Electrocatalysis in alkaline media and alkaline membrane-based energy technologies

Y Yang, CR Peltier, R Zeng, R Schimmenti, Q Li… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen energy-based electrochemical energy conversion technologies offer the promise
of enabling a transition of the global energy landscape from fossil fuels to renewable energy …

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 …

Approaching the quantum limit in two-dimensional semiconductor contacts

W Li, X Gong, Z Yu, L Ma, W Sun, S Gao, Ç Köroğlu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The development of next-generation electronics requires scaling of channel material
thickness down to the two-dimensional limit while maintaining ultralow contact resistance …

First-principles models for van der Waals interactions in molecules and materials: Concepts, theory, and applications

J Hermann, RA DiStasio Jr, A Tkatchenko - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Noncovalent van der Waals (vdW) or dispersion forces are ubiquitous in nature and
influence the structure, stability, dynamics, and function of molecules and materials …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: How good is DFT for water?

MJ Gillan, D Alfe, A Michaelides - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has become established as an indispensable
tool for investigating aqueous systems of all kinds, including those important in chemistry …

How van der Waals interactions determine the unique properties of water

T Morawietz, A Singraber… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Whereas the interactions between water molecules are dominated by strongly directional
hydrogen bonds (HBs), it was recently proposed that relatively weak, isotropic van der …

Self-diffusion coefficient of bulk and confined water: a critical review of classical molecular simulation studies

IN Tsimpanogiannis, OA Moultos, LFM Franco… - Molecular …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We present a detailed overview of classical molecular simulation studies examining the self-
diffusion coefficient of water. The self-diffusion coefficient is directly associated with the …

Theory and practice of modeling van der Waals interactions in electronic-structure calculations

M Stöhr, T Van Voorhis, A Tkatchenko - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The accurate description of long-range electron correlation, most prominently including van
der Waals (vdW) dispersion interactions, represents a particularly challenging task in the …

[HTML][HTML] The individual and collective effects of exact exchange and dispersion interactions on the ab initio structure of liquid water

RA DiStasio, B Santra, Z Li, X Wu, R Car - The Journal of chemical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we report the results of a series of density functional theory (DFT) based ab
initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of ambient liquid water using a hierarchy of …

Machine-learning approach for one-and two-body corrections to density functional theory: Applications to molecular and condensed water

AP Bartók, MJ Gillan, FR Manby, G Csányi - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2013 - APS
We show how machine learning techniques based on Bayesian inference can be used to
enhance the computer simulation of molecular materials, focusing here on water. We train …