Shuang Xu, Dingding Tian, Xiaopeng Liang, Ruishan Wang, Wei Zhu, Shi Hu, Kuankuan Xiong, Zirong Fang, Lin Zhu, Nana Wang* and Jianpu Wang*,
{"title":"Chloride Vapor Annealing for Efficient Deep-Blue Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes","authors":"Shuang Xu, Dingding Tian, Xiaopeng Liang, Ruishan Wang, Wei Zhu, Shi Hu, Kuankuan Xiong, Zirong Fang, Lin Zhu, Nana Wang* and Jianpu Wang*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c0314310.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03143https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03143","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Achieving deep-blue emission is crucial for the practical application of perovskite light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in displays. Increasing the ratio of chlorine to bromine in the perovskite is a facile method to achieve deep-blue emission. However, the low solubility of chloride in the perovskite precursor solution and the low formation energy of defects present challenges that limit device efficiency. Here, we demonstrate a chloride vapor annealing method utilizing ethylammonium chloride (EAC) to enable in situ halide exchange and defect passivation. We find that the chloride ions from EAC can effectively exchange with the bromide ions in the perovskite, resulting in blue-shifted emission. Additionally, the ammonium group in EAC can coordinate with unsaturated lead, reducing trap-assisted nonradiative recombination. Based on this approach, we achieve efficient deep-blue perovskite LEDs with a peak external quantum efficiency of 6.8% and color coordinates of (0.131, 0.044), which fully meet the Rec. 2020 blue standard.</p>","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"15 50","pages":"12435–12440 12435–12440"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142850178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilizing Quantum Cascade Lasers for Ultranarrow Velocity Resolution and Quantum-State Selectivity in Molecular Beam Scattering and Spectroscopy","authors":"O. A. Krohn, David W. Chandler","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02927","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate the capability of a narrow linewidth quantum cascade laser (QCL) to selectively excite a very narrow velocity range of nitric oxide (σ ≤ 7(3) m/s) with a pure ro-vibrational quantum state. By implementing a counter-propagating geometry, the molecules are selectively excited according to the Doppler shift of the ro-vibrational transition frequency such that the velocity width associated with the excited molecules depends only on the QCL linewidth. We demonstrate a velocity distribution limited by the effective linewidth of our free-running QCL (Γ = 3.2 MHz). Our development provides a cost-effective, flexible approach to resolve quantum-state selective chemical dynamics with excellent velocity resolution in a wide variety of molecules with infrared-active transitions. This technique has been formulated to provide ultrahigh collisional energy resolution in molecular beams to delineate final quantum-state product pairs in studies of molecular collisions.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142809476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Differential Effects of Sequence-Local versus Nonlocal Charge Patterns on Phase Separation and Conformational Dimensions of Polyampholytes as Model Intrinsically Disordered Proteins”","authors":"Tanmoy Pal, Jonas Wessén, Suman Das, Hue Sun Chan","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03449","url":null,"abstract":"In the second last line of the caption for Figure 4 where the fitting parameters for Figure 4j are listed, “<i>a</i><sub>κ</sub> = 0.39” should read “<i>c</i><sub>κ</sub> = 0.39”. Since some of our methodology is based on ref 48 cited in this paper, it should be noted for accuracy that in the first term on the right-hand side of eq 27 of ref 48, “<i>n</i><sub>p</sub><i>Nn</i><sub>b</sub>” should read “<i>n</i><sub>p</sub><i>N</i>” (i.e., “<i>n</i><sub>b</sub>” should not be in this term). These errors were merely typographical. The results, discussion, and conclusions of the papers are not affected. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indranil Ghosh, Qijie Shen, Ping-Jui Eric Wu, Gregory S. Engel
{"title":"Vibronic Conical Intersection Trajectory Signatures in Wave Packet Coherences","authors":"Indranil Ghosh, Qijie Shen, Ping-Jui Eric Wu, Gregory S. Engel","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02979","url":null,"abstract":"Conical intersections are ubiquitous in the energy landscape of chemical systems, drive photochemical reactivity, and are extremely challenging to observe spectroscopically. Using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, we observe the nonadiabatic dynamics in Wurster’s Blue after excitation to the lowest two vibronic excited states. The excited populations relax ballistically through a conical intersection in 55 fs to the electronic ground state potential energy surface as the molecule undergoes an intramolecular electron transfer. While the kinetics are identical on both vibronic energy surfaces, we observe different patterns of coherent oscillations after traversing the conical intersection indicating distinct nonadiabatic relaxation pathways through the conical energetic funnel. These coherences are not created directly by the excitation pulses but are the result of the dynamical trajectories projecting differently on the conical intersection vibrational space. Our spectroscopic data offers a fresh perspective into the complex conical intersection topology and dynamics that emphasizes the critical involvement of the intersection space in dictating the dynamics.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angela Medvedeva, Catherine Vasnetsov, Victor Vasnetsov and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky*,
