Implicit solvation methods for catalysis at electrified interfaces

S Ringe, NG Hormann, H Oberhofer… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Implicit solvation is an effective, highly coarse-grained approach in atomic-scale simulations
to account for a surrounding liquid electrolyte on the level of a continuous polarizable …

Improving the accuracy of atomistic simulations of the electrochemical interface

R Sundararaman, D Vigil-Fowler, K Schwarz - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Atomistic simulation of the electrochemical double layer is an ambitious undertaking,
requiring quantum mechanical description of electrons, phase space sampling of liquid …

Understanding cation effects in electrochemical CO 2 reduction

S Ringe, EL Clark, J Resasco, A Walton… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Solid–liquid interface engineering has recently emerged as a promising technique to
optimize the activity and product selectivity of the electrochemical reduction of CO2. In …

Opportunities and challenges of interface engineering in bimetallic nanostructure for enhanced electrocatalysis

Q Shao, P Wang, X Huang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of bimetal based catalysts via interfacial engineered strategy has been
intensively explored due to its great potential for enhancing the electrochemical …

The electrochemical interface in first-principles calculations

K Schwarz, R Sundararaman - Surface science reports, 2020 - Elsevier
First-principles predictions play an important role in understanding chemistry at the
electrochemical interface. Electronic structure calculations are straightforward for vacuum …

Unraveling the role of metal vacancy sites and doped nitrogen in enhancing pseudocapacitance performance of defective MXene

G Chen, Y Xie, Y Tang, T Wang, Z Wang, C Yang - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen‐doped titanium carbides (MXene) films exhibit extraordinary volumetric
capacitance when high‐concentration sulfuric acid electrolyte is utilized owing to the …

Field effects at protruding defect sites in electrocatalysis at metal electrodes?

SD Beinlich, NG Hörmann, K Reuter - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Potential dependencies of adsorption energies at metal electrodes are often interpreted in
terms of a dipole-field interaction picture. Classical electrostatics would then suggest …

Ab initio-based modeling of thermodynamic cyclic voltammograms: a benchmark study on Ag (100) in bromide solutions

N Bergmann, NG Hörmann… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Experimental cyclic voltammograms (CVs) measured in the slow scan rate limit can be
entirely described in terms of the thermodynamic equilibrium quantities of the electrified …

Predicting the Stability and Loading for Electrochemical Preparation of Single-Atom Catalysts

J Zhou, Y Liu, DR Yang, L Liu, XH Xia, C Liu - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Underpotential electrochemical deposition is a convenient approach for precisely controlling
the fabrication process of single-atom catalysts (SACs). In achieving a balance between …

Thermodynamic Cyclic Voltammograms Based on Ab Initio Calculations: Ag(111) in Halide-Containing Solutions

NG Hörmann, K Reuter - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cyclic voltammograms (CVs) are a central experimental tool for assessing the structure and
activity of electrochemical interfaces. Based on a mean-field ansatz for the interface …