Density functional theory analysis of structural and electronic properties of orthorhombic perovskite CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3

Y Wang, T Gould, JF Dobson, H Zhang… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 is a novel light harvester, which can
greatly improve the solar-conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells. In this article, a …

Electronic and geometric determinants of adsorption: fundamentals and applications

B Li, W Gao, Q Jiang - Journal of Physics: Energy, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Adsorption is an essential phenomenon in surface science and is closely related to many
applications such as catalysis, sensors, energy storage, biomedical applications and so on …

Relationship between the surface reconstruction of nickel phosphides and their activity toward the hydrogen evolution reaction

S Banerjee, A Kakekhani, RB Wexler, AM Rappe - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nickel phosphides (Ni x P y) are a class of materials that are made out of earth abundant
elements and have shown relatively high hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity. Here …

Chemical Pressure-Driven Enhancement of the Hydrogen Evolving Activity of Ni2P from Nonmetal Surface Doping Interpreted via Machine Learning

RB Wexler, JMP Martirez… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The activity of Ni2P catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is currently limited by
strong H adsorption at the Ni3-hollow site. We investigate the effect of surface nonmetal …

Concepts, models, and methods in computational heterogeneous catalysis illustrated through CO2 conversion

Á Morales‐García, F Viñes… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Theoretical investigations and computational studies have notoriously contributed to the
development of our understanding of heterogeneous catalysis during the last decades …

Effect of fluorination on exciton binding energy and electronic coupling in small molecule acceptors for organic solar cells

A Mahmood, A Irfan - Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
A detail study was performed to get deeper understanding of fluorination impact on
intermolecular coupling and intermolecular interactions. Results showed that fluorine …

Functional independent scaling relation for ORR/OER catalysts

R Christensen, HA Hansen, CF Dickens… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A widely used adsorption energy scaling relation between OH* and OOH* intermediates in
the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), has previously …

Active role of phosphorus in the hydrogen evolving activity of nickel phosphide (0001) surfaces

RB Wexler, JMP Martirez, AM Rappe - ACS Catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
Optimizing catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a critical step toward the
efficient production of H2 (g) fuel from water. It has been demonstrated experimentally that …

First-principles calculations of hybrid inorganic–organic interfaces: from state-of-the-art to best practice

OT Hofmann, E Zojer, L Hörmann, A Jeindl… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The computational characterization of inorganic–organic hybrid interfaces is arguably one of
the technically most challenging applications of density functional theory. Due to the …

A promising anode material for sodium-ion battery with high capacity and high diffusion ability: graphyne and graphdiyne

Z Xu, X Lv, J Li, J Chen, Q Liu - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
An investigation of the energetics and dynamics properties of sodium adsorption on
graphyne and graphdiyne has been carried out by first-principles calculations. Graphyne …