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Overview

Philip E. Mason is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on physics, astronomy, and chemistry. The work emphasizes atomic and molecular physics, optics, and physical and theoretical chemistry, with additional contributions to spectroscopy, molecular biology, and environmental sustainability topics.

The main research areas include spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, protein structure and dynamics, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, advanced chemical physics studies, crystallography and molecular interactions, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, and advanced chemical sensor technologies.

Philip E. Mason has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Photoelectron spectra of alkali metal-ammonia microjets: From blue electrolyte to bronze metal, 2020, Science
  • Sweet taste of heavy water, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Effective Inclusion of Electronic Polarization Improves the Description of Electrostatic Interactions: The prosECCo75 Biomolecular Force Field, 2024, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Spectroscopic evidence for a gold-coloured metallic water solution, 2021, Nature
  • Common Cations Are Not Polarizable: Effects of Dispersion Correction on Hydration Structures from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics, 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Philip E. Mason are:

  • Pavel Jungwirth
  • Hector Martinez-Seara
  • H. Christian Schewe
  • Robert Seidel
  • Bernd Winter

The primary publication venues for their work include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • The hydration structure of guanidinium and thiocyanate ions: Implications for protein stability in aqueous solution

    PE Mason;GW Neilson;Christopher E Dempsey;Adrian C Barnes

  • Computer simulation studies of microcrystalline cellulose Iβ

    James F. Matthews;Cathy E. Skopec;Philip E. Mason;Pierfrancesco Zuccato;Pierfrancesco Zuccato

  • The structure of aqueous guanidinium chloride solutions

    Philip E. Mason;George W. Neilson;John E. Enderby;‖ Marie-Louise Saboungi

  • Topological versus chemical ordering in network glasses at intermediate and extended length scales

    Philip S. Salmon;Richard A. Martin;Philip E. Mason;Philip E. Mason;Gabriel J. Cuello

  • Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides induce membrane multilamellarity and subsequently enter via formation of a fusion pore.

    Christoph Allolio;Aniket Magarkar;Aniket Magarkar;Piotr Jurkiewicz;Katarína Baxová

  • Arginine "Magic": Guanidinium Like-Charge Ion Pairing from Aqueous Salts to Cell Penetrating Peptides.

    Mario Vazdar;Jan Heyda;Philip E. Mason;Giulio Tesei

  • Accurate description of calcium solvation in concentrated aqueous solutions.

    Miriam Kohagen;Philip E. Mason;Pavel Jungwirth

  • The molecular origin of like-charge arginine-arginine pairing in water.

    Jiří Vondrášek;Philip E. Mason;Jan Heyda;Kim D. Collins

  • Ion pairing in aqueous lithium salt solutions with monovalent and divalent counter-anions.

    Eva Pluhařová;Philip E. Mason;Pavel Jungwirth

  • Arginine side chain interactions and the role of arginine as a gating charge carrier in voltage sensitive ion channels

    Craig T. Armstrong;Philip E. Mason;J. L. Ross Anderson;Christopher E. Dempsey

  • Accounting for Electronic Polarization Effects in Aqueous Sodium Chloride via Molecular Dynamics Aided by Neutron Scattering.

    Miriam Kohagen;Philip E. Mason;Pavel Jungwirth

  • Coulomb explosion during the early stages of the reaction of alkali metals with water

    Philip E. Mason;Frank Uhlig;Václav Vaněk;Tillmann Buttersack

  • X-ray and neutron scattering studies of the hydration structure of alkali ions in concentrated aqueous solutions.

    S. Ansell;A.C. Barnes;P.E. Mason;G.W. Neilson

  • Bis(m-phenylene)-32-crown-10-based cryptands, powerful hosts for paraquat derivatives.

    Feihe Huang;Karen A. Switek;Lev N. Zakharov;Frank R. Fronczek

  • A New Cryptand: Synthesis and Complexation with Paraquat.

    Williams S. Bryant;Jason W. Jones;Philip E. Mason;Ilia Guzei

  • Hydration and Ion Pairing in Aqueous Mg2+ and Zn2+ Solutions: Force-Field Description Aided by Neutron Scattering Experiments and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Elise Duboué-Dijon;Philip E. Mason;Henry E. Fischer;Pavel Jungwirth

  • Attractive interactions between side chains of histidine-histidine and histidine-arginine-based cationic dipeptides in water.

    Jan Heyda;Philip E Mason;Pavel Jungwirth

  • The Interaction of Guanidinium Ions with a Model Peptide

    Philip E. Mason;John W. Brady;George W. Neilson;Christopher E. Dempsey

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies of Caffeine Aggregation in Aqueous Solution

    Letizia Tavagnacco;Udo Schnupf;Philip E. Mason;Marie-Louise Saboungi

  • Calcium ions in aqueous solutions: Accurate force field description aided by ab initio molecular dynamics and neutron scattering.

    Tomas Martinek;Elise Duboué-Dijon;Štěpán Timr;Philip E. Mason

  • Nanometer-scale ion aggregates in aqueous electrolyte solutions: guanidinium sulfate and guanidinium thiocyanate.

    PE Mason;CE Dempsey;GW Neilson;JW Brady

  • Ions at Hydrophobic Aqueous Interfaces: Molecular Dynamics with Effective Polarization

    Mario Vazdar;Eva Pluhařová;Phil E. Mason;Robert Vácha

Frequent Co-Authors

Pavel Jungwirth
Pavel Jungwirth Czech Academy of Sciences
John W. Brady
John W. Brady Cornell University
Christopher E. Dempsey
Christopher E. Dempsey University of Bristol
Marie-Louise Saboungi
Marie-Louise Saboungi Sorbonne University
Harry W. Gibson
Harry W. Gibson Virginia Tech
Stephen E. Bradforth
Stephen E. Bradforth University of Southern California
Bernd Winter
Bernd Winter Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Richard P. Martin
Richard P. Martin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David L. Price
David L. Price Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel M. Neumark
Daniel M. Neumark University of California, Berkeley

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