Revisiting the nature of chemical bonding in chalcogenides to explain and design their properties

M Wuttig, CF Schön, J Lötfering, P Golub… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum chemical bonding descriptors have recently been utilized to design materials with
tailored properties. Their usage to facilitate a quantitative description of bonding in …

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 …

Understanding hydrogen electrocatalysis by probing the hydrogen-bond network of water at the electrified Pt–solution interface

Q Sun, NJ Oliveira, S Kwon, S Tyukhtenko, JJ Guo… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Rational construction of the electrode–solution interface where electrochemical processes
occur is of paramount importance in electrochemistry. Efforts to gain better control and …

Designing single-site alloy catalysts using a degree-of-isolation descriptor

X Chang, ZJ Zhao, Z Lu, S Chen, R Luo, S Zha… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Geometrically isolated metal atoms in alloy catalysts can target efficient and selective
catalysis. However, the geometric and electronic disturbance between the active atom and …

LOBSTER: A tool to extract chemical bonding from plane‐wave based DFT

S Maintz, VL Deringer, AL Tchougréeff, R Dronskowski - 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The computer program LOBSTER (Local Orbital Basis Suite Towards Electronic‐Structure
Reconstruction) enables chemical‐bonding analysis based on periodic plane‐wave (PAW) …

[HTML][HTML] Reactivity, stability, and thermodynamics of para-methylpyridinium-based ionic liquids: Insight from DFT, NCI, and QTAIM

EA Eno, H Louis, TO Unimuke, TE Gber, IJ Mbonu… - Journal of Ionic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ionic liquids (ILs) have lately piqued scientific attention due to their potential applications in
green transition technologies such as catalysis, electrochemistry, and photovoltaic. The …

What is NBO analysis and how is it useful?

F Weinhold, CR Landis… - International reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis is one of many available options for 'translating'
computational solutions of Schrödinger's wave equation into the familiar language of …

Introducing DDEC6 atomic population analysis: part 1. Charge partitioning theory and methodology

TA Manz, NG Limas - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Net atomic charges (NACs) are widely used in all chemical sciences to concisely summarize
key information about the partitioning of electrons among atoms in materials. The objective …

Introducing DDEC6 atomic population analysis: part 3. Comprehensive method to compute bond orders

TA Manz - RSC advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Developing a comprehensive method to compute bond orders is a problem that has eluded
chemists since Lewis's pioneering work on chemical bonding a century ago. Here, a …

Metal affinity of support dictates sintering of gold catalysts

JC Liu, L Luo, H Xiao, J Zhu, Y He… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sintering during heterogeneous catalytic reactions is one of the most notorious deactivation
channels in catalysts of supported metal nanoparticles. It is therefore critical to understand …