This study provides the first direct experimental proof that rate oscillations in catalytic CO oxidation on supported Pt are driven by a periodic oxidation and reduction of the catalyst surface. By monitoring Bragg peak intensities in situ, the authors confirm the ‘oxide model’ over competing reconstruction or carbon models.
This methodological paper proposes a comprehensive pipeline to digitize chemical structure images. It achieves 97% reconstruction accuracy on benchmarks by combining a topology-preserving vectorizer with a chemical knowledge validation module.
This foundational work proposes the Stillinger-Weber potential, a 3-body interaction model that successfully stabilizes the diamond crystal structure of silicon and reproduces its liquid properties, overcoming the limitations of standard pair potentials.
This paper validates the homogeneous Evans method for calculating thermal conductivity against experimental Argon data. It demonstrates broad agreement across the phase diagram but identifies significant non-monotonic behavior and enhanced long-time tails near the critical point.
This seminal work validated the use of classical Molecular Dynamics for simulating liquids, revealing the ‘cage effect’ in velocity autocorrelation and establishing the standard predictor-corrector integration algorithms for N-body problems.
This molecular dynamics study reveals that adatom dimers on fcc(111) surfaces exhibit simultaneous multiple jumps at intermediate temperatures, migrating with mobility comparable to single adatoms.
A comprehensive 2020 analysis of the tautomerism problem in chemical databases, introducing 86 new tautomeric transformation rules and proposing algorithmic improvements for InChI V2 to recognize when different molecular representations are the same molecule in different tautomeric states.
A comprehensive 2013 review explaining how InChI emerged as the global standard for chemical structure identifiers, covering its history as a response to the Internet’s need for non-proprietary molecular linking, its governance under IUPAC, and the technical layers that ensure uniqueness across diverse chemical databases.
A 2025 Faraday Discussions paper describing the major overhaul of InChI v1.07 that fixed thousands of bugs, added robust support for inorganic and organometallic compounds, and modernized the system to align with FAIR data principles for chemistry databases.
A 2019 format specification introducing two complementary standards for chemical mixtures. Mixfile provides comprehensive mixture descriptions and MInChI provides compact canonical identifiers. This addresses the long-standing lack of standardized machine-readable formats for multi-component chemical systems.
Can we create a SMILES-like notation for nanomaterials? A collaborative workshop tackles the challenge of representing complex, multi-component nanomaterials with a proposed extension to the established InChI system.
A 2023 software update paper documenting major improvements to the SELFIES Python library, including architectural redesign using directed molecular graphs for faster performance, expanded chemical feature support, semantic constraints for validity, and user-friendly customization APIs that transform SELFIES from proof-of-concept into production-ready tool.