Chenning Wang, Xiaolong Yi, Xuan Zhang, Yongtao Wang, Haoran Li, Kenji Mochizuki*, Jia Yao*, Hydrogen Bond Microenvironment Regulation by Trifluoroethanol in 1,1-Dimethylguanidine Catalyzed α-Hydroxylation, submitted
Yifeng Yao, Kenji Mochizuki*, Nuclear quantum criticality in high-pressure ice, submitted
Pablo F. Ibanez Ibanez, Xuan Zhang, Ben Wang, Yifeng Yao, Kenji Mochizuki*, Mechanistic Origin of the Absence of Pressure-Induced Amorphization in NH4F vs. Ice: The Role of an Intermediate Rotator Phase, submitted
Hiroki Kobayashi*, Kazuki Komatsu, Kenji Mochizuki, Hayate Ito, Koichi Momma, Shinichi Machida, Takanori Hattori, Kunio Hirata, Yoshiaki Kawano, Saori Maki-Yonekura, Kiyofumi Takaba, Koji Yonekura, Qianli Xue, Misaki Sato, and Hiroyuki Kagi, New metastable ice phases via supercooled water, submitted
Aoran Cui^, Xiao Hong^, Yue Liu^, Kenji Mochizuki^, Xuan Zhang, Ning An, Xueyan Chen, Mi Yan, Zhaoyue Xia, Qilong Zhang, and Shikuan Yang*, Electrodepositing freestanding ultrathin membranes at the air-water interface, submitted
Yao Fu, Yifeng Yao, Subhradip Paul, Kenji Mochizuki*, Gaël De Paëpe*, Water-generated dangling linkers in a metal-organic framework, Nat. Comm. (2026)
Yongtao Wang,* Xuan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Shiyi Tang, Jia Yao, Kenji Mochizuki,* and Haoran Li*, Branched Hydrogen-Bond Motifs as Quantitative Signatures of the Structure and Dynamics of Liquid Alcohols, J. Chem. Phys. 164 (6), 064505 (2026)
Qianli Xue, Kenji Mochizuki*, Stability of Hydrogen-Filled Hexagonal Ice Under High Pressure, J. Chem. Phys. 163 (23), 234702 (2025), Special Topics: Carlos Vega Festschrift
Xuan Zhang, Minglin Wu, Kenji Mochizuki*, Liquid-phase epitaxy to ice VI and ice XII in accordance with Ostwald’s step rule, J. Chem. Phys. 163 (23), 234504 (2025), Special Topics: Festschrift in honor of Christoph Dellago: Exploring Paths and Barriers in Statistical Mechanics
Pablo F. Ibanez Ibanez and Kenji Mochizuki*, Proton dynamics crossover and hydrogen-bond symmetrization in close-packed ice nanotubes, J. Phys. Chem. C, 129, 14311–14317 (2025)
Kenji Mochizuki*, Qianli Xue, Crystallization of Ice Ic from Ice XVII: Outward, then Inward, Cryst. Growth Des., 25 (5), 1628–1635 (2025), Special Issue: Heterogeneous Drivers of Ice Formation
Masanari Nagasaka*, Yifeng Yao, Kenji Mochizuki, Oxygen K-edge inner-shell calculations of polymers in solutions realized by the extraction of local structures from molecular dynamics simulations, J. Chem. Phys., 162, 054901 (2025)
Kenji Mochizuki*, Yifeng Yao, and Kazuki Komatsu, Absence of amorphous forms when ice XIc is compressed at low temperature, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 15 (43), 10734–10741 (2024)
Xuan Zhang, Masakazu Matsumoto, Zhisen Zhang, and Kenji Mochizuki*, Multitwinned Ice Nanocrystals, ACS Nano, 18 (45), 31021–31030 (2024)
Kenji Mochizuki*, Hydrogen-ordering in ice Ih facilitates the transition from HDA to ice XII, J. Phys. Chem. C, 128 (43), 18582-18587 (2024), Special Issue: Heterogeneous Drivers of Ice Formation
Xuan Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Zuyu Wen, Yongtao Wang, Haoran Li, Kenji Mochizuki*, Jia Yao*, The Key Roles of Free Cations in Modulating the Reaction Rate in Imidazolium Ionic Liquid-Dimethyl Sulfoxide Mixtures, J. Phys. Chem. B, 128 (41), 10200-10206 (2024)
Yifeng Yao, Masanari Nagasaka, and Kenji Mochizuki*, Salt-specific effect on the Solubility and Aggregation of 1-Butanol in Water, Physica A, 647, 129917 (2024)
