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Here are papers authored by NERSC users that were featured on the cover of the scientific journal in which they were published.  You can sort according to any of the headings below.

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Origin of the Variation of Exciton Binding Energy in Semiconductors

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When a domain is not a domain, and why it is important to properly filter proteins in databases

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Freely decaying turbulence in two-dimensional electrostatic gyrokinetics

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Similarity-Driven Discovery of Zeolite Materials for Adsorption-Based Separations

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Intrinsic Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas

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Electron transport properties of carbon nanotube–graphene contacts

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Mechanistic study of droplets coalescence in Pickering emulsions

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Regional Climate–Weather Research and Forecasting Model

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Analysis of shot-to-shot variability in post-disruption runaway electron currents for diverted DIII-D discharges

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The halogen analogs of thiolated gold nanoclusters

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Mechanical Properties and Electronic Structure of Mullite Phases Using First-Principles Modeling

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The Role of Pendant Amines in the Breaking and Forming of Molecular Hydrogen Catalyzed by Nickel Complexes

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Curvature Effect on the Capacitance of Electric Double Layers at Ionic Liquid/Onion-Like Carbon Interfaces

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Hydrogen reactivity on highly-hydroxylated TiO2(110) surfaces prepared via carboxylic acid adsorption and photolysis

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Mn monolayer modified Rh for syngas-to-ethanol conversion: a first-principles study

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Rate-Determining Step in the NOx Reduction Mechanism on BaY Zeolites and the Importance of Long-Range Lattice Effects

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Graphene Moves Toward Applications

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Hierarchically Porous Graphene as a Lithium-Air Battery Electrode. See also http://pubs.acs.org/NanoLett (2011) 11, 5071–5078

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Architectural Simulation for Exascale Hardware/Software Co-design

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Special Issue on CoDesign for Systems and Applications, Vladimir Getov, Adolfy Hoisie, and Harvey Wasserman, guest editors

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Electronic structure of aqueous borohydride: a potential hydrogen storage medium

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On the hydration and hydrolysis of carbon dioxide

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Moving Protons with Pendant Amines: Proton Mobility in a Nickel Catalyst for Oxidation of Hydrogen

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Does Nitric Acid Dissociate at the Aqueous Solution Surface?

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Dielectric Nanodroplets: Structure, Stability, Thermodynamics, Shape Transitions and Electrocrystallization in Applied Electric Fields

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Gyrokinetic particle-in-cell optimization on emerging multi- and manycore platforms

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doi:10.1016/j.parco.2011.02.001

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SSC: A tool for constructing libraries for systematic screening of conformers

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DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21774

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Understanding the Surface Potential of Water

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Atomistic Simulation of Water Percolation and Proton Hopping in Nafion Fuel Cell Membrane

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Accuracy of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Point Defects in Solids

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State-to-state quantum dynamics of the O(3P)+OH(2Π)→H(2S)+O2(3Σg) reaction

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J. Chem. Phys. 133, 054302 (2010);

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Barrier-free tunneling in a carbon heterojunction transistor

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Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 033102 (2010)

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Magnetic X-Points, Edge Localized Modes, and Stochasticity

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2010, Vol. 17 (6), 062505

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New and Efficient Poisson−Boltzmann Solver for Interaction of Multiple Proteins

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2010, Vol. 6 (7), pp. 2214–2224

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Phase Transitions in Nanoconfined Fluids: The Evidence from Simulation and Theory

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Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy

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Nature 464, 571-574 (25 March 2010) | doi:10.1038/nature08879

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Dynameomics: A Comprehensive Database of Protein Dynamics

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14 March 2010, Vol. 18 (4), pp. 423-435

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Resolving Velocity Space Dynamics in Continuum Gyrokinetics

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2010, Vol. 17 (3), 032106

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Tropical cyclones and permanent El Nino in the early Pliocene epoch

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Nature 463, 1066-1070 (25 February 2010) |

