News 2026
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• January 5: Zitong joins our group as a Ph.D. student.
• January 27: Our article Surface-specific and bulk field-induced contributions to vibrational sum-frequency
generation spectra at charged graphene oxide/water interfaces is posted on ChemRxiv.
• January 27: Our article Microsolvation of protonated glycine: Infrared spectra from data-driven quantum
many-body simulations is posted on ChemRxiv.
• February 5: MBX becomes an official package of LAMMPS.
• February 7: Our group participates in the 8th SoCal TheoChem Symposium at CSU Fullerton.
• February 16: Our article Surface-specific and bulk field- induced contributions to vibrational sum-frequency
generation spectra at charged graphene oxide/water interfaces is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry
Letters.
• March 1: Our article Heterogeneity of free O–H groups at the air/water interface is published in the Journal of
Physical Chemistry Letters.
• March 5: Our article Hydration free energies of alkali and halide ions from data-driven many-body potentials is
posted on ChemRxiv.
• March 9: Our article QUICK and robust ESP and RESP charges for computational biochemistry: Open-source GPU
implementation in collaboration with the Götz group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center is published in the
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.
• March 15-20: Richa, Zoe, Alison, Xuanyu, Henry, Suman, and Francesco present our research at the APS Global
Summit in Denver.
• March 22-26: Richa and Francesco present our research ar the ACS National Meeting in Atlanta.
• March 26: MBX is interfaced with the Atomic Simulation Environment.
• March 26: Our perspective Catching water’s hidden transition is published in Science.
• March 29: Huge congratulations to our amazing high schooler Olivia on being admitted to UC San Diego, UC
Berkeley, Caltech, and Imperial College.
• March 30: We say goodbye to Saeyeon, who spent the past 6 months with us from Korea University.
• April 1: Jasper joins our group as a Ph.D. student.
