Marc O. J. Jäger*, Yashasvi S. Ranawat, Filippo Federici Canova, Eiaki V. Morooka, Adam S. Foster
{"title":"Efficient Machine-Learning-Aided Screening of Hydrogen Adsorption on Bimetallic Nanoclusters","authors":"Marc O. J. Jäger*, Yashasvi S. Ranawat, Filippo Federici Canova, Eiaki V. Morooka, Adam S. Foster","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00102","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Nanoclusters add an additional dimension in which to look for promising catalyst candidates, since catalytic activity of materials often changes at the nanoscale. However, the large search space of relevant atomic sites exacerbates the challenge for computational screening methods and requires the development of new techniques for efficient exploration. We present an automated workflow that systematically manages simulations from the generation of nanoclusters through the submission of production jobs, to the prediction of adsorption energies. The presented workflow was designed to screen nanoclusters of arbitrary shapes and size, but in this work the search was restricted to bimetallic icosahedral clusters and the adsorption was exemplified on the hydrogen evolution reaction. We demonstrate the efficient exploration of nanocluster configurations and screening of adsorption energies with the aid of machine learning. The results show that the maximum of the <i>d</i>-band Hilbert-transform ?<sub><i>u</i></sub> is correlated strongly with adsorption energies and could be a useful screening property accessible at the nanocluster level.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1237219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Duncan R. Sutherland, Aine Boyer Connolly, Maximilian Amsler, Ming-Chiang Chang, Katie Rose Gann, Vidit Gupta, Sebastian Ament, Dan Guevarra, John M. Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes, R. Bruce van Dover*, Michael O. Thompson*
{"title":"Optical Identification of Materials Transformations in Oxide Thin Films","authors":"Duncan R. Sutherland, Aine Boyer Connolly, Maximilian Amsler, Ming-Chiang Chang, Katie Rose Gann, Vidit Gupta, Sebastian Ament, Dan Guevarra, John M. Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes, R. Bruce van Dover*, Michael O. Thompson*","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00172","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Recent advances in high-throughput experimentation for combinatorial studies have accelerated the discovery and analysis of materials across a wide range of compositions and synthesis conditions. However, many of the more powerful characterization methods are limited by speed, cost, availability, and/or resolution. To make efficient use of these methods, there is value in developing approaches for identifying critical compositions and conditions to be used as <i>a priori</i> knowledge for follow-up characterization with high-precision techniques, such as micrometer-scale synchrotron-based X-ray diffraction (XRD). Here, we demonstrate the use of optical microscopy and reflectance spectroscopy to identify likely phase-change boundaries in thin film libraries. These methods are used to delineate possible metastable phase boundaries following lateral-gradient laser spike annealing (lg-LSA) of oxide materials. The set of boundaries are then compared with definitive determinations of structural transformations obtained using high-resolution XRD. We demonstrate that the optical methods detect more than 95% of the structural transformations in a composition-gradient La-Mn-O library and a Ga<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> sample, both subject to an extensive set of lg-LSA anneals. Our results provide quantitative support for the value of optically detected transformations as <i>a priori</i> data to guide subsequent structural characterization, ultimately accelerating and enhancing the efficient implementation of micrometer-resolution XRD experiments.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00172","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1348673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul F. Newhouse, Lan Zhou, Mitsutaro Umehara, David A. Boyd, Edwin Soedarmadji, Joel A. Haber, John M. Gregoire*
{"title":"Bi Alloying into Rare Earth Double Perovskites Enhances Synthesizability and Visible Light Absorption","authors":"Paul F. Newhouse, Lan Zhou, Mitsutaro Umehara, David A. Boyd, Edwin Soedarmadji, Joel A. Haber, John M. Gregoire*","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00177","url":null,"abstract":"<p >A high throughput combinatorial synthesis utilizing inkjet printing of precursor inks was used to rapidly evaluate Bi-alloying into double perovskite oxides for enhanced visible light absorption. The fast visual screening of photo image scans of the library plates identifies 4-metal oxide compositions displaying an increase in light absorption, which subsequent UV–vis spectroscopy indicates is due to bandgap reduction. Structural characterization by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy demonstrates that the visually darker composition range contains Bi-alloyed Sm<sub>2</sub>MnNiO<sub>6</sub> (double perovskite structure), of the form (Bi,Sm)<sub>2</sub>MnNiO<sub>6</sub>. Bi alloying not only increases the visible absorption but also facilitates crystallization of this structure at the relatively low annealing temperature of 615 °C. Investigation of additional seven combinations of a rare earth (RE) and a transition metal (TM) with Bi and Mn indicates that Bi-alloying on the RE site occurs with similar effect in the family of rare earth oxide double perovskites.