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Overview

Mauro Boero is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France and primarily focuses on research in the field of Materials Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ceramics and Composites, Molecular Biology, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Glass properties and applications
  • Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications

Boero has published scientific articles in a variety of journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
  • Physical Review Materials
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Examples of recent publications include:

  • Thermal conductivity of amorphous SiO2 by first-principles molecular dynamics (2022), Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
  • Comprehensive Search of Stable Isomers of Alanine and Alanine Precursors in Prebiotic Syntheses (2022), Astrobiology
  • Molecular mechanism of a large conformational change of the quinone cofactor in the semiquinone intermediate of bacterial copper amine oxidase (2022), Chemical Science
  • How natural materials remove heavy metals from water: mechanistic insights from molecular dynamics simulations (2021), Chemical Science
  • Atomic structure and origin of chirality of DNA-stabilized silver clusters (2020), Physical Review Materials

Boero frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Guido Ori
  • Carlo Massobrio
  • Évelyne Martin
  • Assil Bouzid
  • Yasuteru Shigeta

Best Publications

  • Carbon Alloy Catalysts: Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Takashi Ikeda;Mauro Boero;Sheng-Feng Huang;Kiyoyuki Terakura

  • Alq3: ab initio calculations of its structural and electronic properties in neutral and charged states

    Alessandro Curioni;Mauro Boero;Wanda Andreoni

  • Electronic structures of promising photocatalysts InMO4 (M=V, Nb, Ta) and BiVO4 for water decomposition in the visible wavelength region

    Mitsutake Oshikiri;Mauro Boero;Jinhua Ye;Zhigang Zou

  • Structure and Hyperfine Parameters of E 1 ′ Centers in α -Quartz and in Vitreous SiO 2

    Mauro Boero;Alfredo Pasquarello;Johannes Sarnthein;Roberto Car

  • First-principles calculation of the electronic properties of graphene clusters doped with nitrogen and boron: Analysis of catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction

    Sheng-Feng Huang;Kiyoyuki Terakura;Kiyoyuki Terakura;Taisuke Ozaki;Takashi Ikeda

  • First-principles molecular-dynamics simulations of a hydrated electron in normal and supercritical water.

    Mauro Boero;Mauro Boero;Michele Parrinello;Kiyoyuki Terakura;Tamio Ikeshoji

  • First Principles Molecular Dynamics Study of Ziegler−Natta Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Mauro Boero;Michele Parrinello;Kiyoyuki Terakura

  • Hydrogen bonding and dipole moment of water at supercritical conditions: a first-principles molecular dynamics study.

    Mauro Boero;Kiyoyuki Terakura;Tamio Ikeshoji;Chee Chin Liew

  • Hydration of alkali ions from first principles molecular dynamics revisited

    Takashi Ikeda;Mauro Boero;Kiyoyuki Terakura

  • Hydration properties of magnesium and calcium ions from constrained first principles molecular dynamics.

    Takashi Ikeda;Mauro Boero;Kiyoyuki Terakura

  • First principles study of propene polymerization in Ziegler-Natta heterogeneous catalysis

    Mauro Boero;Michele Parrinello;and Stephan Hüffer;Horst Weiss

  • Water at supercritical conditions: A first principles study

    Mauro Boero;Kiyoyuki Terakura;Tamio Ikeshoji;Chee Chin Liew

  • Hydrogen bond driven chemical reactions: Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime into epsilon-caprolactam in supercritical water.

    Mauro Boero;Tamio Ikeshoji;Chee Chin Liew;Kiyoyuki Terakura

  • A First Principles Exploration of a Variety of Active Surfaces and Catalytic Sites in Ziegler−Natta Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Mauro Boero;Michele Parrinello;Horst Weiss;Stephan Hüffer

  • Influence of hydrogen-bonding configurations on the physical properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon.

    C Manfredotti;F Fizzotti;M Boero;P Pastorino

  • A Mechanism of Adsorption of β‐Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide on Graphene Sheets: Experiment and Theory

    Martin Pumera;Roberto Scipioni;Hideo Iwai;Takahisa Ohno

  • First principles calculations of Si doped fullerenes: Structural and electronic localization properties in C59Si and C58Si2

    I. M. L. Billas;C. Massobrio;M. Boero;M. Parrinello

  • Angular rigidity in tetrahedral network glasses with changing composition

    M. Bauchy;M. Micoulaut;M. Celino;S. Le Roux

  • Structure, topology, rings, and vibrational and electronic properties of Ge x Se 1-x glasses across the rigidity transition: A numerical study

    M. Micoulaut;Ali Kachmar;M. Bauchy;S. Le Roux

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Non-Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Actinide Endohedral Metallofullerenes U@ C 1 (17418)-C 76 , U@ C 1 (28324)-C 80 , and Th@ C 1 (28324)-C 80 : Low-Symmetry Cage Selection Directed by a Tetravalent Ion.

    Wenting Cai;Wenting Cai;Laura Abella;Jiaxin Zhuang;Xingxing Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsushi Oshiyama
Atsushi Oshiyama Nagoya University
Kenji Shiraishi
Kenji Shiraishi Nagoya University
Kiyoyuki Terakura
Kiyoyuki Terakura National Institute for Materials Science
Jinhua Ye
Jinhua Ye National Institute for Materials Science
Benoit Coasne
Benoit Coasne Grenoble Alpes University
Toyohiro Chikyow
Toyohiro Chikyow National Institute for Materials Science
Akira Uedono
Akira Uedono University of Tsukuba
Masaharu Oshima
Masaharu Oshima University of Tokyo
Marco Bernasconi
Marco Bernasconi University of Milano-Bicocca

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