{"title":"Antimicrobial Peptides as Broad-Spectrum Therapeutics: Computational Analysis to Identify Universal Physical-Chemical Features Responsible for Multitarget Activity","authors":"Angela Medvedeva, Catherine Vasnetsov, Victor Vasnetsov and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c0319710.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03197https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03197","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) hold significant potential as broad-spectrum therapeutics due to their ability to target a variety of different pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses. However, the rational design of these peptides requires the molecular understanding of properties that enable such broad-spectrum activity. In this study, we present a computational analysis that utilizes machine-learning methods to distinguish peptides with single-target activity from those with activity against multiple pathogens. By optimizing a feature-selection procedure, the most relevant physical-chemical properties, such as dipeptide compositions, solvent accessibility, charge distributions, and optimal hydrophobicity, that differentiate between narrow-spectrum and broad-spectrum peptides are identified. Possible molecular scenarios responsible for the universality of these features are discussed. These findings provide valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms and rational design of multitarget AMPs.</p>","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"15 50","pages":"12416–12424 12416–12424"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142842021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angela Medvedeva, Catherine Vasnetsov, Victor Vasnetsov, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky
{"title":"Antimicrobial Peptides as Broad-Spectrum Therapeutics: Computational Analysis to Identify Universal Physical-Chemical Features Responsible for Multitarget Activity","authors":"Angela Medvedeva, Catherine Vasnetsov, Victor Vasnetsov, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03197","url":null,"abstract":"Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) hold significant potential as broad-spectrum therapeutics due to their ability to target a variety of different pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses. However, the rational design of these peptides requires the molecular understanding of properties that enable such broad-spectrum activity. In this study, we present a computational analysis that utilizes machine-learning methods to distinguish peptides with single-target activity from those with activity against multiple pathogens. By optimizing a feature-selection procedure, the most relevant physical-chemical properties, such as dipeptide compositions, solvent accessibility, charge distributions, and optimal hydrophobicity, that differentiate between narrow-spectrum and broad-spectrum peptides are identified. Possible molecular scenarios responsible for the universality of these features are discussed. These findings provide valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms and rational design of multitarget AMPs.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"239 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142809479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yue Wu, Tianhao Su, Bingsheng Du, Shunbo Hu, Jie Xiong, Deng Pan
{"title":"Kolmogorov–Arnold Network Made Learning Physics Laws Simple","authors":"Yue Wu, Tianhao Su, Bingsheng Du, Shunbo Hu, Jie Xiong, Deng Pan","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02589","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, contrastive learning has gained widespread adoption in machine learning applications to physical systems primarily due to its distinctive cross-modal capabilities and scalability. Building on the foundation of Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks (KANs) [Liu, Z. et al. Kan: Kolmogorov-arnold\u0000networks. <cite><i>arXiv</i></cite> <span>2024</span>, 2404.19756], we introduce a novel contrastive learning framework, Kolmogorov–Arnold Contrastive Crystal Property Pretraining (KCCP), which integrates the principles of CLIP and KAN to establish robust correlations between crystal structures and their physical properties. During the training process, we conducted a comparative analysis between Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and KAN, revealing that KAN significantly outperforms MLP in both accuracy and convergence speed for this task. By extending the capabilities of contrastive learning to the realm of physical systems, KCCP offers a promising approach for constructing cross-data structural and cross-modal physical models, representing an area of considerable potential.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142797847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aman Jindal*, Philipp Schienbein*, Prashant Kumar Gupta and Dominik Marx,
