Status and challenges of density functional theory

P Verma, DG Truhlar - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
We discuss some of the challenges facing density functional theory (DFT) and recent
progress in DFT for both ground and excited electronic states. We discuss key aspects of the …

Replacing hybrid density functional theory: motivation and recent advances

BG Janesko - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Density functional theory (DFT) is the most widely-used electronic structure approximation
across chemistry, physics, and materials science. Every year, thousands of papers report …

Revisiting the performance of time-dependent density functional theory for electronic excitations: Assessment of 43 popular and recently developed functionals from …

J Liang, X Feng, D Hait… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the performance of more than 40 popular or recently developed density
functionals is assessed for the calculation of 463 vertical excitation energies against the …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput predictions of metal–organic framework electronic properties: theoretical challenges, graph neural networks, and data exploration

AS Rosen, V Fung, P Huck, CT O'Donnell… - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
With the goal of accelerating the design and discovery of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)
for electronic, optoelectronic, and energy storage applications, we present a dataset of …

Designing of silolothiophene-linked triphenylamine-based hole transporting materials for perovskites and donors for organic solar cells-A DFT study

R Hussain, M Adnan, K Atiq, MU Khan, ZH Farooqi… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Si-OMeTPA is receiving a lot of interest as potential hole transport materials in perovskite
solar cells (PSCs) because of their wide range of energy tuning, strong absorption capacity …

The predictive power of exact constraints and appropriate norms in density functional theory

AD Kaplan, M Levy, JP Perdew - Annual Review of Physical …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Ground-state Kohn-Sham density functional theory provides, in principle, the exact ground-
state energy and electronic spin densities of real interacting electrons in a static external …

Liquid water contains the building blocks of diverse ice phases

B Monserrat, JG Brandenburg, EA Engel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Water molecules can arrange into a liquid with complex hydrogen-bond networks and at
least 17 experimentally confirmed ice phases with enormous structural diversity. It remains a …

Evolving symbolic density functionals

H Ma, A Narayanaswamy, P Riley, L Li - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Systematic development of accurate density functionals has been a decades-long challenge
for scientists. Despite emerging applications of machine learning (ML) in approximating …

Molecular engineering of anthracene core-based hole-transporting materials for organic and perovskite photovoltaics

A Shafiq, M Adnan, R Hussain, Z Irshad, U Farooq… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Anthracene core-based hole-transporting material containing TIPs (triisopropylsilylacetylene
) has been spotlighted as potential donors for perovskite solar cells (SCs) due to their …

Supervised learning of a chemistry functional with damped dispersion

Y Liu, C Zhang, Z Liu, DG Truhlar, Y Wang… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Kohn–Sham density functional theory is widely used in chemistry, but no functional can
accurately predict the whole range of chemical properties, although recent progress by …