First‐principles modeling of molecular crystals: structures and stabilities, temperature and pressure

J Hoja, AM Reilly, A Tkatchenko - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The understanding of the structure, stability, and response properties of molecular crystals at
finite temperature and pressure is crucial for the field of crystal engineering and their …

Predicting molecular crystal properties from first principles: Finite-temperature thermochemistry to NMR crystallography

GJO Beran, JD Hartman, YN Heit - Accounts of Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Molecular crystals occur widely in pharmaceuticals, foods, explosives, organic
semiconductors, and many other applications. Thanks to substantial progress in electronic …

A complete description of thermodynamic stabilities of molecular crystals

V Kapil, EA Engel - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Predictions of relative stabilities of (competing) molecular crystals are of great technological
relevance, most notably for the pharmaceutical industry. However, they present a long …

Anharmonic and quantum fluctuations in molecular crystals: A first-principles study of the stability of paracetamol

M Rossi, P Gasparotto, M Ceriotti - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Molecular crystals often exist in multiple competing polymorphs, showing significantly
different physicochemical properties. Computational crystal structure prediction is key to …

Accurate force fields and methods for modelling organic molecular crystals at finite temperatures

J Nyman, OS Pundyke, GM Day - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We present an assessment of the performance of several force fields for modelling
intermolecular interactions in organic molecular crystals using the X23 benchmark set. The …

First-principles statistical mechanics of multicomponent crystals

A Van der Ven, JC Thomas, B Puchala… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The importance of configurational, vibrational, and electronic excitations in crystalline solids
of technological interest makes a rigorous treatment of thermal excitations an essential …

First-principles stability ranking of molecular crystal polymorphs with the DFT+ MBD approach

J Hoja, A Tkatchenko - Faraday discussions, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to accurately calculate the relative stabilities of numerous polymorphs of a given
molecular crystal is crucial for the success of any molecular crystal structure prediction …

Predicting finite-temperature properties of crystalline carbon dioxide from first principles with quantitative accuracy

YN Heit, KD Nanda, GJO Beran - Chemical Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular crystal structures, thermodynamics, and mechanical properties can vary
substantially with temperature, and predicting these temperature-dependencies correctly is …

Reliable crystal structure predictions from first principles

R Nikhar, K Szalewicz - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
An inexpensive and reliable method for molecular crystal structure predictions (CSPs) has
been developed. The new CSP protocol starts from a two-dimensional graph of crystal's …

Ab initio molecular crystal structures, spectra, and phase diagrams

S Hirata, K Gilliard, X He, J Li… - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Molecular crystals are chemists' solids in the sense that their structures and
properties can be understood in terms of those of the constituent molecules merely …