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An alternative methodology to assess the quality of empirical potentials for small gold clusters (2015)
Journal Article
Mancera, L. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2015). An alternative methodology to assess the quality of empirical potentials for small gold clusters. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1067(September), 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2015.05.026

We present a methodology based on local comparisons of potential energy surfaces (PES) in order to assess the quality of empirical potentials. We compare five typical empirical potentials using a criterion that shows which of these potentials resembl... Read More about An alternative methodology to assess the quality of empirical potentials for small gold clusters.

Super hydrophobic SAM modified electrodes for enhanced current limiting properties in intrinsic conducting polymer surge protection devices (2015)
Journal Article
Jabarullah, N. H., Verrelli, E., Mauldin, C., Navarro, L. A., Golden, J. H., Madianos, L. M., & Kemp, N. T. (2015). Super hydrophobic SAM modified electrodes for enhanced current limiting properties in intrinsic conducting polymer surge protection devices. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 31(22), 6253-6264. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00686

Surface interface engineering using superhydrophobic gold electrodes made with 1-dodecanethiol self-assembled monolayer (SAM) has been used to enhance the current limiting properties of novel surge protection devices based on the intrinsic conducting... Read More about Super hydrophobic SAM modified electrodes for enhanced current limiting properties in intrinsic conducting polymer surge protection devices.

Experimental neutron capture data of 58Ni from the CERN n_TOF facility (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Žugec, P., Barbagallo, M., Colonna, N., Bosnar, D., Altstadt, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Bécares, V., Bečvář, F., Belloni, F., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Boccone, V., Brugger, M., Calviani, M., Calviño, F., Cano-Ott, D., Carrapiço, C., Cerutti, F., Chiaveri, E., …Wright, T. Experimental neutron capture data of 58Ni from the CERN n_TOF facility

The neutron capture cross section of 58 Ni was measured at the neutron time of flight facility n-TOF at CERN, from 27 meV to 400 keV neutron energy. Special care has been taken to identify all the possible sources of background, with the so-called ne... Read More about Experimental neutron capture data of 58Ni from the CERN n_TOF facility.

Constraining the 12C+12C fusion cross section for astrophysics (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bucher, B., Fang, X., Tang, X., Tan, W., Almaraz-Calderon, S., Alongi, A., Ayangeakaa, A., Beard, M., Best, A., Browne, J., Cahillane, C., Couder, M., Dahlstrom, E., Davies, P., DeBoer, R., Kontos, A., Lamm, L., Long, A., Lu, W., Lyons, S., …Wiescher, M. Constraining the 12C+12C fusion cross section for astrophysics

The 12 C+ 12 C reaction is one of the single most important nuclear reactions in astrophysics. It strongly influences late evolution of massive stars as well as the dynamics of type Ia supernovae and x-ray superbursts. An accurate estimation of the c... Read More about Constraining the 12C+12C fusion cross section for astrophysics.

Nucleosynthesis simulations for the production of the p-nuclei 92Mo and 94Mo in a Supernova type II model (2015)
Journal Article
Göbel, K., Glorius, J., Koloczek, A., Pignatari, M., Reifarth, R., Schach, R., & Sonnabend, K. (2015). Nucleosynthesis simulations for the production of the p-nuclei 92Mo and 94Mo in a Supernova type II model. EPJ Web of Conferences, 93, 03006. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159303006

We present a nucleosynthesis sensitivity study for the γ-process in a Supernova type II model within the NuGrid research platform. The simulations aimed at identifying the relevant local production and destruction rates for the p-nuclei of molybdenum... Read More about Nucleosynthesis simulations for the production of the p-nuclei 92Mo and 94Mo in a Supernova type II model.

Understanding of matrix embedding: a theoretical spectroscopic study of CO interacting with Ar clusters, surfaces and matrices (2015)
Journal Article
Mahjoubi, K., Benoit, D. M., Jaidane, N.-E., Al-Mogren, M. M., & Hochlaf, M. (2015). Understanding of matrix embedding: a theoretical spectroscopic study of CO interacting with Ar clusters, surfaces and matrices. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 17(26), 17159-17168. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp01672j

Through benchmark studies, we explore the performance of PBE density functional theory, with and without Grimme's dispersion correction (DFT-D3), in predicting spectroscopic properties for molecules interacting with rare gas matrices. Here, a periodi... Read More about Understanding of matrix embedding: a theoretical spectroscopic study of CO interacting with Ar clusters, surfaces and matrices.

