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Multiscale Sampling of a Heterogeneous Water/Metal Catalyst Interface using Density Functional Theory and Force-Field Molecular Dynamics
Published on: April 12, 2019
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Focus point on uncertainty quantification of modeling and simulation in physics and related areas: from theoretical
Juan Carlos Cortés1, Tomás Caraballo2, Carla M A Pinto3
1Instituto Universitario de Matemática Multidisciplinar, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.
European Physical Journal Plus
|January 23, 2023
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