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Maria Alexandra Gomez was a Co-PI on National Science Foundation (NSF) project: MRI: Expansion of the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry (MERCURY) via Addition of High Performance Computers awarded to Furman University. The project is for three years. 

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Gomez, M. A., Brooks-Randall, S., Cai, G., Glass-Klaiber, J., Jiang, Y., Jo, S., Lin, Z., Lin, S., Marcellus, M., Nguyen, H. A., Pham, T., Wang, Y., Zhai, F., Gya, P., Khan, S. (2021). Graph analysis of proton conduction pathways in scandium-doped barium zirconate. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 154(7), 074711. doi:10.1063/5.0039103


Patel, M., Zhong, J., Gomez-Haibach, K. S., Gomez, M. A., & King, G. (2020). Low-energy Sr2MSbO5.5(M = Ca and Sr) structures show significant distortions near oxygen vacancies. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. doi:10.1002/qua.26356


Torayev, A., Sperrin, L., Gomez, M. A., Kattirtzi, J. A., Merlet, C., & Grey, C. P. (2020). Local Distortions and Dynamics in Hydrated Y-Doped BaZrO3. J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces, 124(30), 16689-16701. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c04594


Du, P., Chen, Q., Fan, Z., Pan, H., Haibach, F. G., Gomez, M. A., & Braun, A. (2020). Cooperative origin of proton pair diffusivity in yttrium substituted barium zirconate. Communications Physics, 3(1). doi:10.1038/s42005-020-00464-5


Lin, Z., Lin, S., Tian, Y., Van Bokkelen, A., Valerio, M., & Gomez, M. A. (2020). Oxygen Vacancies Altering the Trapping in the Proton Conduction Landscape of Doped Barium Zirconate. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(51), 27954-27964. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09461