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Albert Rimola is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research spans the fields of physics and astronomy, with a focus on astronomy and astrophysics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, atmospheric science, spectroscopy, and materials chemistry.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Astrophysics and star formation studies
  • Advanced chemical physics studies
  • Molecular spectroscopy and structure
  • Astro and planetary science
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Planetary science and exploration

Albert Rimola's work has been frequently published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Piero Ugliengo
  • C. Ceccarelli
  • Nadia Balucani
  • Stefano Ferrero
  • Stefano Pantaleone

Recent papers by Albert Rimola include:

  • Thermal desorption of interstellar ices: a review on the controlling parameters and their implications from snowlines to chemical complexity, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Quantum Mechanical Simulations of the Radical-Radical Chemistry on Icy Surfaces, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • H2 Formation on Interstellar Grains and the Fate of Reaction Energy, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • FAUST I. The hot corino at the heart of the prototypical Class I protostar L1551 IRS5, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
  • Non-energetic Formation of Ethanol via CCH Reaction with Interstellar H2O Ices. A Computational Chemistry Study, 2022, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Silica Surface Features and Their Role in the Adsorption of Biomolecules: Computational Modeling and Experiments

    Albert Rimola;Dominique Costa;Mariona Sodupe;Jean-François Lambert

  • Design, selection, and characterization of thioflavin-based intercalation compounds with metal chelating properties for application in Alzheimer's disease.

    Cristina Rodríguez-Rodríguez;Natalia Sánchez de Groot;Albert Rimola;Ángel Álvarez-Larena

  • Seeds Of Life In Space (SOLIS): The Organic Composition Diversity at 300–1000 au Scale in Solar-type Star-forming Regions*

    C. Ceccarelli;P. Caselli;F. Fontani;R. Neri

  • Hydroxyapatite as a key biomaterial: quantum-mechanical simulation of its surfaces in interaction with biomolecules

    Marta Corno;Albert Rimola;Vera Bolis;Piero Ugliengo

  • Seeds of Life in Space (SOLIS) II. Formamide in protostellar shocks: Evidence for gas-phase formation

    C. Codella;C. Ceccarelli;C. Ceccarelli;P. Caselli;N. Balucani;N. Balucani

  • Affinity Scale for the Interaction of Amino Acids with Silica Surfaces

    Albert Rimola;Mariona Sodupe;Piero Ugliengo

  • Combined quantum chemical and modeling study of CO hydrogenation on water ice

    Albert Rimola;Vianney Taquet;Piero Ugliengo;Nadia Balucani

  • Ab initio modeling of protein/biomaterial interactions: glycine adsorption at hydroxyapatite surfaces.

    Albert Rimola;Marta Corno;Claudio Marcelo Zicovich-Wilson;Piero Ugliengo

  • Seeds Of Life In Space (SOLIS): The organic composition diversity at 300--1000 au scale in Solar-type star forming regions

    C. Ceccarelli;P. Caselli;F. Fontani;R. Neri

  • Cation-π interactions and oxidative effects on Cu+ and Cu2+ binding to Phe, Tyr, Trp, and his amino acids in the gas phase. Insights from first-principles calculations

    Albert Rimola;Luis Rodríguez-Santiago;Mariona Sodupe

  • Six-dimensional dynamics study of reactive and non reactive scattering of H2 from Cu(111) using a chemically accurate potential energy surface

    C. Díaz;R. A. Olsen;D. J. Auerbach;G. J. Kroes

  • Interaction of glycine with isolated hydroxyl groups at the silica surface: first principles B3LYP periodic simulation.

    Albert Rimola;Mariona Sodupe;Sergio Tosoni;Bartolomeo Civalleri

  • Seeds of Life in Space (SOLIS) III. Formamide in protostellar shocks: evidence for gas-phase formation

    C. Codella;C. Ceccarelli;P. Caselli;N. Balucani

  • Crystal structure of thioflavin-T and its binding to amyloid fibrils: insights at the molecular level

    Cristina Rodríguez-Rodríguez;Albert Rimola;Luis Rodríguez-Santiago;Piero Ugliengo

  • Ground and Low-Lying States of Cu2+−H2O. A Difficult Case for Density Functional Methods

    J. Poater;M. Sola;A. Rimola;L. Rodriguez-Santiago

  • Deep-space glycine formation via Strecker-type reactions activated by ice water dust mantles. A computational approach.

    Albert Rimola;Mariona Sodupe;Piero Ugliengo

  • Does Silica Surface Catalyse Peptide Bond Formation? New Insights from First‐Principles Calculations

    Albert Rimola;Sergio Tosoni;Mariona Sodupe;Piero Ugliengo

  • Binding Energies of Interstellar Molecules on Crystalline and Amorphous Models of Water Ice by Ab Initio Calculations

    Stefano Ferrero;Lorenzo Zamirri;Cecilia Ceccarelli;Arezu Witzel

  • Aluminosilicate Surfaces as Promoters for Peptide Bond Formation: An Assessment of Bernal's Hypothesis by ab Initio Methods

    Albert Rimola;Mariona Sodupe;Piero Ugliengo

  • The (impossible?) formation of acetaldehyde on the grain surfaces: insights from quantum chemical calculations

    J. Enrique-Romero;A. Rimola;C. Ceccarelli;C. Ceccarelli;N. Balucani;N. Balucani;N. Balucani

Frequent Co-Authors

Piero Ugliengo
Piero Ugliengo University of Turin
Nadia Balucani
Nadia Balucani University of Perugia
Mariona Sodupe
Mariona Sodupe Autonomous University of Barcelona
Cecilia Ceccarelli
Cecilia Ceccarelli Grenoble Alpes University
Emmanuel Caux
Emmanuel Caux Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Rafael Bachiller
Rafael Bachiller Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de España
Paola Caselli
Paola Caselli Max Planck Society
Bertrand Lefloch
Bertrand Lefloch Grenoble Alpes University
Jordi Llorca
Jordi Llorca Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Roberto Neri
Roberto Neri Max Planck Society

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