Computational methods in heterogeneous catalysis

BWJ Chen, L Xu, M Mavrikakis - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented ability of computations to probe atomic-level details of catalytic systems
holds immense promise for the fundamentals-based bottom-up design of novel …

Electrically gated molecular thermal switch

M Li, H Wu, EM Avery, Z Qin, DP Goronzy, HD Nguyen… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Controlling heat flow is a key challenge for applications ranging from thermal management
in electronics to energy systems, industrial processing, and thermal therapy. However …

Perspectives on weak interactions in complex materials at different length scales

J Fiedler, K Berland, JW Borchert… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocomposite materials consist of nanometer-sized quantum objects such as atoms,
molecules, voids or nanoparticles embedded in a host material. These quantum objects can …

Poly (3‐hexylthiophene)/perovskite Heterointerface by Spinodal Decomposition Enabling Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Y Yang, Q Xiong, J Wu, Y Tu, T Sun, G Li… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The best research‐cell efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is comparable with that of
mature silicon solar cells (SSCs); However, the industrial development of PSCs lags far …

Hollow sphere of heterojunction (NiCu) S/NC as advanced anode for sodium-ion battery

H Chen, P Lv, P Tian, S Cao, S Yuan, Q Liu - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal sulfide is considered as a potential anode for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), due to the
high theoretical capacity, strong thermodynamic stability and low-cost. However, their cycle …

Computational approaches to dissociative chemisorption on metals: towards chemical accuracy

GJ Kroes - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the state-of-the-art in the theory of dissociative chemisorption (DC) of small gas
phase molecules on metal surfaces, which is important to modeling heterogeneous catalysis …

Unconventional magnetism mediated by spin-phonon-photon coupling

PA Pantazopoulos, J Feist, FJ García-Vidal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Magnetic order typically emerges due to the short-range exchange interaction between the
constituent electronic spins. Recent discoveries have found a crucial role for spin-phonon …

Tunable spin polarization and electronic structure of bottom-up synthesized materials

R Islam, B Ghosh, C Autieri, S Chowdhury, A Bansil… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Manipulation of spin-polarized electronic states of two-dimensional (2D) materials under
ambient conditions is necessary for developing new quantum devices with small physical …

Electronic structure of cesium-based photocathode materials from density functional theory: performance of PBE, SCAN, and HSE06 functionals

HD Saßnick, C Cocchi - Electronic Structure, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of novel materials for vacuum electron sources in particle accelerators is
an active field of research that can greatly benefit from the results of ab initio calculations for …

Band gap variation in bi, tri and few-layered 2D graphene/hBN heterostructures

RM Torres-Rojas, DA Contreras-Solorio… - Solid State …, 2022 - Elsevier
For the last years, there has been growing interest in the band gap study of 2D
heterostructures due to high expectations of developing a new generation of electronic …