Design principles for zero-strain Li-ion cathodes

X Zhao, Y Tian, Z Lun, Z Cai, T Chen, B Ouyang… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The cycling of cathode materials for Li-ion batteries is often accompanied by a change in
volume, posing a challenge to the integrity of cathode particles and electrolyte/cathode …

Workhorse minimally empirical dispersion-corrected density functional with tests for weakly bound systems:

J Ning, M Kothakonda, JW Furness, AD Kaplan… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
SCAN+ rVV 10 has been demonstrated to be a versatile van der Waals (vdW) density
functional that delivers good predictions of both energetic and structural properties for many …

Overview of photonic devices based on functional material-integrated photonic crystal fibers

X Wang, S Li, T Cheng, J Li - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) have brought tremendous advancements due to their
predominant feature of a peculiar air-hole arrangement in the 2D direction. Functional …

Coverage-dependent adsorption of small gas molecules on black phosphorene: a DFT study

A Sibari, Z Kerrami, M Benaissa, A Kara - Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Using Density Functional Theory (DFT), we perform a detailed computational study
to explore the adsorption behaviors of NH 3, NO, NO 2, CO and CO 2 gas molecules on a …

Oxidation of Mo-Terminated Pit Edges in MoS2 Monolayer

LM Farigliano, CM Monzón-Somazzi… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We employed ab initio molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the oxidation of MoS2
triangular pits with oxidized zz-Mo edges. The purpose of this work is to characterize …

Effects of interstitial water and alkali cations on the expansion, intercalation potential, and orbital coupling of nickel hexacyanoferrate from first principles

S Liu, KC Smith - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Prussian blue analogs (PBAs) are an important material class for aqueous electrochemical
separations and energy storage owing to their ability to reversibly intercalate monovalent …

[HTML][HTML] Density functional theory study of physisorption of ionic liquid pairs on hydroxylated and oxygen terminated α-SiO2 (001) surfaces

X Wang, O Antzutkin, JA Larsson - AIP Advances, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we investigate the ion pair tetramethylphosphonium cation,[P 1, 1, 1, 1]+, and
bis (oxalato) borate anion,[BOB]−, as a model system for the study of ionic liquids interacting …

Adsorption and dissociation of Cl2 on CuO (111) surface with first-principles study

X Yao, P Deng, Q Yu, W Yu, X Chen - Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The first principle calculation based on density functional theory (DFT) was used to discuss
the adsorption and dissociation behaviors of Cl 2 on the perfect and oxygen-deficient …

Strategy to enhance the performance of spin field effect transistors-insert effective intermediate layer graphene

T Wang, SC Zhu, F Liu - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Novel spin field effect transistors (FETs) with metal contacts are designed to reduce the high
Schottky barrier height (SBH) due to Fermi pinning, reducing energy consumption and …

[HTML][HTML] Describing adsorption of benzene, thiophene, and xenon on coinage metals by using the Zaremba–Kohn theory-based model

S Adhikari, NK Nepal, H Tang… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Semilocal (SL) density functional approximations (DFAs) are widely applied but have
limitations due to their inability to incorporate long-range van der Waals (vdW) interaction …