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Giacinto Scoles

Giacinto Scoles

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Chemistry
Italy
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
25537
World Ranking
2934
National Ranking
48

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1991 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his innovative contributions to molecular beam scattering, atomsurface scattering, and our knowledge of intermolecular forces and his contributions to the high resolution infrared spectroscopy of molecular beams

Overview

Giacinto Scoles is affiliated with the University of Udine in Italy and contributes to multiple fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Computer Science.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to protein structure and dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and computational drug discovery methods.

Key recent publication includes:

  • Insights on peptide topology in the computational design of protein ligands: the example of lysozyme binding peptides, 2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Giacinto Scoles are:

  • Cristina Cantarutti
  • M. Cristina Vargas
  • Cedrix J. Dongmo Foumthuim
  • Mireille Dumoulin
  • Sara La Manna

The main publication venue for their recent work is Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Scoles' scholarly output spans molecular biology and computational theory and mathematics, with a focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying protein interactions and computational approaches to drug design.

The scientist has been recognized with several professional distinctions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2002
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 1997
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 1991 - Citation for innovative contributions to molecular beam scattering, atom-surface scattering, intermolecular forces, and high-resolution infrared spectroscopy of molecular beams

Best Publications

  • Atomic and Molecular Beam Methods

    Giacinto Scoles

  • Towards extending the applicability of density functional theory to weakly bound systems

    X. Wu;M. C. Vargas;S. Nayak;V. Lotrich

  • Intermolecular forces in simple systems

    R. Ahlrichs;R. Penco;G. Scoles

  • Physisorption and Chemisorption of Alkanethiols and Alkyl Sulfides on Au(111)

    David J. Lavrich;Sean M. Wetterer;and Steven L. Bernasek;Giacinto Scoles

  • Efficient water oxidation at carbon nanotube–polyoxometalate electrocatalytic interfaces

    Francesca M. Toma;Andrea Sartorel;Matteo Iurlo;Mauro Carraro

  • Molecular order at the surface of an organic monolayer studied by low energy helium diffraction

    Christopher E. D. Chidsey;Gang‐Yu Liu;Paul Rowntree;Giacinto Scoles

  • Superlattice structure at the surface of a monolayer of octadecanethiol self‐assembled on Au(111)

    Nicholas Camillone;Christopher E. D. Chidsey;Gang‐yu Liu;Giacinto Scoles

  • INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICS FROM EIGENSTATE-RESOLVED INFRARED SPECTRA

    K. K. Lehmann;G. Scoles;B. H. Pate

  • Helium nanodroplet isolation ro-vibrational spectroscopy: methods and recent results

    Carlo Callegari;Kevin K. Lehmann;Roman Schmied;Giacinto Scoles

  • Helium nanodroplet isolation rovibrational spectroscopy: Methods and recent results

    Carlo Callegari;Kevin K. Lehmann;Roman Schmied;Giacinto Scoles

  • Vibrational spectroscopy of sulfur hexafluoride attached to helium clusters.

    S. Goyal;D. L. Schutt;G. Scoles

  • Intermolecular forces via hybrid Hartree–Fock–SCF plus damped dispersion (HFD) energy calculations. An improved spherical model

    C. Douketis;G. Scoles;S. Marchetti;M. Zen

  • X-ray Diffraction and Computation Yield the Structure of Alkanethiols on Gold(111)

    A. Cossaro;R. Mazzarello;R. Rousseau;L. Casalis

  • OXYGEN ADSORPTION ON GRAPHITE AND NANOTUBES

    P. Giannozzi;Roberto Car;G. Scoles

  • Infrared laser spectroscopy of molecular beams

    T. E. Gough;R. E. Miller;G. Scoles

  • A simple but reliable method for the prediction of intermolecular potentials

    J. Hepburn;G. Scoles;R. Penco

  • Structure of a CH3S monolayer on Au(111) solved by the interplay between molecular dynamics calculations and diffraction measurements.

    Riccardo Mazzarello;Riccardo Mazzarello;Albano Cossaro;Alberto Verdini;R Rousseau

  • Infrared spectroscopy at the surface of clusters: SF6 on Ar

    T. E. Gough;M. Mengel;P. A. Rowntree;G. Scoles

  • Optical Ramsey fringes with traveling waves

    Ch. J. Bordé;Ch. Salomon;S. Avrillier;A. van Lerberghe

  • Coverage-Dependent Adsorption of CH3S and (CH3S)2 on Au(111): a Density Functional Theory Study

    Maria Cristina Vargas;Paolo Giannozzi;and Annabella Selloni;Giacinto Scoles

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin K. Lehmann
Kevin K. Lehmann University of Virginia
Ugo Valbusa
Ugo Valbusa University of Genoa
Frank Schreiber
Frank Schreiber University of Tübingen
Maciej Gutowski
Maciej Gutowski Heriot-Watt University
Hannes Jónsson
Hannes Jónsson University of Iceland
Bert Nickel
Bert Nickel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Gang-yu Liu
Gang-yu Liu University of California, Davis
Ricardo Ruiz
Ricardo Ruiz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Antoine Kahn
Antoine Kahn Princeton University
Jun Li
Jun Li Xi'an Jiaotong University

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