{"title":"Ion Effects on Terahertz Spectra of Microsolvated Clusters","authors":"Aman Jindal*, Philipp Schienbein*, Prashant Kumar Gupta and Dominik Marx, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c0290610.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02906https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02906","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Water clusters containing Na<sup>+</sup> and Cl<sup>–</sup> ions play a key role in the atmospheric chemistry of sea salt aerosols. While Na<sup>+</sup> is clearly buried deep inside, Cl<sup>–</sup> appears to be a chameleon since evidence for both surface-localized and interior solvation states are reported. Thus, disclosing the preferred location of Cl<sup>–</sup> within clusters remains challenging. Here, we investigate whether THz spectroscopy, a powerful tool for directly probing hydrogen bonds in water, provides insights into the location of Cl<sup>–</sup> ions in water clusters. We performed ab initio molecular dynamics simulations on water clusters containing a single Cl<sup>–</sup> ion and up to 64 water molecules to compute the THz spectra with reference to Na<sup>+</sup> and bulk. The THz spectrum of the 64-water Cl<sup>–</sup> cluster closely agrees with that of the bulk solution. Surprisingly, this match is not caused by bulk-like solvation of Cl<sup>–</sup> as suggested by phenomenological line shape analyses. Instead, the similarity stems from Cl<sup>–</sup> being mostly located at the cluster surface, thus leaving the water–water interactions largely unperturbed.</p>","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"15 50","pages":"12387–12392 12387–12392"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142842130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aman Jindal, Philipp Schienbein, Prashant Kumar Gupta, Dominik Marx
{"title":"Ion Effects on Terahertz Spectra of Microsolvated Clusters","authors":"Aman Jindal, Philipp Schienbein, Prashant Kumar Gupta, Dominik Marx","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02906","url":null,"abstract":"Water clusters containing Na<sup>+</sup> and Cl<sup>–</sup> ions play a key role in the atmospheric chemistry of sea salt aerosols. While Na<sup>+</sup> is clearly buried deep inside, Cl<sup>–</sup> appears to be a chameleon since evidence for both surface-localized and interior solvation states are reported. Thus, disclosing the preferred location of Cl<sup>–</sup> within clusters remains challenging. Here, we investigate whether THz spectroscopy, a powerful tool for directly probing hydrogen bonds in water, provides insights into the location of Cl<sup>–</sup> ions in water clusters. We performed ab initio molecular dynamics simulations on water clusters containing a single Cl<sup>–</sup> ion and up to 64 water molecules to compute the THz spectra with reference to Na<sup>+</sup> and bulk. The THz spectrum of the 64-water Cl<sup>–</sup> cluster closely agrees with that of the bulk solution. Surprisingly, this match is not caused by bulk-like solvation of Cl<sup>–</sup> as suggested by phenomenological line shape analyses. Instead, the similarity stems from Cl<sup>–</sup> being mostly located at the cluster surface, thus leaving the water–water interactions largely unperturbed.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142797848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yun Liu, Harold W. Hatch, Guangcui Yuan, Vincent K. Shen, Alexander V. Grishaev, Jainik Panchal, Marco Blanco
{"title":"Extracting Orientation and Distance-Dependent Interaction Potentials between Proteins in Solutions Using Small-Angle X-ray/Neutron Scattering","authors":"Yun Liu, Harold W. Hatch, Guangcui Yuan, Vincent K. Shen, Alexander V. Grishaev, Jainik Panchal, Marco Blanco","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02629","url":null,"abstract":"Nonspecific protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are key to understanding the behavior of proteins in solutions. However, experimentally measuring anisotropic PPIs as a function of orientation and distance has been challenging. Here, we propose to measure a new parameter, the generalized second virial coefficient, <i>B</i><sub>22</sub>(<i>Q</i>), to address this challenge. <i>B</i><sub>22</sub>(<i>Q</i>) can be measured by using small-angle X-ray/neutron scattering (SAXS/SANS) at finite <i>Q</i> values, where <i>Q</i> is the magnitude of the scattering wave vector. We develop the analytical theory here to calculate <i>B</i><sub>22</sub>(<i>Q</i>) with any known interprotein potentials including anisotropic interaction potentials. This method overcomes the challenges and limitations of commonly used methods for extracting PPI information, namely, using integral approximations to solve the Ornstein–Zernike equation by fitting SAXS/SANS data. The accuracy of this analytical theory is further evaluated with computer simulations using a model system. Not only can our method greatly extend the capability of SAXS/SANS to investigate PPIs of many proteins, but it is also applicable to a wide variety of colloidal systems where anisotropic interaction potentials are important.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142797846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}