The mechanisms and applications of friction energy dissipation

H Liu, B Yang, C Wang, Y Han, D Liu - Friction, 2023‏ - Springer
About 30% of the world's primary energy consumption is in friction. The economic losses
caused by friction energy dissipation and wear account for about 2%–7% of its gross …

Calculating electronic stop** power in materials from first principles

AA Correa - Computational Materials Science, 2018‏ - Elsevier
From the early models of electronic stop** power to the current first principles simulations,
the techniques evolved to increase the range of validity and to reduce empiricism. Thanks to …

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 …

Real-time observation of two distinctive non-thermalized hot electron dynamics at MXene/molecule interfaces

Q Zhang, W Li, R Zhao, P Tang, J Zhao, G Wu… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The photoinduced non-thermalized hot electrons at an interface play a pivotal role in
determining plasmonic driven chemical events. However, understanding non-thermalized …

Accurate reaction probabilities for translational energies on both sides of the barrier of dissociative chemisorption on metal surfaces

N Gerrits, B Jackson, A Bogaerts - The Journal of Physical …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics simulations are essential for a better understanding of dissociative
chemisorption on metal surfaces, which is often the rate-controlling step in heterogeneous …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: How to understand electronic friction

W Dou, JE Subotnik - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018‏ - pubs.aip.org
Electronic friction is a correction to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, whereby nuclei in
motion experience a drag in the presence of a manifold of electronic states. The notion of …

Chemical dynamics from the gas‐phase to surfaces

DJ Auerbach, JC Tully, AM Wodtke - Natural Sciences, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The field of gas‐phase chemical dynamics has developed superb experimental methods to
probe the detailed outcome of gas‐phase chemical reactions. These experiments inspired …

Chemically accurate simulation of a polyatomic molecule-metal surface reaction

F Nattino, D Migliorini, GJ Kroes… - The Journal of …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Although important to heterogeneous catalysis, the ability to accurately model reactions of
polyatomic molecules with metal surfaces has not kept pace with developments in gas …

Born-Oppenheimer dynamics, electronic friction, and the inclusion of electron-electron interactions

W Dou, G Miao, JE Subotnik - Physical Review Letters, 2017‏ - APS
We present a universal expression for the electronic friction as felt by a set of classical
nuclear degrees of freedom (DOFs) coupled to a manifold of quantum electronic DOFs; no …

Vibrational energy transfer in collisions of molecules with metal surfaces

I Rahinov, A Kandratsenka, T Schäfer… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The Born–Oppenheimer approximation (BOA), which serves as the basis for our
understanding of chemical bonding, reactivity and dynamics, is routinely violated for …