Material research from the viewpoint of functional motifs

XM Jiang, S Deng, MH Whangbo… - National Science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As early as 2001, the need for the 'functional motif theory'was pointed out, to assist the
rational design of functional materials. The properties of materials are determined by their …

Computation insights of MoS2-CrXY (X≠ YS, Se, Te) van der waals heterostructure for Spintronic and photocatalytic water Splitting applications

M Idrees, B Amin, Y Chen, X Yan - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract van der Waals heterostructure (vdWH) is an attractive technique to enhance the
behavior of two-dimensional materials for designing viable products for electronic …

[HTML][HTML] A combined first principles study of the structural, magnetic, and phonon properties of monolayer CrI3

D Staros, G Hu, J Tiihonen, R Nanguneri… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The first magnetic 2D material discovered, monolayer (ML) CrI 3, is particularly fascinating
due to its ground state ferromagnetism. However, because ML materials are difficult to probe …

Systematic DFT+U and Quantum Monte Carlo Benchmark of Magnetic Two-Dimensional (2D) CrX3 (X = I, Br, Cl, F)

D Wines, K Choudhary, F Tavazza - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The search for two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials has attracted a great deal of
attention because of the experimental synthesis of 2D CrI3, which has a measured Curie …

Systematic Improvement of Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations in Transition Metal Oxides: sCI-Driven Wavefunction Optimization for Reliable Band Gap Prediction

H Shin, K Gasperich, T Rojas, AT Ngo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Accurate determination of the electronic properties of correlated oxides remains a significant
challenge for computational theory. Traditional Hubbard-corrected density functional theory …

A Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the Structural, Energetic, and Magnetic Properties of Two-Dimensional H and T Phase VSe2

D Wines, J Tiihonen, K Saritas, JT Krogel… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Previous works have controversially claimed near-room-temperature ferromagnetism in two-
dimensional (2D) VSe2, with conflicting results throughout the literature. These …

Force-free identification of minimum-energy pathways and transition states for stochastic electronic structure theories

GR Iyer, N Whelpley, J Tiihonen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The accurate mapping of potential energy surfaces (PESs) is crucial to our understanding of
the numerous physical and chemical processes mediated by atomic rearrangements, such …

A new generation of effective core potentials: Selected lanthanides and heavy elements

H Zhou, B Kincaid, G Wang, A Annaberdiyev… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We construct correlation-consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for a selected set of
heavy atoms and f elements that are currently of significant interest in materials and …

Surrogate Hessian accelerated structural optimization for stochastic electronic structure theories

J Tiihonen, PRC Kent, JT Krogel - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We present an efficient energy-based method for structural optimization with stochastic
electronic structure theories, such as diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC). This method is …

Intrinsic Ferromagnetism of Two-Dimensional (2D) MnO2 Revisited: A Many-Body Quantum Monte Carlo and DFT+U Study

D Wines, K Saritas, C Ataca - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022 - ACS Publications
Monolayer MnO2 is one of the few predicted two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnets that has
been experimentally synthesized and is commercially available. The Mermin–Wagner …