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October 30, 2024 The application “Helium Compression Chamber: an in silico tool to investigate benzene nanothread formation mechanisms under pressure” to the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) has been awarded 1M CPU hours on the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Jorge Laranjeira led the proposal preparation. Congratulations!

September 9, 2024 Bo Chen gave a contributed talk, titled “A new computational method to apply pressure to molecular systems and its applications to high-pressure organic reactions” at the 61st European High Pressure Research Group Meeting (EHPRG2024) in Thessaloniki, Greece September 1-6, 2024

July 29, 2024 Two members of the group attended the Research at High Pressure Gordon Research Seminar July 13 – July 14, 2024 and the Research at High Pressure Gordon Research Conference July 14 – July 19, 2024 in Holderness, New Hampshire, United States. Mohammed Loukili presented a poster titled “Switch of periselectiviy of Butadiene and Tetrafluoroehtylene Cycloaddition under high pressure”. Jorge Laranjeira presented a poster titled “Helium Compression Chamber: a viable alternative to in silico study of reaction mechanisms under pressure”. ... Read more …

July 1, 2024 Cristina Domínguez Escobar, currently a Bachelor student at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) joins the group for 2-month summer research. Welcome!

June 26, 2024 Prof. Sebastian Kozuch (https://tzin.bgu.ac.il/~kozuch/) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel visited our group at DIPC June 24-26 and gave a seminar on heavy atom tunneling (https://youtube.com/live/tN66TZimQRE).

June 17, 2024 Bo Chen gave an invited talk titled “Tunneling in hydrogen transfer reactions under pressure” at the XXIst International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling Systems (QAMTS2024), held in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, June 16-21, 2024. The same talk is recorded afterwards in a group meeting: Your browser does not support the video tag.

May 2, 2024 Jorge Laranjeira, PhD from University of Aveiro, Portugal joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!

March 14, 2024 Prof. Roberto Cammi (https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=miYfjYsAAAAJ&hl=it) from University of Parma, Italy visited our group at DIPC March 12-14. He is an expert on the PCM method and the orginator of the XP-PCM method. We are excited to have him here and happy about our continuous collaboration on exploring high-pressure reactions with the XP-PCM method.

August 1, 2023 Dr. Kuo Li (http://www.hpstar.ac.cn/channels/463.html) from Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China visited our group at DIPC July 31 - August 1. He gave a talk titled “Synthesis of the multi-dimensional nano-carbon materials and the reaction mechanisms” at DIPC on August 1. https://youtu.be/y98fUnXJBv4 ... Read more …

July 3, 2023 BRYAN ALEXIS MELO FLORES, currently a Master student at University of Bacelona joins the group for 2-month summer research. Welcome!