Dr Odile Smits
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Mathematics and Physics

Publications
Journal Articles
Cooper, Shaun, Robles-Navarro, Andres, Smits, Odile R. and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2025). The theory of Barlow packings: Basic properties and cohesive energies from exact lattice summations within the sticky hard-sphere model. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 162 (1) 014105, 1. doi: 10.1063/5.0241375
Cooper, Shaun, Robles-Navarro, Andres, Smits, Odile R. and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2024). From hard to soft dense sphere packings: the cohesive energy of barlow structures using exact lattice summations for a general Lennard-Jones potential. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15 (32), 8387-8392. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01986
Florez, Edison, Smits, Odile R., Mewes, Jan-Michael, Jerabek, Paul and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2022). From the gas phase to the solid state: the chemical bonding in the superheavy element flerovium. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 157 (6) 064304, 1-6. doi: 10.1063/5.0097642
Smits, Odile R., Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Jerabek, Paul and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2021). Oganesson: a noble gas element that is neither noble nor a gas. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59 (52), 23636-23640. doi: 10.1002/anie.202011976
Smits, Odile R., Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Jerabek, Paul and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2020). Oganesson: Ein Edelgas, das weder edel noch ein Gas ist. Angewandte Chemie, 132 (52), 23843-23848. doi: 10.1002/ange.202011976
Schwerdtfeger, Peter, Smits, Odile R. and Pyykkö, Pekka (2020). The periodic table and the physics that drives it. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 4 (7), 359-380. doi: 10.1038/s41570-020-0195-y
Smits, O. R., Jerabek, P., Pahl, E. and Schwerdtfeger, P. (2020). First-principles melting of krypton and xenon based on many-body relativistic coupled-cluster interaction potentials. Physical Review B, 101 (10) 104103, 10. doi: 10.1103/physrevb.101.104103
Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Smits, Odile R., Kresse, Georg and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2019). Copernicium: A Relativistic Noble Liquid. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (50), 17964-17968. doi: 10.1002/anie.201906966
Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Smits, Odile R., Kresse, Georg and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2019). Copernicium: A Relativistic Noble Liquid. Angewandte Chemie, 131 (50), 18132-18136. doi: 10.1002/ange.201906966
Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Jerabek, Paul, Smits, Odile R. and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2019). Oganesson Is a Semiconductor: On the Relativistic Band‐Gap Narrowing in the Heaviest Noble‐Gas Solids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (40), 14260-14264. doi: 10.1002/anie.201908327
Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Jerabek, Paul, Smits, Odile R. and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2019). Oganesson ist ein Halbleiter: Über die relativitische Bandlückenkontraktion in den schwersten Edelgasen. Angewandte Chemie, 131 (40), 14398-14402. doi: 10.1002/ange.201908327
Smits, Odile R., Jerabek, Paul, Pahl, Elke and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2018). A Hundred‐Year‐Old Experiment Re‐evaluated: Accurate Ab Initio Monte Carlo Simulations of the Melting of Radon. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57 (31), 9961-9964. doi: 10.1002/anie.201803353
Smits, Odile R., Jerabek, Paul, Pahl, Elke and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2018). Ein hundert Jahre altes Experiment auf dem Prüfstand: hochgenaue Ab‐Initio‐Monte‐Carlo‐Schmelzsimulationen von Radon. Angewandte Chemie, 130 (31), 10109-10113. doi: 10.1002/ange.201803353