Similar to the importance of XRD in experiments, ab initio calculations, as a powerful tool, have been applied to predict the new potential materials and investigate the intrinsic properties of materials in theory. As a typical solid-solution material, the large degree of uncertainty of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) results in the difficulty of ab initio calculations application to HEAs. The prese...

This article focuses on the development of an approach for ab initio protein structure prediction (PSP) without using any earlier knowledge from similar protein structures, as fragment-based statistics or inference of secondary structures. Such an approach is called purely ab initio prediction. The article shows that well-designed multiobjective evolutionary algorithms can predict relevant prot...

This paper describes a hybrid ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method for calculating activation free energies of chemical reactions in solution, using molecular mechanics force fields for the solvent and an ab initio technique that incorporates the potential from the solvent in its Hamiltonian for the solute. The empirical valence bond (EVB) method is used as a referenc...

We present a novel method, HMMSTR-CM, for protein contact map predictions. Contact potentials were calculated by using HMMSTR, a hidden Markov model for local sequence structure correlations. Targets were aligned against protein templates using a Bayesian method, and contact maps were generated by using these alignments. Contact potentials then were used to evaluate these templates. An ab initi...

The core structures of screw and edge dislocations on the basal and prism planes in Mg, and the associated gamma surfaces, were studied using an ab initio method and the embedded-atom-method interatomic potentials developed by Sun et al and Liu et al. The ab initio calculations predict that the basal plane dislocations dissociate into partials split by 16.7 Å (edge) and 6.3 Å (screw), as compar...

Ab initio calculation based on density function theory (DFT) is an accurate and efficient method for modelling material properties. It is performed by solving the Shrödinger equations with a few assumptions to obtain the physical properties of the system. It is very computational demanding when dealing with large systems or longtime simulations. Developing empirical potentials on the basis of a...

The state-selective photodissociation of methylnitrite CH30NO(So,v) + hv -+ CH30+ NO(t,r,v) is reviewed and the dynamics of the bond-breaking process is analysed in connection with an ab initio S1-potential energy surface of the parent molecule. Experimental and theoretical results reveal an interesting picture of the dissociation path of a polyatomic molecule which decays by vibrational predis...

and valence bond method, solvent effects on S N 2 reaction, and Monte Carlo simulations of chemical reaction in solution. Abstract: A mixed molecular orbital and valence bond (MOVB) method is described in combined ab initio QM/MM simulations of the S N 2 reaction of Cl-+ CH 3 Cl _ ClCH 3 + Cl-in water. The method is based on the construction of individual charge-localized, diabatic states using...