Quantum state–resolved studies of chemisorption reactions

H Chadwick, RD Beck - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
Chemical reactions at the gas–surface interface are ubiquitous in the chemical industry as
well as in nature. Investigating these processes at a microscopic, quantum state–resolved …

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 …

Next-generation nonlocal van der Waals density functional

D Chakraborty, K Berland… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
The fundamental ideas for a nonlocal density functional theory—capable of reliably
capturing van der Waals interactions—were already conceived in the 1990s. In 2004, a …

Accurate Neural Network Description of Surface Phonons in Reactive Gas–Surface Dynamics: N2 + Ru(0001)

K Shakouri, J Behler, J Meyer… - The journal of physical …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations enable the accurate description of reactive
molecule–surface scattering especially if energy transfer involving surface phonons is …

SBH17: Benchmark database of barrier heights for dissociative chemisorption on transition metal surfaces

T Tchakoua, N Gerrits, EWF Smeets… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Accurate barriers for rate controlling elementary reactions on metal surfaces are key to
understanding, controlling, and predicting the rate of heterogeneously catalyzed processes …

First-principles insights into adiabatic and nonadiabatic vibrational energy-transfer dynamics during molecular scattering from metal surfaces: the importance of …

X Zhou, G Meng, H Guo, B Jiang - The Journal of Physical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Energy transfer is ubiquitous during molecular collisions and reactions at gas–surface
interfaces. Of particular importance is vibrational energy transfer because of its relevance to …

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 …

SBH10: A benchmark database of barrier heights on transition metal surfaces

S Mallikarjun Sharada, T Bligaard… - The Journal of …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
While the performance of density functional approximations (DFAs) for gas phase reaction
energetics has been extensively benchmarked, their reliability for activation barriers on …

Density functional theory for molecule–metal surface reactions: When does the generalized gradient approximation get it right, and what to do if it does not

N Gerrits, EWF Smeets, S Vuckovic… - The journal of …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
While density functional theory (DFT) is perhaps the most used electronic structure theory in
chemistry, many of its practical aspects remain poorly understood. For instance, DFT at the …

Constructing high-dimensional neural network potential energy surfaces for gas–surface scattering and reactions

Q Liu, X Zhou, L Zhou, Y Zhang, X Luo… - The Journal of …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
While the ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) approach to gas–surface interaction has
been instrumental in exploring important issues such as energy transfer and reactivity, it is …