Interaction between colloidal particles on an oil-water interface in dilute and dense phases (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parolini, L., Law, A. D., Maestro, A., Buzza, D. M. A., & Cicuta, P. Interaction between colloidal particles on an oil-water interface in dilute and dense phases

The interaction between micron-sized charged colloidal particles at polar/non-polar liquid
interfaces remains surprisingly poorly understood for a relatively simple physical chemistry
system. By measuring the pair correlation function g(r) for differ... Read More about Interaction between colloidal particles on an oil-water interface in dilute and dense phases.

Tracking Cluster Debris (TraCD) – I. Dissolution of clusters and searching for the solar cradle (2015)
Journal Article
Moyano Loyola, G. R., Flynn, C., Hurley, J. R., & Gibson, B. K. (2015). Tracking Cluster Debris (TraCD) – I. Dissolution of clusters and searching for the solar cradle. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(4), 4443-4457. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv550

The capability to reconstruct dissolved stellar systems in dynamical and chemical space is a key factor in improving our understanding of the evolution of the Milky Way. Here we concentrate on the dynamical aspect and given that a significant portion... Read More about Tracking Cluster Debris (TraCD) – I. Dissolution of clusters and searching for the solar cradle.

Sensitivity of nonlinear photoionization to resonance substructure in collective excitation (2015)
Journal Article
Mazza, T., Karamatskou, A., Ilchen, M., Bakhtiarzadeh, S., Rafipoor, A. J., O’Keeffe, P., Kelly, T. J., Walsh, N., Costello, J. T., Meyer, M., & Santra, R. (2015). Sensitivity of nonlinear photoionization to resonance substructure in collective excitation. Nature communications, 6(1), 6799-1-6799-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7799

Collective behaviour is a characteristic feature in many-body systems, important for developments in fields such as magnetism, superconductivity, photonics and electronics. Recently, there has been increasing interest in the optically nonlinear respo... Read More about Sensitivity of nonlinear photoionization to resonance substructure in collective excitation.

Polarization and mutual coupling effects in aluminum nanoantenna arrays (2015)
Journal Article
Dorh, N., Stokes, J., & Cryan, M. J. (2015). Polarization and mutual coupling effects in aluminum nanoantenna arrays. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 32(4), 721-729. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.32.000721

This paper uses finite-difference time-domain modeling to study the impact of varying the polarization of the point source(s) on both a single aluminum dipole nanoantenna and a 2×2 array. Starting with the single dipole nanoantenna, this paper demons... Read More about Polarization and mutual coupling effects in aluminum nanoantenna arrays.

Accurate and convergent T-matrix calculations of light scattering by spheroids (2015)
Journal Article
Somerville, W., Auguié, B., & Le Ru, E. (2015). Accurate and convergent T-matrix calculations of light scattering by spheroids. Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer, 160, 29-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2015.03.020

The convergence behavior of the T-matrix method as calculated by the extended boundary condition method (EBCM) is studied, in the case of light scattering by spheroidal particles. By making use of a new formulation of the EBCM integrals specifically... Read More about Accurate and convergent T-matrix calculations of light scattering by spheroids.

The IGIMF and other IMFs in dSphs: the case of Sagittarius (2015)
Journal Article
Vincenzo, F., Matteucci, F., Recchi, S., Calura, F., McWilliam, A., & A. Lanfranchi, G. (2015). The IGIMF and other IMFs in dSphs: the case of Sagittarius. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(2), 1327–1339. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv357

We have studied the effects of various initial mass functions (IMFs) on the chemical evolution of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr). In particular, we tested the effects of the integrated galactic initial mass function (IGIMF) on various predicted a... Read More about The IGIMF and other IMFs in dSphs: the case of Sagittarius.

The nature and role of the gold-krypton interactions in small neutral gold clusters (2015)
Journal Article
Mancera, L. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2015). The nature and role of the gold-krypton interactions in small neutral gold clusters. The journal of physical chemistry. A, 119(12), 3075-3088. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp513021q

© 2015 American Chemical Society. We investigate the nature and role of krypton embedding in small neutral gold clusters. For some of these clusters, we observe a particular site-dependent character of the Kr binding that does not completely follow t... Read More about The nature and role of the gold-krypton interactions in small neutral gold clusters.

Simple and accurate modelling of the gravitational potential produced by thick and thin exponential discs (2015)
Journal Article
Smith, R., Flynn, C., Candlish, G. N., Fellhauer, M., & Gibson, B. K. (2015). Simple and accurate modelling of the gravitational potential produced by thick and thin exponential discs. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448(3), 2934-2940. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv228

We present accurate models of the gravitational potential produced by a radially exponential disc mass distribution. The models are produced by combining three separate Miyamoto–Nagai discs. Such models have been used previously to model the disc of... Read More about Simple and accurate modelling of the gravitational potential produced by thick and thin exponential discs.

