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Valeria Molinero is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has a significant body of work in engineering and materials science. Their research spans numerous topics within these fields, particularly focusing on materials chemistry, atmospheric science, and biomedical engineering, with notable contributions to electrical and electronic engineering and inorganic chemistry.

Their recent publications include:

  • AlphaFold2 models indicate that protein sequence determines both structure and dynamics, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Slow Propagation of Ice Binding Limits the Ice-Recrystallization Inhibition Efficiency of PVA and Other Flexible Polymers, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • CEGANN: Crystal Edge Graph Attention Neural Network for multiscale classification of materials environment, 2023, npj Computational Materials
  • Electrochemically Generated Nanobubbles: Invariance of the Current with Respect to Electrode Size and Potential, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • AlphaFold2 models indicate that protein sequence determines both structure and dynamics, 2022, Research Square (Research Square)

Molinero has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Debdas Dhabal, Andressa A. Bertolazzo, Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, Ingrid de Almeida Ribeiro, and Konrad Meister. These collaborations reflect ongoing research efforts in various subfields of materials science and engineering.

The scientist has published extensively in well-regarded venues such as:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Their main fields of study are divided between engineering and materials science, with their work concentrating on specialized topics such as nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, zeolite catalysis and synthesis, fuel cells and related materials, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, membrane-based ion separation techniques, material dynamics and properties, and mesoporous materials and catalysis.

Best Publications

  • Water Modeled As an Intermediate Element between Carbon and Silicon

    Valeria Molinero;Emily B. Moore

  • Structural transformation in supercooled water controls the crystallization rate of ice

    Emily B. Moore;Valeria Molinero

  • Nanophase-Segregation and Transport in Nafion 117 from Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Effect of Monomeric Sequence

    Seung Soon Jang;Valeria Molinero;and Tahir Çaǧın;William A. Goddard

  • Amorphous precursors in the nucleation of clathrate hydrates.

    Liam C. Jacobson;Waldemar Hujo;Valeria Molinero

  • Modeling Molecular Interactions in Water: From Pairwise to Many-Body Potential Energy Functions.

    Gerardo Andrés Cisneros;Kjartan Thor Wikfeldt;Lars Ojamäe;Jibao Lu

  • Freezing, melting and structure of ice in a hydrophilic nanopore

    Emily B. Moore;Ezequiel de la Llave;Kai Welke;Damian A. Scherlis

  • Thermodynamic stability and growth of guest-free clathrate hydrates: a low-density crystal phase of water.

    Liam C. Jacobson;Waldemar Hujo;Valeria Molinero

  • Heterogeneous nucleation of ice on carbon surfaces.

    Laura Lupi;Arpa Hudait;Valeria Molinero

  • Identification of Clathrate Hydrates, Hexagonal Ice, Cubic Ice, and Liquid Water in Simulations: the CHILL+ Algorithm

    Andrew H. Nguyen;Valeria Molinero

  • Homogeneous nucleation of methane hydrates: unrealistic under realistic conditions.

    Brandon C. Knott;Valeria Molinero;Michael F. Doherty;Baron Peters

  • Vitrification of a monatomic metallic liquid

    M. H. Bhat;V. Molinero;V. Molinero;E. Soignard;V. C. Solomon

  • Stacking disorder in ice I

    Tamsin L. Malkin;Benjamin J. Murray;Christoph G. Salzmann;Valeria Molinero

  • Nucleation Pathways of Clathrate Hydrates: Effect of Guest Size and Solubility

    Liam C. Jacobson;Waldemar Hujo;Valeria Molinero

  • Is it cubic? Ice crystallization from deeply supercooled water.

    Emily B. Moore;Valeria Molinero

  • Role of stacking disorder in ice nucleation.

    Laura Lupi;Arpa Hudait;Baron Peters;Michael Grünwald

  • Pore condensation and freezing is responsible for ice formation below water saturation for porous particles

    Robert O. David;Claudia Marcolli;Jonas Fahrni;Yuqing Qiu

  • AlphaFold2 models indicate that protein sequence determines both structure and dynamics

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  • Does Hydrophilicity of Carbon Particles Improve Their Ice Nucleation Ability

    Laura Lupi;Valeria Molinero

  • Growing correlation length in supercooled water

    Emily B. Moore;Valeria Molinero

  • Can amorphous nuclei grow crystalline clathrates? The size and crystallinity of critical clathrate nuclei.

    Liam C. Jacobson;Valeria Molinero

  • Ice crystallization in water’s “no-man’s land”

    Emily B. Moore;Valeria Molinero

  • Crystallization, Melting, and Structure of Water Nanoparticles at Atmospherically Relevant Temperatures

    Jessica C. Johnston;Valeria Molinero

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Seung Soon Jang
Seung Soon Jang Georgia Institute of Technology
Baron Peters
Baron Peters University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tahir Cagin
Tahir Cagin Texas A&M University
Francesco Paesani
Francesco Paesani University of California, San Diego
Jeffery L. Yarger
Jeffery L. Yarger Arizona State University
Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Wei-Qiao Deng
Wei-Qiao Deng Shandong University
Dmitry Bedrov
Dmitry Bedrov University of Utah
Adri C. T. van Duin
Adri C. T. van Duin Pennsylvania State University

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