Ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics investigations on the excited carriers in condensed matter systems

Q Zheng, W Chu, C Zhao, L Zhang… - Wiley …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charge carriers in condensed matter systems play an
important role in optoelectronics and solar energy conversion. Yet it is challenging to …

Hot-electron-mediated surface chemistry: toward electronic control of catalytic activity

JY Park, SM Kim, H Lee… - Accounts of chemical …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus Energy dissipation at surfaces and interfaces is mediated by excitation of
elementary processes, including phonons and electronic excitation, once external energy is …

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 …

Electron-hole pair excitation determines the mechanism of hydrogen atom adsorption

O Bünermann, H Jiang, Y Dorenkamp, A Kandratsenka… - Science, 2015‏ - science.org
How much translational energy atoms and molecules lose in collisions at surfaces
determines whether they adsorb or scatter. The fact that hydrogen (H) atoms stick to metal …

Chemical dynamics from the gas‐phase to surfaces

DJ Auerbach, JC Tully, AM Wodtke - Natural Sciences, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The field of gas‐phase chemical dynamics has developed superb experimental methods to
probe the detailed outcome of gas‐phase chemical reactions. These experiments inspired …

Quantum and classical dynamics of reactive scattering of H 2 from metal surfaces

GJ Kroes, C Díaz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We review the state-of-the art in dynamics calculations on the reactive scattering of H2 from
metal surfaces, which is an important model system of an elementary reaction that is …

Electronic friction dominates hydrogen hot-atom relaxation on Pd (100)

M Blanco-Rey, JI Juaristi, R Díez Muiño, HF Busnengo… - Physical review …, 2014‏ - APS
We study the dynamics of transient hot H atoms on Pd (100) that originated from dissociative
adsorption of H 2. The methodology developed here, denoted AIMDEF, consists of ab initio …

Electronically non-adiabatic influences in surface chemistry and dynamics

AM Wodtke - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Electronically nonadiabatic interactions between molecules and metal surfaces are now well
known. Evidence is particularly clear from studies of diatomic molecules that molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Non-adiabatic effects in elementary reaction processes at metal surfaces

M Alducin, RD Muiño, JI Juaristi - Progress in Surface Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Great success has been achieved in the modeling of gas-surface elementary processes by
the use of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. However, in metal surfaces low energy …

The dynamics of molecular interactions and chemical reactions at metal surfaces: Testing the foundations of theory

K Golibrzuch, N Bartels, DJ Auerbach… - Annual review of …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
We review studies of molecular interactions and chemical reactions at metal surfaces,
emphasizing progress toward a predictive theory of surface chemistry and catalysis. For …