Theoretical modeling of electrochemical proton-coupled electron transfer

RE Warburton, AV Soudackov… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) plays an essential role in a wide range of
electrocatalytic processes. A vast array of theoretical and computational methods have been …

Implicit solvation methods for catalysis at electrified interfaces

S Ringe, NG Hormann, H Oberhofer… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Implicit solvation is an effective, highly coarse-grained approach in atomic-scale simulations
to account for a surrounding liquid electrolyte on the level of a continuous polarizable …

Multilevel computational studies reveal the importance of axial ligand for oxygen reduction reaction on Fe–N–C materials

P Hutchison, PS Rice, RE Warburton… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The systematic improvement of Fe–N–C materials for fuel cell applications has proven
challenging, due in part to an incomplete atomistic understanding of the oxygen reduction …

Emerging properties of carbon based 2D material beyond graphene

S Jana, A Bandyopadhyay, S Datta… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Graphene turns out to be the pioneering material for setting up boulevard to a new zoo of
recently proposed carbon based novel two dimensional (2D) analogues. It is evident that …

Solvation at metal/water interfaces: An ab initio molecular dynamics benchmark of common computational approaches

HH Heenen, JA Gauthier, HH Kristoffersen… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Determining the influence of the solvent on electrochemical reaction energetics is a central
challenge in our understanding of electrochemical interfaces. To date, it is unclear how well …

Molecular insight into the GaP (110)–water interface using machine learning accelerated molecular dynamics

XT Fan, XJ Wen, YB Zhuang, J Cheng - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
GaP has been shown to be a promising photoelectrocatalyst for selective CO 2 reduction to
methanol. Due to the relevance of the interface structure to important processes such as …

Rational design of semiconductor heterojunctions for photocatalysis

G Di Liberto, LA Cipriano, S Tosoni… - … –A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic structure calculations provide a useful complement to experimental
characterization tools in the atomic‐scale design of semiconductor heterojunctions for …

Electrosorption at metal surfaces from first principles

NG Hörmann, N Marzari, K Reuter - npj Computational Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Electrosorption of solvated species at metal electrodes is a most fundamental class of
processes in interfacial electrochemistry. Here, we use its sensitive dependence on the …

Interfacial field-driven proton-coupled electron transfer at graphite-conjugated organic acids

RE Warburton, P Hutchison, MN Jackson… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Interfacial proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions are central to the operation of a
wide array of energy conversion technologies, but molecular-level insights into interfacial …

Catalytic activity and stability of two-dimensional materials for the hydrogen evolution reaction

N Karmodak, O Andreussi - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
The catalytic performances of the surfaces of two-dimensional (2D) materials are
investigated by means of accurate computational thermodynamics approaches, based on …