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Adam Willard @WillardLab

We are a research group in the Chemistry Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joined November 2017
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Let us all work together to make things better. I pledge to oppose racism and hate through active allyship, continuous unlearning, learning, and listening.
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MIT Chemistry@ChemistryMIT
11 May 2020
Congratulations to our nineteen students who have been selected to receive prestigious graduate fellowships from @NSF! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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MIT Chemistry@ChemistryMIT
11 May 2020
Congratulations to Professor Yogesh Surendranath (@yogi_chem) and Professor Adam P. Willard (@WillardLab), who have been granted Tenure effective July 1, 2020! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Excited to announce that I've received tenure! I could not have done this without the support of my friends, colleagues, and mentors. Not to mention the outstanding students and postdocs that I have had the pleasure of working with.
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Will Tisdale@TisdaleWA
10 May 2020
Since he’s not going to announce it himself, I’ll go ahead and do it for him: CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Adam Willard on receiving tenure. You are a friend and a huge scientific influence for me. Thank you for being awesome. @WillardLab @ChemistryMIT
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Congratulations Dr. Kaitlyn Dwelle! A wonderful job in defending your thesis remotely.
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If you are looking for a distraction, check out our latest paper. This paper explores how microscopic electrostatic fluctuations are modified when species approach an electrode surface. aip.scitation.org/doi/10.106…

Understanding attenuated solvent reorganization energies near electrode interfaces

In this manuscript, we examine the role of image charge effects on the electrostatic potential fluctuations experienced by ionic species in the vicinity of an e

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Interested in designing electrolyte materials for batteries. Traditional design rules might not work if your battery is tiny. Great work Kaitlyn! aip.scitation.org/doi/full/1…

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UChicago Chemistry
@UChiChemistry
14 Feb 2020
Congrats to @suri_lab for his recent promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! His group has become a leader in the theory around non-equlibrium systems. Congrats to Suri and HUGE congrats to the entire Vaikuntanathan Group for making this happen!!!
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Want to design molecular excitonic circuits that carry out the action of quantum logic gates? Look no further than our latest paper. Excellent work Maria and Amr! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Check out our latest publication. We use theory to examine interfacial electron transfer within the double layer. Great work Adi! @adityal pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…

Modeling Interfacial Electron Transfer in the Double Layer: The Interplay between Electrode...

In this manuscript, we present a theoretical model for studying the population dynamics of electrochemical systems within the region of the electrical double layer. We formulate this model in a...

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I’ll use my first tweet of the new year to welcome our newest graduate student, Dina Sharon. She’s looking forward to tackling some important problems in biomolecular hydration!
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The Jeremiah Johnson Group@johnsonchem
20 Nov 2019
Now online!!! Check out our most recent paper in @angew_chem on polyMOC gels with photoswitchable juntions supported by @CciMonet! Congratulations Nate, Peter, and our collaborators @CraigGroup_Duke, @WillardLab, and Van Vooris group! @ChemistryMIT onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Photoswitchable Sol–Gel Transitions and Catalysis Mediated by Polymer Networks with Coumarin‐Deco...

Supramolecular polymer metal–organic cage (polyMOC) gels with Cu24L24 cuboctahedral junctions featuring a high density of coumarin ligands were prepared. These robust, dynamic materials could be...

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Happy to share our latest paper on efficiently modeling electrochemically active interfaces. Excellent work Kaitlyn! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

Constant Potential, Electrochemically Active Boundary Conditions for Electrochemical Simulation

In this manuscript, we present a model for simulating active electrochemical systems using a classical molecular dynamics framework. We describe a computationally efficient method of enforcing the...

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Check out our latest publication on the dynamical flow properties of quantum state space. Excellent work Amr! aip.scitation.org/doi/10.106…

State space distribution and dynamical flow for closed and open quantum systems

We present a general formalism for studying the effects of heterogeneity in open quantum systems. We develop this formalism in the state space of density operat

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The Jeremiah Johnson Group@johnsonchem
5 Aug 2019
Our group has put out our first preprint in @ChemRxiv!!! Check it out in the link below! Congratulations Nate, Peter, and our collaborators @CraigGroup_Duke, @WillardLab, and the Van Voorhis group! doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.91… @MIT @ChemistryMIT @DukeChemistry
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Hot off the presses. Congrats Liza! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…

Solving the Trivial Crossing Problem While Preserving the Nodal Symmetry of the Wave Function

In an adiabatic mixed quantum-classical simulation, the avoided crossing of weakly coupled eigenstates can lead to unphysical discontinuities in wave function dynamics, otherwise known as the trivial...

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Congratulations to Dr. Eric Alt!
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Bin Zhang@binzmit
10 May 2019
Our work on nucleosome unwinding is highlighted as Editor's pick in J Chem. Phys (aip.scitation.org/doi/10.106…). Check out the accompanying news release as well (aip.scitation.org/doi/10.106…).

Critical role of histone tail entropy in nucleosome unwinding

The nucleosome is the fundamental packaging unit for the genome. It must remain tightly wound to ensure genome stability while simultaneously being flexible eno

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Yuen-Zhou Research Group UCSD@ucsd_yuen
8 May 2019
Here are more photos of Adam Willard @WillardLab @ChemistryMIT teaching us how to think about interfaces of water. He also taught us about vibrationally adiabatic rxns. It was great having him at @UCSDPhySci @UCSDChemBiochem !
Paesani Lab
@PaesaniLab
7 May 2019
Adam Willard (@WillardLab) takes the stage to tell us the latest and greatest about #water interfaces from #compchem simulations. @UCSDPhySci @UCSDChemBiochem
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