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 …

First-principles calculations for point defects in solids

C Freysoldt, B Grabowski, T Hickel, J Neugebauer… - Reviews of modern …, 2014 - APS
Point defects and impurities strongly affect the physical properties of materials and have a
decisive impact on their performance in applications. First-principles calculations have …

A unique Co@ CoO catalyst for hydrogenolysis of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2, 5-dimethylfuran

S Xiang, L Dong, ZQ Wang, X Han, LL Daemen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of precious-metal-free catalysts to promote the sustainable production of
fuels and chemicals from biomass remains an important and challenging target. Here, we …

Role of Defects in the Interplay between Adsorbate Evolving and Lattice Oxygen Mechanisms of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in RuO2 and IrO2

A Zagalskaya, V Alexandrov - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
The mechanistic interplay between the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and material
degradation during water electrolysis is not yet well understood even for the most studied …

Self-consistent Hubbard parameters from density-functional perturbation theory in the ultrasoft and projector-augmented wave formulations

I Timrov, N Marzari, M Cococcioni - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The self-consistent evaluation of Hubbard parameters using linear-response theory is
crucial for quantitatively predictive calculations based on Hubbard-corrected density …

[HTML][HTML] HP–A code for the calculation of Hubbard parameters using density-functional perturbation theory

I Timrov, N Marzari, M Cococcioni - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
We introduce HP, an implementation of density-functional perturbation theory, designed to
compute Hubbard parameters (on-site U and inter-site V) in the framework of DFT+U and …

Extensive Benchmarking of DFT+U Calculations for Predicting Band Gaps

NE Kirchner-Hall, W Zhao, Y Xiong, I Timrov, I Dabo - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate computational predictions of band gaps are of practical importance to the modeling
and development of semiconductor technologies, such as (opto) electronic devices and …

Catalysis by doped oxides

EW McFarland, H Metiu - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Metal oxide catalysts have numerous industrial applications. 1− 7 In addition, oxides
catalyze many important reactions whose conversion or selectivity is too low to be …

Kitaev Spin Liquid in Transition Metal Compounds

H Liu, J Chaloupka, G Khaliullin - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We study the exchange interactions and resulting magnetic phases in the honeycomb
cobaltates. For a broad range of trigonal crystal fields acting on Co 2+ ions, the low-energy …

Hubbard parameters from density-functional perturbation theory

I Timrov, N Marzari, M Cococcioni - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We present a transparent and computationally efficient approach for the first-principles
calculation of Hubbard parameters from linear-response theory. This approach is based on …