DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science

AM Teale, T Helgaker, A Savin, C Adamo… - Physical chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, the history, present status, and future of density-functional theory (DFT) is
informally reviewed and discussed by 70 workers in the field, including molecular scientists …

Theoretical Insights into Heterogeneous (Photo)electrochemical CO2 Reduction

S Xu, EA Carter - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction technologies offer the promise of
zero-carbon-emission renewable fuels needed for heavy-duty transportation. However, the …

O2 Activation by Metal Surfaces: Implications for Bonding and Reactivity on Heterogeneous Catalysts

MM Montemore, MA Van Spronsen, RJ Madix… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The activation of O2 on metal surfaces is a critical process for heterogeneous catalysis and
materials oxidation. Fundamental studies of well-defined metal surfaces using a variety of …

Hot Electrons Do the Impossible: Plasmon-Induced Dissociation of H2 on Au

S Mukherjee, F Libisch, N Large, O Neumann… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis is of paramount importance in chemistry and energy applications.
Catalysts that couple light energy into chemical reactions in a directed, orbital-specific …

Charting C–C coupling pathways in electrochemical CO2 reduction on Cu(111) using embedded correlated wavefunction theory

Q Zhao, JMP Martirez… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) powered by excess zero-carbon-
emission electricity to produce especially multicarbon (C2+) products could contribute to a …

Quantum embedding theories

Q Sun, GKL Chan - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus In complex systems, it is often the case that the region of interest forms only one
part of a much larger system. The idea of joining two different quantum simulations a high …

Revisiting Understanding of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Cu(111): Competing Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction Mechanisms Revealed by …

Q Zhao, JMP Martirez, EA Carter - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Copper (Cu) electrodes, as the most efficacious of CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR)
electrocatalysts, serve as prototypes for determining and validating reaction mechanisms …

Embedded correlated wavefunction schemes: Theory and applications

F Libisch, C Huang, EA Carter - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Ab initio modeling of matter has become a pillar of chemical research: with ever-
increasing computational power, simulations can be used to accurately predict, for example …

Computational approaches to dissociative chemisorption on metals: towards chemical accuracy

GJ Kroes - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the state-of-the-art in the theory of dissociative chemisorption (DC) of small gas
phase molecules on metal surfaces, which is important to modeling heterogeneous catalysis …

Coupled cluster theory in materials science

IY Zhang, A Grüneis - Frontiers in Materials, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The workhorse method of computational materials science is undeniably the density
functional theory (DFT) in the Kohn-Sham framework of approximate exchange and …