Best‐practice DFT protocols for basic molecular computational chemistry

M Bursch, JM Mewes, A Hansen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, many chemical investigations are supported by routine calculations of molecular
structures, reaction energies, barrier heights, and spectroscopic properties. The lion's share …

Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Molecular physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In the past 30 years, Kohn–Sham density functional theory has emerged as the most popular
electronic structure method in computational chemistry. To assess the ever-increasing …

Revisiting the performance of time-dependent density functional theory for electronic excitations: Assessment of 43 popular and recently developed functionals from …

J Liang, X Feng, D Hait… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the performance of more than 40 popular or recently developed density
functionals is assessed for the calculation of 463 vertical excitation energies against the …

B97-3c: A revised low-cost variant of the B97-D density functional method

JG Brandenburg, C Bannwarth, A Hansen… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A revised version of the well-established B97-D density functional approximation with
general applicability for chemical properties of large systems is proposed. Like B97-D, it is …

Light–matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles

N Rivera, I Kaminer - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …

Density functional theory is straying from the path toward the exact functional

MG Medvedev, IS Bushmarinov, J Sun, JP Perdew… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The theorems at the core of density functional theory (DFT) state that the energy of a many-
electron system in its ground state is fully defined by its electron density distribution. This …

Density functional theory for electrocatalysis

X Liao, R Lu, L Xia, Q Liu, H Wang… - Energy & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is a considerably promising strategy to produce fuels and high‐value chemicals through
an electrochemical conversion process in the green and sustainable energy systems …

Dispersion-corrected mean-field electronic structure methods

S Grimme, A Hansen, JG Brandenburg… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Mean-field electronic structure methods like Hartree–Fock, semilocal density functional
approximations, or semiempirical molecular orbital (MO) theories do not account for long …

A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions

L Goerigk, A Hansen, C Bauer, S Ehrlich… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the GMTKN55 benchmark database for general main group thermochemistry,
kinetics and noncovalent interactions. Compared to its popular predecessor GMTKN30 …

MN15: A Kohn–Sham global-hybrid exchange–correlation density functional with broad accuracy for multi-reference and single-reference systems and noncovalent …

SY Haoyu, X He, SL Li, DG Truhlar - Chemical science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Kohn–Sham density functionals are widely used; however, no currently available exchange–
correlation functional can predict all chemical properties with chemical accuracy. Here we …