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00177","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1323876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Profiling SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease (MPRO) Binding to Repurposed Drugs Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Classical and Neural Network-Trained Force Fields","authors":"Aayush Gupta, Huan-Xiang Zhou*","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00140","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 urgently calls for a working therapeutic. Here, we report a computation-based workflow for efficiently selecting a subset of FDA-approved drugs that can potentially bind to the SARS-CoV-2 main protease M<sup>PRO</sup>. The workflow started with docking (using Autodock Vina) each of 1615 FDA-approved drugs to the M<sup>PRO</sup> active site. This step selected 62 candidates with docking energies lower than ?8.5 kcal/mol. Then, the 62 docked protein–drug complexes were subjected to 100 ns of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in a molecular mechanics (MM) force field (CHARMM36). This step reduced the candidate pool to 26, based on the root-mean-square-deviations (RMSDs) of the drug molecules in the trajectories. Finally, we modeled the 26 drug molecules by a pseudoquantum mechanical (ANI) force field and ran 5 ns hybrid ANI/MM MD simulations of the 26 protein–drug complexes. ANI was trained by neural network models on quantum mechanical density functional theory (wB97X/6-31G(d)) data points. An RMSD cutoff winnowed down the pool to 12, and free energy analysis (MM/PBSA) produced the final selection of 9 drugs: dihydroergotamine, midostaurin, ziprasidone, etoposide, apixaban, fluorescein, tadalafil, rolapitant, and palbociclib. Of these, three are found to be active in literature reports of experimental studies. To provide physical insight into their mechanism of action, the interactions of the drug molecules with the protein are presented as 2D-interaction maps. These findings and mappings of drug–protein interactions may be potentially used to guide rational drug discovery against COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00140","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1347676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Swati Kumari, João R. C. Junqueira, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Alfred Ludwig*
{"title":"High-Throughput Exploration of Metal Vanadate Thin-Film Systems (M–V–O, M = Cu, Ag, W, Cr, Co, Fe) for Solar Water Splitting: Composition, Structure, Stability, and Photoelectrochemical Properties","authors":"Swati Kumari, João R. C. Junqueira, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Alfred Ludwig*","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00150","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization of thin-film materials libraries enable to efficiently identify both photoelectrochemically active and inactive, as well as stable and instable systems for solar water splitting. This is shown on six ternary metal vanadate (M–V–O, M = Cu, Ag, W, Cr, Co, Fe) thin-film materials libraries, fabricated using combinatorial reactive magnetron cosputtering with subsequent annealing in air. By means of high-throughput characterization of these libraries correlations between composition, crystal structure, photocurrent density, and stability of the M–V–O systems in different electrolytes such as acidic, neutral and alkaline media were identified. The systems Cu–V–O and Ag–V–O are stable in alkaline electrolyte and exhibited photocurrents of 170 and 554 μA/cm<sup>2</sup>, respectively, whereas the systems W–V–O, Cr–V–O, and Co–V–O are not stable in alkaline electrolyte. However, the Cr–V–O and Co–V–O systems showed an enlarged photoactive region in acidic electrolyte, albeit with very low photocurrents (<10 μA/cm<sup>2</sup>). Complete data sets obtained from these different screening sets, including information on nonpromising systems, lays groundwork for their use to predict new systems for solar water splitting, for example, by machine learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"825702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Measurement Tools for High-Throughput Experiments of Synchrotron Radiation XRD and XAFS on Powder Libraries","authors":"Kenjiro Fujimoto*, Akihisa Aimi, Shingo Maruyama","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00174","url":null,"abstract":"<p >We propose to minimize the sampling time for high-throughput measurements of powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) in synchrotron radiation. The conventional synchrotron radiation powder X-ray diffraction method requires filling of a capillary tube, but a structure-refining diffraction pattern could be obtained by transferring the crushed powder to a tape and rotating the cassette-tape tool by ±5° around the sample position. XAFS spectra could also be measured with the sample attached to the tape. The time required for sample preparation was greatly reduced, which made high-throughput experiments with powders in synchrotron radiation experiments more accessible.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"818693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milad Ashrafizadeh, Ali Zarrabi, Kiavash Hushmandi, Farid Hashemi, Ebrahim Rahmani Moghadam, Mehdi Raei, Mahshad Kalantari, Shima Tavakol, Reza Mohammadinejad, Masoud Najafi*, Franklin R. Tay, Pooyan Makvandi*
