ωB2PLYP and ωB2GPPLYP: the first two double-hybrid density functionals with long-range correction optimized for excitation energies

M Casanova-Páez, MB Dardis… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Double-hybrid density functionals are currently the most accurate density functionals for
ground-state properties and electronic excitations. Nevertheless, the lack of a long-range …

Modeling Excited States in TiO2 Nanoparticles: On the Accuracy of a TD-DFT Based Description

E Berardo, HS Hu, SA Shevlin… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We have investigated the suitability of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT)
to describe vertical low-energy excitations in naked and hydrated titanium dioxide …

Benchmarking the completely renormalised equation-of-motion coupled-cluster approaches for vertical excitation energies

P Piecuch, JA Hansen, AO Ajala - Molecular Physics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The vertical excitation energies for a comprehensive test set of about 150 singlet excited
states of 28 medium-sized organic molecules computed using two variants of the completely …

Molecular and Dissociative Adsorption of Water on (TiO2)n Clusters, n = 1–4

M Chen, TP Straatsma, DA Dixon - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The low energy structures of the (TiO2) n (H2O) m (n≤ 4, m≤ 2 n) and (TiO2) 8 (H2O) m
(m= 3, 7, 8) clusters were predicted using a global geometry optimization approach, with a …

Modeling the Water Splitting Activity of a TiO2 Rutile Nanoparticle

E Berardo, MA Zwijnenburg - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015 - ACS Publications
We explore, from a theoretical perspective, the effect of particle size on the photocatalytic
water splitting activity of TiO2 rutile (nano) particles by a combination of explicit quantum …

Optical excitation of MgO nanoparticles; a computational perspective

MCC Wobbe, A Kerridge… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The optical absorption spectra of magnesium oxide (MgO) nanoparticles, along with the
atomic centres responsible, are studied using a combination of time-dependent density …

Describing Excited State Relaxation and Localization in TiO2 Nanoparticles Using TD-DFT

E Berardo, HS Hu, HJJ Van Dam… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We have investigated the description of excited state relaxation in naked and hydrated TiO2
nanoparticles using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) with three …

Benchmarking the Fundamental Electronic Properties of small TiO2 Nanoclusters by GW and Coupled Cluster Theory Calculations

E Berardo, F Kaplan, K Bhaskaran-Nair… - Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We study the vertical and adiabatic ionization potentials and electron affinities of bare and
hydroxylated TiO2 nanoclusters, as well as their fundamental gap and exciton binding …

Computational investigation of acene-modified zinc-porphyrin based sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

YF Liu, J Guan, D Hu, L Du, H Sun, J Gao… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A series of acene-modified zinc-porphyrin dyes (benzene to pentacene, denoted as LAC-1
to LAC-5) were chosen to examine their performance as photosensitizers in dye-sensitized …

Modelling materials for solar fuel synthesis by artificial photosynthesis; predicting the optical, electronic and redox properties of photocatalysts

P Guiglion, E Berardo, C Butchosa… - Journal of Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this mini-review, we discuss what insight computational modelling can provide into the
working of photocatalysts for solar fuel synthesis and how calculations can be used to …