Processes of Adsorption and Diffusion on Solid Surfaces
Summary of Lennard-Jones's 1932 paper introducing a potential energy surface model to unify physical and chemical adsorption, explaining the concept …
Paper Summaries
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The Number of Isomeric Hydrocarbons of the Methane Series
Summary of Henze and Blair's seminal 1931 JACS paper introducing a recursive method for calculating the number of structural isomers of alkanes, …
The Surface of Venus
A review of Basilevsky and Head's synthesis of Venus's geology and surface features, emphasizing radar imaging and tectonic history.
A Contrastive Learning Approach for Training Variational Autoencoder Priors
Summary of Dai et al.'s NeurIPS 2021 paper introducing Noise Contrastive Priors (NCPs), a novel method using noise contrastive estimation to train …
970 Million Druglike Small Molecules for Virtual Screening in the Chemical Universe Database GDB-13
A summary of the 2009 JACS paper by Blum and Reymond introducing the GDB-13 database, an enumeration of nearly one billion druglike small molecules …
3D Steerable CNNs: Learning Rotationally Equivariant Features in Volumetric Data
Summary of Weiler et al.'s 3D Steerable CNNs paper from NeurIPS 2018, which introduces SE(3)-equivariant convolutional networks for volumetric data …