Atomistic modeling of electrocatalysis: Are we there yet?

N Abidi, KRG Lim, ZW Seh… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrified interfaces play a prime role in energy technologies, from batteries and capacitors
to heterogeneous electrocatalysis. The atomistic understanding and modeling of these …

Assessing a first-principles model of an electrochemical interface by comparison with experiment

SN Steinmann, P Sautet - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016 - ACS Publications
Electrified interfaces are central for electrocatalysis, batteries, and molecular electronics.
Experimental characterization of these complex interfaces with atomic resolution is highly …

Recent progress toward ab initio modeling of electrocatalysis

JB Le, XH Yang, YB Zhuang, M Jia… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrode potential is the key factor for controlling electrocatalytic reactions at
electrochemical interfaces, and moreover, it is also known that the pH and solutes (eg …

Emerging Atomistic Modeling Methods for Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis

Z Levell, J Le, S Yu, R Wang, S Ethirajan… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous electrocatalysis lies at the center of various technologies that could help
enable a sustainable future. However, its complexity makes it challenging to accurately and …

Grand-canonical approach to density functional theory of electrocatalytic systems: Thermodynamics of solid-liquid interfaces at constant ion and electrode potentials

MM Melander, MJ Kuisma, TEK Christensen… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Properties of solid-liquid interfaces are of immense importance for electrocatalytic and
electrochemical systems, but modeling such interfaces at the atomic level presents a serious …

Molecular simulation of electrode-solution interfaces

L Scalfi, M Salanne, B Rotenberg - Annual Review of Physical …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Many key industrial processes, from electricity production, conversion, and storage to
electrocatalysis or electrochemistry in general, rely on physical mechanisms occurring at the …

Improving the accuracy of atomistic simulations of the electrochemical interface

R Sundararaman, D Vigil-Fowler, K Schwarz - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Atomistic simulation of the electrochemical double layer is an ambitious undertaking,
requiring quantum mechanical description of electrons, phase space sampling of liquid …

The electrochemical interface in first-principles calculations

K Schwarz, R Sundararaman - Surface science reports, 2020 - Elsevier
First-principles predictions play an important role in understanding chemistry at the
electrochemical interface. Electronic structure calculations are straightforward for vacuum …

Challenges in the first-principles description of reactions in electrocatalysis

S Schnur, A Groß - Catalysis today, 2011 - Elsevier
In spite of the strong relevance of reactions in electrocatalysis, in particular for the
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, the number of theoretical studies …

Machine learning assisted simulations of electrochemical interfaces: recent progress and challenges

Y Zhou, Y Ouyang, Y Zhang, Q Li… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The electrochemical interface, where the adsorption of reactants and electrocatalytic
reactions take place, has long been a focus of attention. Some of the important processes on …