Molecular views on Fischer–Tropsch synthesis

KT Rommens, M Saeys - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
For nearly a century, the Fischer–Tropsch (FT) reaction has been subject of intense debate.
Various molecular views on the active sites and on the reaction mechanism have been …

Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Molecular physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In the past 30 years, Kohn–Sham density functional theory has emerged as the most popular
electronic structure method in computational chemistry. To assess the ever-increasing …

Enhancing the stability of cobalt spinel oxide towards sustainable oxygen evolution in acid

A Li, S Kong, C Guo, H Ooka, K Adachi, D Hashizume… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Active and stable electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction are required to produce
hydrogen from water using renewable electricity. Here we report that incorporating Mn into …

Coverage-driven selectivity switch from ethylene to acetate in high-rate CO2/CO electrolysis

P Wei, D Gao, T Liu, H Li, J Sang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tuning catalyst microenvironments by electrolytes and organic modifications is effective in
improving CO2 electrolysis performance. An alternative way is to use mixed CO/CO2 feeds …

Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem

J Kirkpatrick, B McMorrow, DHP Turban, AL Gaunt… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Density functional theory describes matter at the quantum level, but all popular
approximations suffer from systematic errors that arise from the violation of mathematical …

[HTML][HTML] Acidic CO2-to-HCOOH electrolysis with industrial-level current on phase engineered tin sulfide

H Shen, H Jin, H Li, H Wang, J Duan, Y Jiao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acidic CO2-to-HCOOH electrolysis represents a sustainable route for value-added CO2
transformations. However, competing hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in acid remains a …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerating electrochemical CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products via asymmetric intermediate binding at confined nanointerfaces

J Zhang, C Guo, S Fang, X Zhao, L Li, H Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R) to ethylene and ethanol enables the long-
term storage of renewable electricity in valuable multi-carbon (C2+) chemicals. However …

[HTML][HTML] Spin-polarized oxygen evolution reaction under magnetic field

X Ren, T Wu, Y Sun, Y Li, G Xian, X Liu, C Shen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the bottleneck that limits the energy efficiency of
water-splitting. The process involves four electrons' transfer and the generation of triplet …

The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry

G Li Manni, I Fdez. Galván, A Alavi… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The developments of the open-source OpenMolcas chemistry software environment since
spring 2020 are described, with a focus on novel functionalities accessible in the stable …

[HTML][HTML] Spin pinning effect to reconstructed oxyhydroxide layer on ferromagnetic oxides for enhanced water oxidation

T Wu, X Ren, Y Sun, S Sun, G Xian, GG Scherer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Producing hydrogen by water electrolysis suffers from the kinetic barriers in the oxygen
evolution reaction (OER) that limits the overall efficiency. With spin-dependent kinetics in …