ekaterina; Chen, Zixuan; Fedorov, Alexey; Viñes Solana, Francesc; Illas i Riera, Francesc; Koptyug, Igor V. (Publication date: 2025-07-24)

Kinetic studies are vital for gathering mechanistic insights into heterogeneously catalyzed hydrogenation of unsaturated organic compounds (olefins), where the Horiuti–Polanyi mechanism is ubiquitous on metal catalysts. ...

Ferrofluid-based bioink for 3d printed skeletal muscle tissues with enhanced force and magnetic response 

Fuentes Llanos, Judith; Guix Noguera, Maria; Cenev, Zoran M.; Bakenecker, Anna; Ruiz González, Noelia; Beaune, Grégory; Timonen, Jaakko V. I.; Sánchez Ordóñez, Samuel; Magdanz, Veronika (Publication date: 2025-08-01)

3D printing has emerged as a transformative technology in several manufacturing processes, being of particular interest in biomedical research for allowing the creation of 3D structures that mimic native tissues. The process ...

Binding of cholesterol to the N-terminal domain of the NPC1L1 transporter: Analysis of the epimerization-related binding selectivity and loop mutations 

Valdivia, Aitor; Luque Garriga, F. Xavier; Llabrés Prat, Salomé (Publication date: 2025-01-20)

Cholesterol is a fat-like substance with a pivotal physiological relevance in humans, and its homeostasis is tightly regulated by various cellular processes, including the import in the small intestine and the reabsorption ...

“On-The-Fly” Synthesis of Self-Supported LDH Hollow Structures Through Controlled Microfluidic Reaction-Diffusion Conditions 

Mattera, Michelle; Sorrenti, Alessandro; Gregorio Perpiñá, Lídia de; Oestreicher, Víctor; Sevim, Semih; Arteaga Barriel, Oriol; Chen, Xiang-Zhong; Pané, Salvador; Abellán, Gonzalo; Puigmartí-Luis, Josep (Publication date: 2025-04-29)

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are a class of functional materials that exhibit exceptional properties for diverse applications in areas such as heterogeneous catalysis, energy storage and conversion, and bio-medical ...

Kinetico-mechanistic insights into the photodynamic process of AuI complexes with the CNC6H4NNC6H5 (iso-Ph) azobenzene ligand 

Raïch Panisello, Ot; Jover Modrego, Jesús; Puigjaner, Cristina; Ferrer García, Montserrat; Martínez López, Manuel, 1957- (Publication date: 2025-10-17)

A family of neutral isocyanide monoazo AuI complexes [AuCl(iso-Ph)], [Au(C6F5)(iso-Ph)] and [Au(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]Cpy)(iso-Ph)] (iso-Ph being CN–C6H4–N[double bond, length as m-dash]N–Ph) and a closely related ...

A versatile luminescent probe for sensing and monitoring amyloid proteins 

Vázquez Bigas, Guillem; Espargaró Colomé, Alba; Caballero Hernández, Ana Belén; Di Pede Mattatelli, Ania; Busquets i Viñas, Ma. Antonia; Nawrot, Daria; Sabaté Lagunas, Raimon; Nicolás Galindo, Ernesto; Juárez Jiménez, Jordi; Gámez Enamorado, Patrick (Publication date: 2025-09-26)

A modified lysine residue containing an environment-sensitive moiety was prepared through a straightforward synthesis, and its fluorescent properties were examined. The new fluorescent sensor, DMN-BocK, can monitor amyloid ...

Ultrafast resonant interatomic coulombic decay induced by quantum fluid dynamics 

LaForge, A. C.; Michiels, R.; Ovcharenko, Y.; Ngai, Aaron; Escartín Esteban, José María; Berrah, N.; Callegari, C.; Clark, A.; Coreno, M.; Cucini, R.; Di Fraia, M.; Drabbels, M.; Fasshauer, E.; Finetti, P.; Giannessi, L.; Grazioli, C.; Iablonskyi, D.; Langbehn, B.; Nishiyama, T.; Oliver, V.; Piseri, P.; Plekan, Oksana; Prince, Kevin C.; Rupp, D.; Stranges, S.; Ueda, K.; Sisourat, N.; Eloranta, J.; Pi Pericay, Martí; Barranco Gómez, Manuel; Stienkemeier, F.; Möller, T.; Mudrich, M. (Publication date: 2022-02-18)

Interatomic processes play a crucial role in weakly bound complexes exposed to ionizing radiation; therefore, gaining a thorough understanding of their efficiency is of fundamental importance. Here, we directly measure the ...