Xuan Zhang and Kenji Mochizuki*, Hydrogen-bond linking is crucial for growing ice VII embryos, J. Chem. Phys., 160, 214506 (2024), Special Collection: Water: Molecular Origins of its Anomalies
Masanari Nagasaka*, Fumitoshi Kumaki, Yifeng Yao, Jun-ichi Adachi, and Kenji Mochizuki, Mechanism of Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) Cononsolvency in Aqueous Methanol Solutions Explored via Oxygen K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 26, 13634-13638 (2024)
Kenji Mochizuki*, Yuji Adachi, and Kenichiro Koga*, Close-packed Ices in Nanopores, ACS Nano, 18, 347–354 (2024)
Xuan Zhang, Yifeng Yao, HongYi Li, Andre Python*, and Kenji Mochizuki*, Fast crystal growth of Ice VII due to the decoupling of translational and rotational ordering, Commun. Phys., 6, 164 (2023)
Youyou Lu, Xuan Zhang, Liyan Zhao, Hong Liu, Mi Yan, Xiaochen Zhang, Kenji Mochizuki*, and Shikuan Yang*, Metal Organic Framework Template-Guided Electrochemical Lithography on Substrates for SERS Sensing Applications, Nat. Comm., 14, 5860 (2023)
Yao Fu, Yifeng Yao, Alexander C. Forse, Gaël De Paëpe, Kenji Mochizuki, Jeffrey R. Long, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Xueqian Kong*, Solvent-derived defects suppress adsorption in MOF-74, Nat. Comm., 14, 1386 (2023)
K. Mochizuki*, K. Murata*, and X. Zhang, Microscopic ordering of supercooled water on the ice basal face, Commun. Mater., 4, 33 (2023)
K. Mochizuki*, The packing parameter of bare surfactant does not necessarily indicate morphological changes, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 631, 17-21 (2023)
X. Zhang, Y. Wang, J. Yao, H. Li, and K. Mochizuki*, A tiny charge-scaling in the OPLS-AA + L-OPLS force field delivers the realistic dynamics and structure of liquid primary alcohols, J. Comput. Chem., 43 (6), 421-430 (2022)
D. Zhou, L-S. Wan, Z-K. Xu, and K. Mochizuki*, Less-Ordered Hydration Shell around Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) is Insensitive to the Clouding Transition, J. Phys. Chem. B, 125 (43), 12104-12109 (2021)
K. Mochizuki*, Absorption of mechanical energy via formation of ice nanotubes in zeolites, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 23 (36), 20307-20312 (2021)
K. Mochizuki*, On-off of co-non-solvency for poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) in alcohol-water mixtures: a molecular dynamics study, J. Phys. Chem. B, 124 (44), 9951-9957 (2020)
N. Kimura, K. Mochizuki, K. Umezawa, M. H. Hecht, R. Arai*, Hyperstable De Novo Proteins with a Dimeric Bisecting Topology, ACS Synth. Biol., 9 (2), 254-259 (2020)
K. Mochizuki*, Reduction of water-mediated repulsion drives poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) collapse upon heating, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 22 (3), 1053-1060 (2020), 2019 PCCP Hot Articles
R. Mahesta, K. Mochizuki*, Stepwise Homogeneous Melting of Benzene Phase I under High Pressures, Crystals, 9 (6), 279 (2019)
K. Mochizuki*, M. Matsumoto, Collective transformation of water between hyperactive antifreeze proteins: RiAFP, Crystals, 9 (4), 188 (2019)
K. Mochizuki*, Computational Study on Homogeneous Melting of Benzene Phase I, Crystals, 9 (2), 84 (2019)
H. Kondo, K. Mochizuki (co-first author), M. Bayer-Giraldi*, Multiple binding modes of a moderate ice-binding protein from a polar microalga, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 20 (39), 25295-25303 (2018)
M. Nagasaka*, H. Yuzawa, K. Mochizuki, E. Ruhl, N. Kosugi, Temperature Dependent Structural Changes in Liquid Benzene, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9 (19), 5827-5832 (2018)
