Journal Cover Stories
Here are papers authored by NERSC users that were featured on the cover of the scientific journal in which they were published. You can sort according to any of the headings below.
A New Mechanism for Gravitational-Wave Emission in Core-Collapse Supernovae
Phys. Rev. Lett. » Volume 96 » Issue 20
Isomer Energy Differences for the C4H3 and C4H5 Isomers Using Diffusion Monte Carlo
2008, Vol. 112 (10), pp. 2065–2068
Atomistic Simulations of Hydrated Nafion and Temperature Effects on Hydronium Ion Mobility
2007, Vol. 111 (25), pp. 7234–7244
Understanding the Surface Potential of Water
On the hydration and hydrolysis of carbon dioxide
The halogen analogs of thiolated gold nanoclusters
Hydrogen reactivity on highly-hydroxylated TiO2(110) surfaces prepared via carboxylic acid adsorption and photolysis
Molecular and Atomic Hydrogen Interactions with Au−Ir Near-Surface Alloys
2009, Vol. 113 (4), pp. 1411–1417
Computational Investigation of the First Solvation Shell Structure of Interfacial and Bulk Aqueous Chloride and Iodide Ions
2009, Vol. 113 (13), pp. 4141–4146
Insight from molecular modelling: does the polymer side chain length matter for transport properties of perfluorosulfonic acid membranes?
Computational studies of molecular hydrogen binding affinities: The role of dispersion forces, electrostatics, and orbital interactions
2006, Vol. 8 (12), pp. 1357-1370
Dielectric Nanodroplets: Structure, Stability, Thermodynamics, Shape Transitions and Electrocrystallization in Applied Electric Fields
Graphene Moves Toward Applications
Hierarchically Porous Graphene as a Lithium-Air Battery Electrode. See also http://pubs.acs.org/NanoLett (2011) 11, 5071–5078
Curvature Effect on the Capacitance of Electric Double Layers at Ionic Liquid/Onion-Like Carbon Interfaces
Mn monolayer modified Rh for syngas-to-ethanol conversion: a first-principles study
Does Nitric Acid Dissociate at the Aqueous Solution Surface?
Rate-Determining Step in the NOx Reduction Mechanism on BaY Zeolites and the Importance of Long-Range Lattice Effects
SSC: A tool for constructing libraries for systematic screening of conformers
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21774
Electronic structure of aqueous borohydride: a potential hydrogen storage medium
Moving Protons with Pendant Amines: Proton Mobility in a Nickel Catalyst for Oxidation of Hydrogen
The Role of Pendant Amines in the Breaking and Forming of Molecular Hydrogen Catalyzed by Nickel Complexes
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
May 2009, Vol. 48 (10), pp. 4372-4383
Current Status of the AMOEBA Polarizable Force Field
Effects of co-solvents on peptide hydration water structure and dynamics
2010, Vol. 12 (2), pp. 393-405
First Principles Simulation of the Bonding, Vibrational, and Electronic Properties of the Hydration Shells of the High-Spin Fe3+ Ion in Aqueous Solutions
2010, Vol. 114 (5), pp. 2189–2200
Methanol Synthesis from H2 and CO2 on a Mo6S8 Cluster: A Density Functional Study
J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114 (11), pp 3888–3895
Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy
Nature 464, 571-574 (25 March 2010) | doi:10.1038/nature08879
Atomistic Simulation of Water Percolation and Proton Hopping in Nafion Fuel Cell Membrane
State-to-state quantum dynamics of the O(3P)+OH(2Π)→H(2S)+O2(3Σg−) reaction
J. Chem. Phys. 133, 054302 (2010);
Similarity-Driven Discovery of Zeolite Materials for Adsorption-Based Separations
Methane Activation and Catalytic Ethylene Formation on Free Au2
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 980 –983
Regional Climate–Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Tropical cyclones and permanent El Nino in the early Pliocene epoch
Nature 463, 1066-1070 (25 February 2010) |
Low-Swirl Combustion: Experiments and Simulations Working Together
2010, No. 16, Special Issue 2010, pp. 16
The Effect of Sudden Source Buoyancy Flux Increases on Turbulent Plumes
10 September 2009, Vol. 635, pp. 137-169
Numerical Simulation of a Laboratory-Scale Turbulent V-Flame
Magnetic X-Points, Edge Localized Modes, and Stochasticity
2010, Vol. 17 (6), 062505
Freely decaying turbulence in two-dimensional electrostatic gyrokinetics
Reconnecting Magnetic Fields
September-October 2009, Vol. 97 (5), pp. 392
Intrinsic Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas
Analysis of shot-to-shot variability in post-disruption runaway electron currents for diverted DIII-D discharges
Large Fields for Smaller Facility Sources
Summer 2009, Issue 13, pp. 13-21
Integrated Simulation of Fusion Plasmas
February 2005, Vol. 58 (2), pp. 35-40
High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding
30 September 2004, Vol. 431, pp. 541-544
An Assessment of Full Wave Effects on the Propagation and Absorption of Lower Hybrid Wave
2009, Vol. 16 (7), 072502
Simulation of high-power electromagnetic wave heating in the ITER burning plasma
July 2008, Vol. 15, 072513
Resolving Velocity Space Dynamics in Continuum Gyrokinetics
2010, Vol. 17 (3), 032106
Lattice strain effects on CO oxidation on Pt(111)
2006, Vol. 8 (29), pp. 3369-3374
When a domain is not a domain, and why it is important to properly filter proteins in databases
Characterization of intact subcellular bodies in whole bacteria by cryo-electron tomography and spectroscopic imaging
July 2006, Vol. 223 (1), pp. 40–52
New and Efficient Poisson−Boltzmann Solver for Interaction of Multiple Proteins
2010, Vol. 6 (7), pp. 2214–2224
Contrasting Disease and Nondisease Protein Aggregation by Molecular Simulation
2008, Vol. 41 (8), pp. 1037–1047
Improved Energy Selection of Nativelike Protein Loops from Loop Decoys
2008, Vol. 4 (3), pp. 515–521
Dynameomics: A Comprehensive Database of Protein Dynamics
14 March 2010, Vol. 18 (4), pp. 423-435
Barrier-free tunneling in a carbon heterojunction transistor
Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 033102 (2010)
Mechanical Properties and Electronic Structure of Mullite Phases Using First-Principles Modeling
Accuracy of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Point Defects in Solids
Testing the sign-changing superconducting gap in iron-based superconductors with quasiparticle interference and neutron scattering
Phase Transitions in Nanoconfined Fluids: The Evidence from Simulation and Theory
Origin of the Variation of Exciton Binding Energy in Semiconductors
Computational challenges for nanostructure solar cells
2009, Vol. 2, pp. 944-955
Molecular Structure and Dynamics in Thin Water Films at the Silica and Graphite Surfaces
2008, Vol. 112 (35), pp. 13587–13599
Mechanistic study of droplets coalescence in Pickering emulsions
Growth of Carbon Structures on Stepped (211)Co Surfaces
2009, Vol. 113 (35), pp. 15658–15666
Electron transport properties of carbon nanotube–graphene contacts
Gyrokinetic particle-in-cell optimization on emerging multi- and manycore platforms
doi:10.1016/j.parco.2011.02.001
Architectural Simulation for Exascale Hardware/Software Co-design
Special Issue on CoDesign for Systems and Applications, Vladimir Getov, Adolfy Hoisie, and Harvey Wasserman, guest editors





































