Modeling nitrogen recovery and water transport in gas-permeable membranes 

Da Silva, C.; Serra Toro, Andreu; Pelizzaro, V.; Valentino, Francesco; Astals Garcia, Sergi; Mas i Pujadas, Francesc; Dosta Parras, Joan (Publication date: 2026-01-12)

This study presents a new modeling approach for nitrogen recovery in gas-permeable membrane (GPM) con- tactors, including both ammonia and water transport dynamics. A distinct feature of the model is its capacity to model ...

Modeling and subtleties of K-Ras and Calmodulin interaction 

Garrido, Eduardo; Lázaro, Juan; Jaumot i Pijoan, Montserrat; Agell i Jané, Neus; Rubio Martínez, Jaime (Publication date: 2020-01-22)

K-Ras, one of the most common small GTPases of the cell, still presents many riddles, despite the intense efforts to unveil its mysteries. Such is the case of its interaction with Calmodulin, a small acidic protein known ...

Spectral variability in phycocyanin cryptophyte antenna complexes is controlled by changes in the α‐polypeptide chains 

Corbella Morató, Marina; Cupellini, Lorenzo; Lipparini, Filippo; Scholes, Gregory D.; Curutchet Barat, Carles E. (Publication date: 2020-07-21)

Quantitative models of light harvesting in photosynthetic antenna complexes depend sensitively on the challenging determination of the relative site energies of the pigments. Here we analyze the basis of the light harvesting ...

Pharmacology and preclinical validation of a novel anticancer compound targeting PEPCK-M 

Aragó, Marc; Moreno Felici, Juan; Abás Prades, Sònia; Rodríguez Arévalo, Sergio; Hyrossová, Petra; Figueras, Agnes; Viñals Canals, Francesc; Pérez, Belén; Loza, María Isabel; Brea, José; Latorre, Pedro; Carrodeguas, Jose A.; García-Roves, Pablo M. (Pablo Miguel); Galdeano Cantador, Carlos; Ginex, Tiziana; Luque Garriga, F. Xavier; Escolano Mirón, Carmen; Perales Losa, Carlos (Publication date: 2021-02-26)

Background: Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) catalyzes the decarboxylation of oxaloacetate to phosphoenolpyruvate. The mitochondrial isozyme, PEPCK-M is highly expressed in cancer cells, where it plays a role in ...

Theoretical study of the mechanism of the hydrogen evolution reaction on the V2C MXene: Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects 

López, Martí; Exner, Kai S.; Viñes Solana, Francesc; Illas i Riera, Francesc (Publication date: 2025-03-14)

Both experimentally and theoretically, the MXene family has shown promising hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) capabilities. However, so far, the theoretical approach has been relying on the well-known thermodynamic descriptor, ...

MXgap: A MXene Learning Tool for Bandgap Prediction 

Ontiveros Cruz, Diego; Vela Llausí, Sergi; Viñes Solana, Francesc; Sousa Romero, Carmen (Publication date: 2026-01-07)

The increasing demand for clean and renewable energy has intensified the exploration of advanced materials for efficient photocatalysis, particularly for water splitting applications. Among these materials, MXenes, a family ...

Limitations of free energy diagrams to predict the catalytic activity: the reverse water gas shift reaction catalyzed by Ni/TiC 

Lozano-Reis, Pablo; Prats Garcia, Hèctor; Sayós Ortega, Ramón; Illas i Riera, Francesc (Publication date: 2026-01-23)

The temporal evolution at the catalyst surface is a result of an intricate interplay between all involved microscopic events such as adsorption, desorption, diffusion, and bond breaking/formation steps, and the interaction ...

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