{"title":"Progress in Natural Compounds/siRNA Co-delivery Employing Nanovehicles for Cancer Therapy","authors":"Milad Ashrafizadeh, Ali Zarrabi, Kiavash Hushmandi, Farid Hashemi, Ebrahim Rahmani Moghadam, Mehdi Raei, Mahshad Kalantari, Shima Tavakol, Reza Mohammadinejad, Masoud Najafi*, Franklin R. Tay, Pooyan Makvandi*","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00099","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Chemotherapy using natural compounds, such as resveratrol, curcumin, paclitaxel, docetaxel, etoposide, doxorubicin, and camptothecin, is of importance in cancer therapy because of the outstanding therapeutic activity and multitargeting capability of these compounds. However, poor solubility and bioavailability of natural compounds have limited their efficacy in cancer therapy. To circumvent this hurdle, nanocarriers have been designed to improve the antitumor activity of the aforementioned compounds. Nevertheless, cancer treatment is still a challenge, demanding novel strategies. It is well-known that a combination of natural products and gene therapy is advantageous over monotherapy. Delivery of multiple therapeutic agents/small interfering RNA (siRNA) as a potent gene-editing tool in cancer therapy can maximize the synergistic effects against tumor cells. In the present review, co-delivery of natural compounds/siRNA using nanovehicles are highlighted to provide a backdrop for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1332100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simultaneous Measurements of Photoabsorption and Photoelectrochemical Performance for Thickness Optimization of a Semiconductor Photoelectrode","authors":"Naoya Murakami*, Ryo Watanabe","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00113","url":null,"abstract":"<p >We established a system for simultaneous measurements of photoelectrochemical (PEC) reaction and photoabsorption in a semiconductor photoelectrode. This system uses a photoacoustic technique and photoelectrodes with a film-thickness gradient that was prepared by electrophoretic deposition of tungsten(VI) oxide particles while pulling up a substrate. The system enabled high-throughput determination of optimum film thickness, and the results showed that irradiation direction has a significant influence on PEC performance for a photoelectrode with a thick film. Furthermore, the mechanism of enhancement of PEC performance by postnecking treatment was discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1304845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaitlyn Bacon, John Bowen, Hannah Reese, Balaji M. Rao*, Stefano Menegatti*
{"title":"Use of Target-Displaying Magnetized Yeast in Screening mRNA-Display Peptide Libraries to Identify Ligands","authors":"Kaitlyn Bacon, John Bowen, Hannah Reese, Balaji M. Rao*, Stefano Menegatti*","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00171","url":null,"abstract":"<p >This work presents the first use of yeast-displayed protein targets for screening mRNA-display libraries of cyclic and linear peptides. The WW domains of Yes-Associated Protein 1 (WW-YAP) and mitochondrial import receptor subunit TOM22 were adopted as protein targets. Yeast cells displaying WW-YAP or TOM22 were magnetized with iron oxide nanoparticles to enable the isolation of target-binding mRNA-peptide fusions. Equilibrium adsorption studies were conducted to estimate the binding affinity (<i>K</i><sub>D</sub>) of select WW-YAP-binding peptides: <i>K</i><sub>D</sub> values of 37 and 4 μM were obtained for cyclo[M-AFRLC-K] and its linear cognate, and 40 and 3 μM for cyclo[M-LDFVNHRSRG-K] and its linear cognate, respectively. TOM22-binding peptide cyclo[M-PELNRAI-K] was conjugated to magnetic beads and incubated with yeast cells expressing TOM22 and luciferase. A luciferase-based assay showed a 4.5-fold higher binding of TOM22<sup>+</sup> yeast compared to control cells. This work demonstrates that integrating mRNA- and yeast-display accelerates the discovery of peptide ligands.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00171","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1327417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Celine Barreteau*, Jean-Claude Crivello, Jean-Marc Joubert, Eric Alleno
{"title":"Optimization of Criteria for an Efficient Screening of New Thermoelectric Compounds: The TiNiSi Structure-Type as a Case-Study","authors":"Celine Barreteau*, Jean-Claude Crivello, Jean-Marc Joubert, Eric Alleno","doi":"10.1021/acscombsci.0c00133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00133","url":null,"abstract":"<p >High-throughput calculations can be applied to a large number of compounds, in order to discover new useful materials. In the present work, ternary intermetallic compounds are investigated, to find new potentially interesting materials for thermoelectric applications. The screening of stable nonmetallic compounds required for such applications is performed by calculating their electronic structure, using DFT methods. In the first section, the study of the density of states at the Fermi level, of pure elements, binary and ternary compounds, leads to empirically chose the selection criterion to distinguish metals from nonmetals. In the second section, the TiNiSi structure-type is used as a case-study application, through the investigation of 570 possible compositions. The screening leads to the selection of 12 possible semiconductors. The Seebeck coefficient and the lattice thermal conductivity of the selected compounds are calculated in order to identify the most promising ones. Among them, TiNiSi, TaNiP, or HfCoP are shown to be worth a detailed experimental investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":14,"journal":{"name":"ACS Combinatorial Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.784,"publicationDate":"2020-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1021/acscombsci.0c00133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1321427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}