Modelling heterogeneous interfaces for solar water splitting

TA Pham, Y Ping, G Galli - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The generation of hydrogen from water and sunlight offers a promising approach for
producing scalable and sustainable carbon-free energy. The key of a successful solar-to …

The organic–2D transition metal dichalcogenide heterointerface

YL Huang, YJ Zheng, Z Song, D Chi… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the first isolation of graphene, new classes of two-dimensional (2D) materials have
offered fascinating platforms for fundamental science and technology explorations at the …

Determination of surface potential and electrical double-layer structure at the aqueous electrolyte-nanoparticle interface

MA Brown, Z Abbas, A Kleibert, RG Green, A Goel… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
The structure of the electrical double layer has been debated for well over a century, since it
mediates colloidal interactions, regulates surface structure, controls reactivity, sets …

Theoretical insights into the surface physics and chemistry of redox-active oxides

R Rousseau, VA Glezakou, A Selloni - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Redox-active oxides find use in many applications, including catalysts, photovoltaic devices,
self-cleaning glasses, chemical sensors and electronic components. Their utility derives …

Determining potentials of zero charge of metal electrodes versus the standard hydrogen electrode from density-functional-theory-based molecular dynamics

J Le, M Iannuzzi, A Cuesta, J Cheng - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We develop a computationally efficient scheme to determine the potentials of zero charge
(PZC) of metal-water interfaces with respect to the standard hydrogen electrode. We …

Big data in a nano world: a review on computational, data-driven design of nanomaterials structures, properties, and synthesis

RX Yang, CA McCandler, O Andriuc, M Siron… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The recent rise of computational, data-driven research has significant potential to accelerate
materials discovery. Automated workflows and materials databases are being rapidly …

Integration of theory and experiment in the modelling of heterogeneous electrocatalysis

S Hammes-Schiffer, G Galli - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneous electrocatalysis is critical to many energy conversion processes. Theoretical
and computational approaches are essential to interpret experimental data and provide the …

Stability of solid electrolyte interphase components on lithium metal and reactive anode material surfaces

K Leung, F Soto, K Hankins, PB Balbuena… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Lithium ion batteries (LIB) can feature reactive anodes that operate at low potentials, such as
lithium metal or silicon, passivated by solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) films. SEI is known to …

Ab Initio Study of Interaction of Water, Hydroxyl Radicals, and Hydroxide Ions with CH3NH3PbI3 and CH3NH3PbBr3 Surfaces

L Zhang, PHL Sit - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015 - ACS Publications
Although there have been tremendous breakthroughs in perovskite solar cells over the past
few years, degradation of perovskite has been a huge problem. Recently, a number of …

GW method and Bethe–Salpeter equation for calculating electronic excitations

X Leng, F Jin, M Wei, Y Ma - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of GW approximation to the electron's self‐energy by Hedin in the 1960s,
where G and W denote the one‐particle Green's function and the screened Coulomb …