The imprints of the Galactic Bar on the Thick Disk with RAVE (2015)
Journal Article
Antoja, T., Monari, G., Helmi, A., Bienaymé, O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Famaey, B., Gibson, B. K., Grebel, E. K., Kordopatis, G., Munari, U., Navarro, J., Parker, Q., Reid, W. A., Seabroke, G., Antoja, T., Steinmetz, M., & Zwitter, T. (2015). The imprints of the Galactic Bar on the Thick Disk with RAVE. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 800(2), L32. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/800/2/l32

We study the kinematics of a local sample of stars, located within a cylinder of 500 pc radius centered on the Sun, in the RAVE data set. We find clear asymmetries in the v R v∞ velocity distributions of thin and thick disk stars: there are more sta... Read More about The imprints of the Galactic Bar on the Thick Disk with RAVE.

The influence of red spiral galaxies on the shape of the local K-band luminosity function (2015)
Journal Article
Bonne, N. J., Brown, M. J. I., Jones, H., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2015). The influence of red spiral galaxies on the shape of the local K-band luminosity function. The Astrophysical journal, 799(2), Article ARTN 160. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/2/160

We have determined K-band luminosity functions for 13,325 local universe galaxies as a function of morphology and color (for Ktot ≤ 10.75). Our sample is drawn from the Two Micron All Sky Survey Extended Source Catalog, with all sample galaxies havin... Read More about The influence of red spiral galaxies on the shape of the local K-band luminosity function.

Sulfur isotopic compositions of submicrometer SiC grains from the Murchison meteorite (2015)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Zinner, E., Gallino, R., Heger, A., Pignatari, M., & Lin, Y. (2015). Sulfur isotopic compositions of submicrometer SiC grains from the Murchison meteorite. The Astrophysical journal, 799(2), 156. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/799/2/156

We report C, Si, N, S, Mg-Al, and Ca-Ti isotopic compositions of presolar silicon carbide (SiC) grains from the SiC-rich KJE size fraction (0.5-0.8 μm) of the Murchison meteorite. One thousand one hundred thirteen SiC grains were identified based on... Read More about Sulfur isotopic compositions of submicrometer SiC grains from the Murchison meteorite.

The rich are different: evidence from the RAVE survey for stellar radial migration (2015)
Journal Article
Kordopatis, G., Binney, J., Gilmore, G., Wyse, R. F. G., Belokurov, V., McMillan, P. J., Hatfield, P., Grebel, E. K., Steinmetz, M., Navarro, J. F., Seabroke, G., Minchev, I., Chiappini, C., Bienaymé, O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Freeman, K. C., Gibson, B. K., Helmi, A., Munari, U., Parker, Q., …Zwitter, T. (2015). The rich are different: evidence from the RAVE survey for stellar radial migration. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(4), 3526-3535. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2726

Using the RAdial Velocity Experiment fourth data release (RAVE DR4), and a new metallicity calibration that will be also taken into account in the future RAVE DR5, we investigate the existence and the properties of super-solar metallicity stars ([M/H... Read More about The rich are different: evidence from the RAVE survey for stellar radial migration.

ABC triblock copolymer micelles: Spherical versus worm-like micelles depending on the preparation method (2015)
Journal Article
Ghasdian, N., Buzza, D. M. A., Fletcher, P. D. I., & Georgiou, T. K. (2015). ABC triblock copolymer micelles: Spherical versus worm-like micelles depending on the preparation method. Macromolecular rapid communications, 36(6), 528-532. https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201400621

Well-defined ABC triblock copolymers based on two hydrophilic blocks, A and C, and a hydrophobic block B are synthesized and their self-assembly behaviour is investigated. Interestingly, at the same solvent concentration, pH, and temperature, differe... Read More about ABC triblock copolymer micelles: Spherical versus worm-like micelles depending on the preparation method.

Time-delayed feedback control of the Dicke-Hepp-Lieb superradiant quantum phase transition (2015)
Journal Article
Kopylov, W., Emary, C., Schöll, E., & Brandes, T. (2015). Time-delayed feedback control of the Dicke-Hepp-Lieb superradiant quantum phase transition. New Journal of Physics, 17(1), 013040. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/1/013040

We apply the time-delayed Pyragas control scheme to the dissipative Dicke model via a modulation of the atom-field-coupling. The feedback creates an infinite sequence of non-equilibrium phases with fixed points and limit cycles in the primary superra... Read More about Time-delayed feedback control of the Dicke-Hepp-Lieb superradiant quantum phase transition.