Toward a first-principles framework for predicting collective properties of electrolytes

TT Duignan, SM Kathmann, GK Schenter… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Given the universal importance of electrolyte solutions, it is natural to expect
that we have a nearly complete understanding of the fundamental properties of these …

Selective CO2 electrocatalysis at the pseudocapacitive nanoparticle/ordered-ligand interlayer

D Kim, S Yu, F Zheng, I Roh, Y Li, S Louisia, Z Qi… - Nature Energy, 2020 - nature.com
Enzymes feature the concerted operation of multiple components around an active site,
leading to exquisite catalytic specificity. Realizing such configurations on synthetic catalyst …

Water structure in the electrical double layer and the contributions to the total interfacial potential at different surface charge densities

B Rehl, E Ma, S Parshotam… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The electric double layer governs the processes of all charged surfaces in aqueous
solutions; however, elucidating the structure of the water molecules is challenging for even …

[HTML][HTML] The known-unknowns of anomalous underscreening in concentrated electrolytes

GR Elliott, KP Gregory, H Robertson, VSJ Craig… - Chemical Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrolytes are central to life and technology but lack complete understanding. Recent
experiments with highly concentrated electrolytes have revealed electrostatic decay lengths …

High-throughput aqueous electrolyte structure prediction using IonSolvR and equivariant graph neural network potentials

S Baker, J Pagotto, TT Duignan… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Neural network potentials have recently emerged as an efficient and accurate tool for
accelerating ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) in order to simulate complex condensed …

Hydration of alkali metal and halide ions from static and dynamic viewpoints

Z **g, Y Zhou, T Yamaguchi, K Yoshida… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ion hydration in aqueous solutions plays a paramount role in many fields. Despite many
studies on ion hydration, the nature of ion hydration is not consistently understood at the …

Radicals in aqueous solution: assessment of density-corrected SCAN functional

F Belleflamme, J Hutter - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We study self-interaction effects in solvated and strongly-correlated cationic molecular
clusters, with a focus on the solvated hydroxyl radical. To address the self-interaction issue …

Ab Initio Simulation of Liquid Water without Artificial High Temperature

C Wang, W Tian, K Zhou - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Comprehending the structure and dynamics of water is crucial in various fields, such as
water desalination, ion separation, electrocatalysis, and biochemical processes. While …

Quantifying the structure of water and hydrated monovalent ions by density functional theory-based molecular dynamics

K Zhou, C Qian, Y Liu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
The accurate description of the structures of water and hydrated ions is important in
electrochemical desalination, ion separation, and supercapacitors. In this work, we present …

Balance between physical interpretability and energetic predictability in widely used dispersion-corrected density functionals

S Dasgupta, E Palos, Y Pan… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We assess the performance of different dispersion models for several popular density
functionals across a diverse set of noncovalent systems, ranging from the benzene dimer to …