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Here are a few of the scientific journal covers that feature outstanding research done at NERSC.  You can sort according to any of the headings below.

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Graphene Moves Toward Applications

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Hierarchically Porous Graphene as a Lithium-Air Battery Electrode. See also http://pubs.acs.org/NanoLett (2011) 11, 5071–5078

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Architectural Simulation for Exascale Hardware/Software Co-design

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Special Issue on CoDesign for Systems and Applications, Vladimir Getov, Adolfy Hoisie, and Harvey Wasserman, guest editors

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Moving Protons with Pendant Amines: Proton Mobility in a Nickel Catalyst for Oxidation of Hydrogen

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Does Nitric Acid Dissociate at the Aqueous Solution Surface?

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Dielectric Nanodroplets: Structure, Stability, Thermodynamics, Shape Transitions and Electrocrystallization in Applied Electric Fields

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Gyrokinetic particle-in-cell optimization on emerging multi- and manycore platforms

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doi:10.1016/j.parco.2011.02.001

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SSC: A tool for constructing libraries for systematic screening of conformers

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DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21774

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Understanding the Surface Potential of Water

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Atomistic Simulation of Water Percolation and Proton Hopping in Nafion Fuel Cell Membrane

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Accuracy of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Point Defects in Solids

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State-to-state quantum dynamics of the O(3P)+OH(2Π)→H(2S)+O2(3Σg) reaction

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J. Chem. Phys. 133, 054302 (2010);

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Barrier-free tunneling in a carbon heterojunction transistor

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Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 033102 (2010)

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Magnetic X-Points, Edge Localized Modes, and Stochasticity

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2010, Vol. 17 (6), 062505

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New and Efficient Poisson−Boltzmann Solver for Interaction of Multiple Proteins

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2010, Vol. 6 (7), pp. 2214–2224

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Phase Transitions in Nanoconfined Fluids: The Evidence from Simulation and Theory

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Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy

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Nature 464, 571-574 (25 March 2010) | doi:10.1038/nature08879

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Dynameomics: A Comprehensive Database of Protein Dynamics

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14 March 2010, Vol. 18 (4), pp. 423-435

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Resolving Velocity Space Dynamics in Continuum Gyrokinetics

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2010, Vol. 17 (3), 032106

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Tropical cyclones and permanent El Nino in the early Pliocene epoch

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Nature 463, 1066-1070 (25 February 2010) |

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Current Status of the AMOEBA Polarizable Force Field

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Methane Activation and Catalytic Ethylene Formation on Free Au2

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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 980 –983

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First Principles Simulation of the Bonding, Vibrational, and Electronic Properties of the Hydration Shells of the High-Spin Fe3+ Ion in Aqueous Solutions

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2010, Vol. 114 (5), pp. 2189–2200

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Effects of co-solvents on peptide hydration water structure and dynamics

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2010, Vol. 12 (2), pp. 393-405

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Low-Swirl Combustion: Experiments and Simulations Working Together

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2010, No. 16, Special Issue 2010, pp. 16

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Methanol Synthesis from H2 and CO2 on a Mo6S8 Cluster: A Density Functional Study

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J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114 (11), pp 3888–3895

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The Effect of Sudden Source Buoyancy Flux Increases on Turbulent Plumes

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10 September 2009, Vol. 635, pp. 137-169

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Computational challenges for nanostructure solar cells

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2009, Vol. 2, pp. 944-955

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Reconnecting Magnetic Fields

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September-October 2009, Vol. 97 (5), pp. 392

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An Assessment of Full Wave Effects on the Propagation and Absorption of Lower Hybrid Wave

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2009, Vol. 16 (7), 072502

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Large Fields for Smaller Facility Sources

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Summer 2009, Issue 13, pp. 13-21

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Growth of Carbon Structures on Stepped (211)Co Surfaces

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2009, Vol. 113 (35), pp. 15658–15666

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Characterization of Redox States of Ru(OH2)(Q)(tpy)2+ (Q = 3,5-di-tert-butyl-1,2-benzoquinone, tpy = 2,2':6',2''-terpyridine) and Related Species through Experimental and Theoretical Studies

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May 2009, Vol. 48 (10), pp. 4372-4383

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Molecular and Atomic Hydrogen Interactions with Au−Ir Near-Surface Alloys

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2009, Vol. 113 (4), pp. 1411–1417

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Computational Investigation of the First Solvation Shell Structure of Interfacial and Bulk Aqueous Chloride and Iodide Ions

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2009, Vol. 113 (13), pp. 4141–4146

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Molecular Structure and Dynamics in Thin Water Films at the Silica and Graphite Surfaces

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2008, Vol. 112 (35), pp. 13587–13599

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Contrasting Disease and Nondisease Protein Aggregation by Molecular Simulation

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2008, Vol. 41 (8), pp. 1037–1047

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Simulation of high-power electromagnetic wave heating in the ITER burning plasma

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July 2008, Vol. 15, 072513

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Improved Energy Selection of Nativelike Protein Loops from Loop Decoys

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2008, Vol. 4 (3), pp. 515–521

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Isomer Energy Differences for the C4H3 and C4H5 Isomers Using Diffusion Monte Carlo

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2008, Vol. 112 (10), pp. 2065–2068

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Atomistic Simulations of Hydrated Nafion and Temperature Effects on Hydronium Ion Mobility

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2007, Vol. 111 (25), pp. 7234–7244

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Characterization of intact subcellular bodies in whole bacteria by cryo-electron tomography and spectroscopic imaging

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July 2006, Vol. 223 (1), pp. 40–52

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Lattice strain effects on CO oxidation on Pt(111)

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2006, Vol. 8 (29), pp. 3369-3374

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A New Mechanism for Gravitational-Wave Emission in Core-Collapse Supernovae

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Phys. Rev. Lett. » Volume 96 » Issue 20

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Computational studies of molecular hydrogen binding affinities: The role of dispersion forces, electrostatics, and orbital interactions

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2006, Vol. 8 (12), pp. 1357-1370

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Numerical Simulation of a Laboratory-Scale Turbulent V-Flame

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Integrated Simulation of Fusion Plasmas

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February 2005, Vol. 58 (2), pp. 35-40

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High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding

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30 September 2004, Vol. 431, pp. 541-544