Ab initio simulations of water/metal interfaces

A Groß, S Sakong - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Structures and processes at water/metal interfaces play an important technological role in
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, photoconversion, sensors, and corrosion …

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 …

Correlating hydration free energy and specific adsorption of alkali metal cations during CO2 electroreduction on Au

VJ Ovalle, YS Hsu, N Agrawal, MJ Janik… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Specifically adsorbed alkali metal cations on metal electrodes have been hypothesized to
influence the reduction of CO2. However, experimental detection of these cations during …

Multilevel computational studies reveal the importance of axial ligand for oxygen reduction reaction on Fe–N–C materials

P Hutchison, PS Rice, RE Warburton… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The systematic improvement of Fe–N–C materials for fuel cell applications has proven
challenging, due in part to an incomplete atomistic understanding of the oxygen reduction …

Grand canonical ensemble modeling of electrochemical interfaces made simple

Z Xia, H Xiao - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023 - ACS Publications
Grand canonical ensemble (GCE) modeling of electrochemical interfaces, in which the
electrochemical potential is converged to a preset constant, is essential for understanding …

Electrochemistry, ion adsorption and dynamics in the double layer: a study of NaCl (aq) on graphite

AR Finney, IJ McPherson, PR Unwin… - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphite and related sp2 carbons are ubiquitous electrode materials with particular promise
for use in eg, energy storage and desalination devices, but very little is known about the …

Effect of the metallicity on the capacitance of gold–aqueous sodium chloride interfaces

A Serva, L Scalfi, B Rotenberg… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electrochemistry experiments have established that the capacitance of electrode–electrolyte
interfaces is much larger for good metals, such as gold and platinum, than for carbon-based …

Dielectric Properties of Nanoconfined Water from Ab Initio Thermopotentiostat Molecular Dynamics

F Deißenbeck, S Wippermann - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We discuss how to include our recently proposed thermopotentiostat technique
[Deissenbeck et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2021, 126, 136803] into any existing ab initio molecular …

Helmholtz capacitance of aqueous NaCl solutions at the au (100) electrode from polarizable and nonpolarizable molecular dynamics simulations

S Park, JG McDaniel - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aqueous NaCl solutions at gold electrodes serve as prototypical electrochemical interfaces.
A fundamental property of these interfaces is the differential capacitance, from which …

Molecular understanding of cation effects on double layers and their significance to CO-CO dimerization

JB Le, A Chen, Y Kuang, J Cheng - National Science Review, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cation effects have been shown in numerous experiments to play a significant role in
electrocatalysis. To understand these effects at the molecular level, we systematically …