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Current Status of the AMOEBA Polarizable Force Field

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Methane Activation and Catalytic Ethylene Formation on Free Au2

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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 980 –983

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First Principles Simulation of the Bonding, Vibrational, and Electronic Properties of the Hydration Shells of the High-Spin Fe3+ Ion in Aqueous Solutions

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2010, Vol. 114 (5), pp. 2189–2200

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Effects of co-solvents on peptide hydration water structure and dynamics

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2010, Vol. 12 (2), pp. 393-405

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Low-Swirl Combustion: Experiments and Simulations Working Together

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2010, No. 16, Special Issue 2010, pp. 16

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Methanol Synthesis from H2 and CO2 on a Mo6S8 Cluster: A Density Functional Study

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J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114 (11), pp 3888–3895

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The Effect of Sudden Source Buoyancy Flux Increases on Turbulent Plumes

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10 September 2009, Vol. 635, pp. 137-169

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Computational challenges for nanostructure solar cells

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2009, Vol. 2, pp. 944-955

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Reconnecting Magnetic Fields

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September-October 2009, Vol. 97 (5), pp. 392

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An Assessment of Full Wave Effects on the Propagation and Absorption of Lower Hybrid Wave

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2009, Vol. 16 (7), 072502

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Large Fields for Smaller Facility Sources

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Summer 2009, Issue 13, pp. 13-21

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Growth of Carbon Structures on Stepped (211)Co Surfaces

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2009, Vol. 113 (35), pp. 15658–15666

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Characterization of Redox States of Ru(OH2)(Q)(tpy)2+ (Q = 3,5-di-tert-butyl-1,2-benzoquinone, tpy = 2,2':6',2''-terpyridine) and Related Species through Experimental and Theoretical Studies

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May 2009, Vol. 48 (10), pp. 4372-4383

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Molecular and Atomic Hydrogen Interactions with Au−Ir Near-Surface Alloys

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2009, Vol. 113 (4), pp. 1411–1417

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Computational Investigation of the First Solvation Shell Structure of Interfacial and Bulk Aqueous Chloride and Iodide Ions

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2009, Vol. 113 (13), pp. 4141–4146

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Molecular Structure and Dynamics in Thin Water Films at the Silica and Graphite Surfaces

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2008, Vol. 112 (35), pp. 13587–13599

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Contrasting Disease and Nondisease Protein Aggregation by Molecular Simulation

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2008, Vol. 41 (8), pp. 1037–1047

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Simulation of high-power electromagnetic wave heating in the ITER burning plasma

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July 2008, Vol. 15, 072513

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Improved Energy Selection of Nativelike Protein Loops from Loop Decoys

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2008, Vol. 4 (3), pp. 515–521

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Isomer Energy Differences for the C4H3 and C4H5 Isomers Using Diffusion Monte Carlo

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2008, Vol. 112 (10), pp. 2065–2068

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Atomistic Simulations of Hydrated Nafion and Temperature Effects on Hydronium Ion Mobility

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2007, Vol. 111 (25), pp. 7234–7244

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Characterization of intact subcellular bodies in whole bacteria by cryo-electron tomography and spectroscopic imaging

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July 2006, Vol. 223 (1), pp. 40–52

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Lattice strain effects on CO oxidation on Pt(111)

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2006, Vol. 8 (29), pp. 3369-3374

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A New Mechanism for Gravitational-Wave Emission in Core-Collapse Supernovae

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Phys. Rev. Lett. » Volume 96 » Issue 20

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Computational studies of molecular hydrogen binding affinities: The role of dispersion forces, electrostatics, and orbital interactions

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2006, Vol. 8 (12), pp. 1357-1370

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Numerical Simulation of a Laboratory-Scale Turbulent V-Flame

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Integrated Simulation of Fusion Plasmas

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February 2005, Vol. 58 (2), pp. 35-40

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High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding

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30 September 2004, Vol. 431, pp. 541-544