Theoretical & Computational Studies of Molecular Dynamics

埃默里大学的Joel Bowman获得了化学理论，模型和计算方法计划的奖项，以开发复杂的计算方法来建模和深入研究水的性质及其与离子和其他分子的相互作用，这些分子在生命系统中很重要。水是维持地球上所有生命的最重要物质。 人体重量的70%是水。 每天都有水以液态、固态（冰）和气态（云）的形式出现。 虽然水就在我们身边，但它也是一种独特的物质，具有迷人的特性。水是由大量的简单的H2O分子通过形成“氢键”而相互结合而成的。“这些氢键有助于赋予水独特的特性。 水还与蛋白质和离子等许多其他重要分子相互作用，从而在维持生命方面发挥重要作用。 鲍曼小组开发了水及其与其他分子和离子相互作用的模型，并使用这些模型来预测和解释实验结果。 他们与领先的实验研究小组密切合作。Bowman和他的同事应用严格的量子化学方法和专门的拟合方法来获得描述纯净水、离子水和离子对水的高度精确、非经验、多体势和偶极矩表面。 这些势和偶极矩表面与振动动力学的复杂量子处理一起使用，以获得高度精确和预测的观测值，例如IR光谱、振动弛豫、径向分布函数等。用于势、偶极矩表面和振动分析的软件，其是非常通用的并且可以用于任何多原子分子或分子簇。

Joel Bowman of Emory University is supported by an award from the Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods program to develop sophisticated computational approaches to model and delve deeply into the properties of water and its interactions with ions and other molecules that are important in living systems. Water is the most important substance for sustaining all life on our planet. Humans are nearly 70% water by weight. Water is seen in liquid, solid (ice) and gaseous (clouds) forms every day. Although it is all around us, water is also a unique substance that has intriguing properties. Water is made from large numbers of simple H2O molecules that stick to each other by making "hydrogen bonds." These hydrogen bonds help give water its unique character. Water also interacts with many other important molecules such as proteins and ions, thereby playing a major role in sustaining life. The Bowman group develops models of water and its interactions with other molecules and ions, and uses these models to predict and explain the results of experiments. They work closely with leading experimental research groups. Bowman and coworkers apply rigorous methods of quantum chemistry and specialized fitting methods to obtain highly accurate, non-empirical, many-body potential and dipole moment surfaces describing neat water, ion-water, and ion-pair water. These potentials and dipole moment surfaces are used with sophisticated quantum treatments of the vibrational dynamics to obtain highly accurate and predictive observables, such as the IR spectra, vibrational relaxation, radial distribution functions, etc. The software for the potentials, dipole moment surfaces and vibrational analysis, which is very general and can be used for any polyatomic molecule or molecular cluster will be made freely available to others in the community via a web interface.