[HTML][HTML] Modelling of Metal Nanoparticles' Structures and Dynamics under Reaction Conditions

X Duan, Y Han, B Zhu, Y Gao - Materials Today Catalysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal nanoparticles (NPs) are widely used in heterogeneous catalysis. Their performance in
catalytic reactions is closely related to the shape, surface structure, and composition. In the …

Advances in simulating dilute alloy nanoparticles for catalysis

JN El Berch, M Salem, G Mpourmpakis - Nanoscale, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Dilute alloy (DA) catalysts, including single-atom alloys (SAAs), which are comprised of trace
amounts of an active promoter metal dispersed on the surface of a selective host metal, offer …

Cu–Ni Oxidation Mechanism Unveiled: A Machine Learning-Accelerated First-Principles and in Situ TEM Study

P Wisesa, M Li, MT Curnan, GH Gu, JW Han… - Nano Letters, 2025 - ACS Publications
The development of accurate methods for determining how alloy surfaces spontaneously
restructure under reactive and corrosive environments is a key, long-standing, grand …

A new compositional microscopic degree of freedom at grain boundaries in complex compounds: a case study in spinel

P Hatton, BP Uberuaga - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The accurate computational treatment of polycrystalline materials requires the rigorous
generation of grain boundary (GB) structures as many quantities of interest depend strongly …

Sampling vacancy configurations with large relaxations using Smart Darting

D Tanguy - Physical Review Materials, 2024 - APS
Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations, combining the sampling of the position of the
particles and their chemical nature, are very useful when calculating, for example, average …

Atomic scale understanding of initial Cu-Ni oxidation from machine-learning accelerated first-principles simulations and in situ TEM experiments

P Wisesa, M Li, MT Curnan, JW Han, JC Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The development of accurate methods for determining how alloy surfaces spontaneously
restructure under reactive and corrosive environments is a key, long-standing, grand …

Recent advances in accelerated molecular dynamics methods: Theory and applications

D Perez, T Lelièvre - … Computational Chemistry, First …, 2023 - lanlexperts.elsevierpure.com
By providing fully spatio-temporally-resolved atomistic trajectories, Molecular Dynamics
(MD) simulations can reveal fundamental characteristics of the thermodynamics and kinetics …

Revealing Atomic Scale Competitive Oxidation Dynamics in Cu-Ni Using In Situ ETEM With Advanced Data Analysis

M Li, JG McEver, DN Zakharov, WA Saidi, JC Yang - 2024 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the complex interplay between multiple oxidizing alloy elements during
oxidation is critical for fundamental understanding of alloy oxidation. Cu-Ni binary alloys …

Multi-Timescale Accelerated Dynamics and Trajectory Analysis of Alloy Surface Transformations Using Novel Interatomic Potentials

RB Garza - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Although the equilibrium composition of many alloy surfaces is understood, the rate of
transient surface segregation during annealing or oxidation is not known despite their …

[HTML][HTML] Long Time Scale Dynamics: eOn and akmc dft

KM Carlo - henkelmanlab.org
Long time dynamics (LTD) refers to the dynamic simulation of physical and chemical
processes over a time scale which is much longer than can be reached with traditional …