Self-passivation of Halide Interstitial Defects by Organic Cations in Hybrid Lead-Halide Perovskites: Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics

X Ma, X Tian, E Stippell, OV Prezhdo… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Halide interstitial defects severely hinder the optoelectronic performance of metal halide
perovskites, making research on their passivation crucial. We demonstrate, using ab initio …

Sub-bandgap charge harvesting and energy up-conversion in metal halide perovskites: ab initio quantum dynamics

B Wang, W Chu, Y Wu, WA Saidi… - npj Computational …, 2025 - nature.com
Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) exhibit unusual properties and complex dynamics. By
combining ab initio time-dependent density functional theory, nonadiabatic molecular …

Band Gap Narrowing in Lead-Halide Perovskites by Dynamic Defect Self-Do** for Enhanced Light Absorption and Energy Upconversion

Y Shi, W Chu, L Zhang, B Wang, WA Saidi… - Chemistry of …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Metal halide perovskites (MHP) have attracted great attention in the photovoltaic industry
due to their high and rapidly rising power conversion efficiencies, currently over 25 …

Ion Migration at Metal Halide Perovskite Grain Boundaries Elucidated with a Machine Learning Force Field

MR Samatov, D Liu, L Zhao, EA Kazakova… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Metal halide perovskites are promising optoelectronic materials with excellent defect
tolerance in carrier recombination, believed to arise largely from their unique soft lattices …

Point defects at grain boundaries can create structural instabilities and persistent deep traps in metal halide perovskites

Y Wu, D Liu, W Chu, B Wang, AS Vasenko… - Nanoscale, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have attracted strong interest for a variety of applications
due to their low cost and excellent performance, attributed largely to favorable defect …

Identifying Rare Events in Quantum Molecular Dynamics of Nanomaterials with Outlier Detection Indices

B Wang, D Liu, Y Wu, AS Vasenko… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale and condensed matter systems evolve on multiple length-and time-scales, and
rare events such as local phase transformation, ion segregation, defect migration, interface …

Suppressing Polaronic Defect–Photocarrier Interaction in Halide Perovskites by Pre-distorting Its Lattice

G Alkhalifah, B Wang, OV Prezhdo… - Journal of the American …, 2025 - ACS Publications
In halide perovskites, photocarriers can have strong polaronic interactions with point defects.
For iodide-deficient MAPbI3, we found that the Fermi level can shift significantly by 0.6–0.7 …

Atomistic Origin of Microsecond Carrier Lifetimes at Perovskite Grain Boundaries: Machine Learning-Assisted Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics

Y Wu, W Chu, B Wang, OV Prezhdo - Journal of the American …, 2025 - ACS Publications
The polycrystalline nature of perovskites, stemming from their facile solution-based
fabrication, leads to a high density of grain boundaries (GBs) and point defects. However …

Machine Learning Prediction of the Corrosion Rate of Zinc-Based Alloys Containing Copper, Lithium, Magnesium, and Silver

A Davletshin, EA Korznikova… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Implementation of machine learning (ML) techniques in materials science often requires
large data sets. However, a proper choice of features and regression methods allows the …

Discovery of Hypoxanthine and Inosine as Robust Biomarkers for Predicting the Preanalytical Quality of Human Plasma and Serum for Metabolomics

GA Nagana Gowda, V Pascua, L Hill… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In cold human blood, the anomalous dynamics of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) result in the
progressive accumulation of adenosine diphosphate (ADP), adenosine monophosphate …