r2SCAN-3c: A “Swiss army knife” composite electronic-structure method

S Grimme, A Hansen, S Ehlert… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The recently proposed r 2 SCAN meta-generalized-gradient approximation (mGGA) of
Furness and co-workers is used to construct an efficient composite electronic-structure …

[HTML][HTML] r2SCAN-D4: Dispersion corrected meta-generalized gradient approximation for general chemical applications

S Ehlert, U Huniar, J Ning, JW Furness, J Sun… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We combine a regularized variant of the strongly constrained and appropriately normed
semilocal density functional [J. Sun, A. Ruzsinszky, and JP Perdew, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 …

Performance comparison of and SCAN metaGGA density functionals for solid materials via an automated, high-throughput computational workflow

R Kingsbury, AS Gupta, CJ Bartel, JM Munro… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Computational materials discovery efforts utilize hundreds or thousands of density functional
theory calculations to predict material properties. Historically, such efforts have performed …

Redox-programmable spin-crossover behaviors in a cationic framework

SG Wu, LF Wang, ZY Ruan, SN Du… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) provide versatile platforms to construct multi-responsive
materials. Herein, by introducing the neutral tetradentate ligand and the linear …

Workhorse minimally empirical dispersion-corrected density functional with tests for weakly bound systems:

J Ning, M Kothakonda, JW Furness, AD Kaplan… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
SCAN+ rVV 10 has been demonstrated to be a versatile van der Waals (vdW) density
functional that delivers good predictions of both energetic and structural properties for many …

[HTML][HTML] Construction of meta-GGA functionals through restoration of exact constraint adherence to regularized SCAN functionals

JW Furness, AD Kaplan, J Ning, JP Perdew… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The strongly constrained and appropriately normed (SCAN) meta-GGA exchange–
correlation functional [Sun et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036402 (2015)] is constructed as a …

Understanding the Electronic Structure Basis for N2 Binding to FeMoco: A Systematic Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Investigation

Y Pang, R Bjornsson - Inorganic Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
The FeMo cofactor (FeMoco) of Mo nitrogenase is responsible for reducing dinitrogen to
ammonia, but it requires the addition of 3–4 e–/H+ pairs before N2 even binds. A binding …

Testing the r2SCAN Density Functional for the Thermodynamic Stability of Solids with and without a van der Waals Correction

M Kothakonda, AD Kaplan, EB Isaacs, CJ Bartel… - ACS Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A central aim of materials discovery is an accurate and numerically reliable description of
thermodynamic properties, such as the enthalpies of formation and decomposition. The …

Benchmarking Periodic Density Functional Theory Calculations for Spin-State Energies in Spin-Crossover Systems

S Gómez-Coca, E Ruiz - Inorganic Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Spin energetics is one of the biggest challenges associated with energy calculations for
electronic structure methods. The energy differences of the spin states in spin-crossover …

Barriers to predictive high-throughput screening for spin-crossover

D Mejía-Rodríguez, A Albavera-Mata, E Fonseca… - Computational Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Current spin-crossover (SCO) energy calculations depend on nearly artisanal skill in picking
quantum mechanical approximations and computational methods. That is incompatible with …