r2SCAN-3c: A “Swiss army knife” composite electronic-structure method

S Grimme, A Hansen, S Ehlert… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The recently proposed r 2 SCAN meta-generalized-gradient approximation (mGGA) of
Furness and co-workers is used to construct an efficient composite electronic-structure …

MACE-OFF23: Transferable machine learning force fields for organic molecules

DP Kovács, JH Moore, NJ Browning, I Batatia… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Classical empirical force fields have dominated biomolecular simulation for over 50 years.
Although widely used in drug discovery, crystal structure prediction, and biomolecular …

XDM-corrected hybrid DFT with numerical atomic orbitals predicts molecular crystal lattice energies with unprecedented accuracy

AJA Price, A Otero-de-la-Roza, ER Johnson - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular crystals are important for many applications, including energetic materials,
organic semiconductors, and the development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals …

A short review of current computational concepts for high-pressure phase transition studies in molecular crystals

DA Rychkov - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
High-pressure chemistry of organic compounds is a hot topic of modern chemistry. In this
work, basic computational concepts for high-pressure phase transition studies in molecular …

The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure generation methods

LM Hunnisett, J Nyman, N Francia, NS Abraham… - Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
A seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction was organized by the Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Centre featuring seven target systems of varying complexity: a silicon …

Data-efficient fine-tuning of foundational models for first-principles quality sublimation enthalpies

H Kaur, F Della Pia, I Batatia, XR Advincula… - Faraday …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Calculating sublimation enthalpies of molecular crystal polymorphs is relevant to a wide
range of technological applications. However, predicting these quantities at first-principles …

How accurate are simulations and experiments for the lattice energies of molecular crystals?

F Della Pia, A Zen, D Alfè, A Michaelides - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Molecular crystals play a central role in a wide range of scientific fields, including
pharmaceuticals and organic semiconductor devices. However, they are challenging …

[HTML][HTML] The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure ranking methods

LM Hunnisett, N Francia, J Nyman, NS Abraham… - Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
A seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction has been organized by the Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Centre. The results are presented in two parts, with this second part …

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 …

Hybrid classical/machine-learning force fields for the accurate description of molecular condensed-phase systems

M Thürlemann, S Riniker - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electronic structure methods offer in principle accurate predictions of molecular properties,
however, their applicability is limited by computational costs. Empirical methods are …