K. Mochizuki, V. Molinero*, Antifreeze glycoproteins bind reversibly to ice via hydrophobic groups, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140 (14), 4803-4811 (2018), Cover Article
T. Sumi*, Y. Maruyama, A. Mitsutake, K. Mochizuki and K. Koga, Application of reference-modified density functional theory: Temperature and pressure dependences of solvation free energy, J. Comput. Chem., 39 (4), 202-217 (2018)
K. Mochizuki, Y. Qiu, V. Molinero*, Promotion of Homogeneous Ice Nucleation by Soluble Molecules, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139 (47), 17003–17006 (2017)
K. Mochizuki*, T. Sumi, K. Koga, Influence of Co-non-solvency on Hydrophobic Molecules Driven by Excluded Volume Effect, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19 (35), 23915 - 23918 (2017)
K. Mochizuki* and D. Ben-Amotz, Hydration shell transformation of thermo-sensitive aqueous polymers, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8 (7), 1360-1365 (2017)
I. Hatano, K. Mochizuki, T. Sumi and K. Koga*, A hydrophobic polymer chain in water that undergoes the coil-to-globule transition near room temperature, J. Phys. Chem. B, 120 (47), 12127-12134 (2016)
S. R. Pattenaude, B. M. Rankin, K. Mochizuki, and D. Ben-Amotz*, Water-Mediated Aggregation of 2-Butoxyethanol, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18 (36), 24937-24943 (2016)
K. Mochizuki*, S. R. Pattenaude and D. Ben-Amotz, Influence of cononsolvency on the aggregation of tertiary butyl alcohol in methanol-water mixtures, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138 (29), 9045-9048 (2016)
K. Mochizuki* and K. Koga, Cononsolvency behavior of hydrophones in water+methanol mixtures, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18 (24), 16188-16195 (2016)
K. Mochizuki*, T. Sumi and K. Koga, Liquid-liquid phase separation of N-isopropylpropionamide aqueous solutions above the lower critical solution temperature, Scientific Reports, 6 (1), 24657 (2016)
K. Mochizuki*, T. Sumi and K. Koga, Driving forces for the pressure-induced aggregation of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in water, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18 (6), 4697-4703 (2016)
K. Mochizuki* and K. Koga*, Solid-liquid critical behavior of a cylinder confined Lennard-Jones fluid, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17 (28), 18437-18442 (2015)
K. Mochizuki* and K. Koga*, Solid-liquid critical behavior of water in nanopores, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 112 (27), 8221-8226 (2015)
K. Mochizuki, K. Himoto and M. Matsumoto*, Diversity of transition pathways in the course of crystallization into ice VII, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16 (31), 16419-16425 (2014)
M. Nagasaka, K. Mochizuki, V. Leloup, and N. Kosugi*, Local structures of methanol-water binary solutions studied by soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. B, 118 (16), 4388-4396 (2014)
K. Mochizuki*, C.S. Whittieston, S. Somani, H. Kusumaatmaja, and D.J. Wales*, A conformational factorization approach for estimating the binding free energies of macromolecules, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16 (7), 2842-2853 (2014), Cover Article, This week's HOT articles (18 Nov 2013)
K. Mochizuki*, M. Matsumoto, and I. Ohmine, Defect pair separation as the controlling step in homogeneous ice melting, Nature, 498 (7454), 350-354 (2013), Cover Article
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