Best‐practice DFT protocols for basic molecular computational chemistry

M Bursch, JM Mewes, A Hansen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, many chemical investigations are supported by routine calculations of molecular
structures, reaction energies, barrier heights, and spectroscopic properties. The lion's share …

[HTML][HTML] DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science

AM Teale, T Helgaker, A Savin, C Adamo… - Physical chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, the history, present status, and future of density-functional theory (DFT) is
informally reviewed and discussed by 70 workers in the field, including molecular scientists …

Computational discovery of transition-metal complexes: from high-throughput screening to machine learning

A Nandy, C Duan, MG Taylor, F Liu, AH Steeves… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal complexes are attractive targets for the design of catalysts and functional
materials. The behavior of the metal–organic bond, while very tunable for achieving target …

Computational methods in heterogeneous catalysis

BWJ Chen, L Xu, M Mavrikakis - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented ability of computations to probe atomic-level details of catalytic systems
holds immense promise for the fundamentals-based bottom-up design of novel …

Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: A Review of Ab Initio Mechanism, Kinetics, and Multiscale Modeling Simulations

Z Kovacic, B Likozar, M Hus - ACS catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Climate change has prompted scientists to search for possible ways of reducing CO2
emissions or even capturing it from the atmosphere. Catalytic reduction of CO2 into value …

Delocalization error: The greatest outstanding challenge in density‐functional theory

KR Bryenton, AA Adeleke, SG Dale… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Every day, density‐functional theory (DFT) is routinely applied to computational modeling of
molecules and materials with the expectation of high accuracy. However, in certain …

[HTML][HTML] Titanium dioxide as the most used photocatalyst for water purification: An overview

SJ Armaković, MM Savanović, S Armaković - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
Titanium dioxide (TiO2), one of the most frequently used materials in general, has emerged
as an excellent photocatalytic material for environmental applications. In this review …

[HTML][HTML] Realistic phase diagram of water from “first principles” data-driven quantum simulations

SL Bore, F Paesani - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Since the experimental characterization of the low-pressure region of water's phase diagram
in the early 1900s, scientists have been on a quest to understand the thermodynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Exchange-correlation functionals for band gaps of solids: benchmark, reparametrization and machine learning

P Borlido, J Schmidt, AW Huran, F Tran… - npj Computational …, 2020 - nature.com
We conducted a large-scale density-functional theory study on the influence of the exchange-
correlation functional in the calculation of electronic band gaps of solids. First, we use the …

Electronic structure modeling of metal–organic frameworks

JL Mancuso, AM Mroz, KN Le, CH Hendon - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Owing to their molecular building blocks, yet highly crystalline nature, metal–organic
frameworks (MOFs) sit at the interface between molecule and material. Their diverse …