Best‐practice DFT protocols for basic molecular computational chemistry

M Bursch, JM Mewes, A Hansen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, many chemical investigations are supported by routine calculations of molecular
structures, reaction energies, barrier heights, and spectroscopic properties. The lion's share …

High-entropy materials for electrocatalytic applications: a review of first principles modeling and simulations

W Huo, S Wang, FJ Dominguez-Gutierrez… - Materials Research …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
High-entropy materials, for both complexity in structure and superiority in performance, have
been widely confirmed to be one possible kind of advanced electrocatalyst. Significant …

Modulating Mxene‐Derived Ni‐Mom‐Mo2‐mTiC2Tx Structure for Intensified Low‐Temperature Ethanol Reforming

W Shi, R Zhang, H Li, Y Wu, S Toan… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The technology of steam reforming of bioethanol has drawn great attention to green
hydrogen production. However, catalyst deactivation has always been a significant obstacle …

Realistic phase diagram of water from “first principles” data-driven quantum simulations

SL Bore, F Paesani - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Since the experimental characterization of the low-pressure region of water's phase diagram
in the early 1900s, scientists have been on a quest to understand the thermodynamic …

[HTML][HTML] A “short blanket” dilemma for a state-of-the-art neural network potential for water: Reproducing experimental properties or the physics of the underlying many …

Y Zhai, A Caruso, SL Bore, Z Luo… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Deep neural network (DNN) potentials have recently gained popularity in computer
simulations of a wide range of molecular systems, from liquids to materials. In this study, we …

Spin-State Splittings in 3d Transition-Metal Complexes Revisited: Benchmarking Approximate Methods for Adiabatic Spin-State Energy Differences in Fe (II) …

M Reimann, M Kaupp - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The CASPT2+ δMRCI composite approach reported in a companion paper has been
extended and used to provide high-quality reference data for a series of adiabatic spin gaps …

Delocalization error poisons the density-functional many-body expansion

DR Broderick, JM Herbert - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The many-body expansion is a fragment-based approach to large-scale quantum chemistry
that partitions a single monolithic calculation into manageable subsystems. This technique is …

Surface electron-polarized biochar-enhanced anaerobic digestion mechanism revealed by metagenomic binning strategy

C Xu, Z Bao, C Hu, L Lyu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Inefficient electron transfer is a key bottleneck for anaerobic digestion (AD), which often
leads to system instability. Here, we propose for the first time a new strategy to solve the …

Density functionals based on the mathematical structure of the strong‐interaction limit of DFT

S Vuckovic, A Gerolin, KJ Daas… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While in principle exact, Kohn–Sham density functional theory—the workhorse of
computational chemistry—must rely on approximations for the exchange–correlation …

Extending density functional theory with near chemical accuracy beyond pure water

S Song, S Vuckovic, Y Kim, H Yu, E Sim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Density functional simulations of condensed phase water are typically inaccurate, due to the
inaccuracies of approximate functionals. A recent breakthrough showed that the SCAN …