Carbon nanodots from an in silico perspective

F Mocci, L de Villiers Engelbrecht, C Olla… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanodots (CNDs) are the latest and most shining rising stars among
photoluminescent (PL) nanomaterials. These carbon-based surface-passivated …

Colloquium: The quest for high-conductance DNA

RG Endres, DL Cox, RRP Singh - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
The DNA molecule, well known from biology for containing the genetic code of all living
species, has recently caught the attention of chemists and physicists. A major reason for this …

Product selectivity controlled by zeolite crystals in biomass hydrogenation over a palladium catalyst

C Wang, L Wang, J Zhang, H Wang… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This work delineates the first example for controlling product selectivity in metal-catalyzed
hydrogenation of biomass by zeolite crystals. The key to this success is to combine the …

Origin of Photocatalytic Activity of Nitrogen-Doped TiO2 Nanobelts

J Wang, DN Tafen, JP Lewis, Z Hong… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Experiments combined with the density functional theory (DFT) calculation have been
performed to understand the underlying photocatalysis mechanism of the nitrogen-doped …

Shape-Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of Single-Crystalline Anatase TiO2 (101) Nanobelts

N Wu, J Wang, DN Tafen, H Wang… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Particle size is generally considered to be the primary factor in the design of nanocrystal
photocatalysts, because the reduction of particle size increases the number of active sites …

Atomistic modeling of interfaces and their impact on microstructure and properties

Y Mishin, M Asta, J Li - Acta Materialia, 2010 - Elsevier
Atomic-level modeling of materials provides fundamental insights into phase stability,
structure and properties of crystalline defects, and to physical mechanisms of many …

Advances and applications in the FIREBALL ab initio tight‐binding molecular‐dynamics formalism

JP Lewis, P Jelínek, J Ortega, AA Demkov… - … status solidi (b), 2011 - Wiley Online Library
One of the outstanding advancements in electronic‐structure density‐functional methods is
the Sankey–Niklewski (SN) approach [Sankey and Niklewski, Phys. Rev. B 40, 3979 (1989)]; …

“Learn on the Fly”: A Hybrid Classical and Quantum-Mechanical<? format?> Molecular Dynamics Simulation

G Csányi, T Albaret, MC Payne, A De Vita - Physical review letters, 2004 - APS
We describe and test a novel molecular dynamics method which combines quantum-
mechanical embedding and classical force model optimization into a unified scheme free of …

Second-generation photocatalytic materials: anion-doped TiO2

H Wang, JP Lewis - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Previous experimental studies describe an efficient photoresponse in the visible-light region
for anion-doped TiO 2. Do** with carbon, nitrogen, as well as sulfur, yields promising …

Accurate many-body repulsive potentials for density-functional tight binding from deep tensor neural networks

M Stöhr, L Medrano Sandonas… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We combine density-functional tight binding (DFTB) with deep tensor neural networks
(DTNN) to maximize the strengths of both approaches in predicting structural, energetic, and …