Modeling polymorphic molecular crystals with electronic structure theory

GJO Beran - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Interest in molecular crystals has grown thanks to their relevance to pharmaceuticals,
organic semiconductor materials, foods, and many other applications. Electronic structure …

Frontiers of molecular crystal structure prediction for pharmaceuticals and functional organic materials

GJO Beran - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The reliability of organic molecular crystal structure prediction has improved tremendously in
recent years. Crystal structure predictions for small, mostly rigid molecules are quickly …

The Chemical Imagination at Work in Very Tight Places

W Grochala, R Hoffmann, J Feng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Pressure and temperature influence all properties of a chemical system. And determine the
fate of a chemical reaction. Gases—and phase and chemical equilibria involving gaseous …

Evolutionary crystal structure prediction as a method for the discovery of minerals and materials

AR Oganov, Y Ma, AO Lyakhov… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Prediction of stable crystal structures at given pressure-temperature conditions, based only
on the knowledge of the chemical composition, is a central problem of condensed matter …

Novel high-pressure structures of MgCO3, CaCO3 and CO2 and their role in Earth's lower mantle

AR Oganov, S Ono, Y Ma, CW Glass… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Most of the oxidized carbon in the Earth's lower mantle is believed to be stored in the high-
pressure forms of MgCO3 and/or CaCO3 or possibly even CO2. Recently, through ab initio …

Structure, bonding, and mineralogy of carbon at extreme conditions

AR Oganov, RJ Hemley… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The nature and extent of Earth's deep carbon cycle remains uncertain. This chapter
considers high-pressure carbon-bearing minerals, including those of Earth's mantle and …

Constrained evolutionary algorithm for structure prediction of molecular crystals: methodology and applications

Q Zhu, AR Oganov, CW Glass… - … Section B: Structural …, 2012 - journals.iucr.org
Evolutionary crystal structure prediction proved to be a powerful approach for studying a
wide range of materials. Here we present a specifically designed algorithm for the prediction …

On the Energetic Stability and Electrochemistry of Li2MnSiO4 Polymorphs

ME Arroyo-deDompablo, R Dominko… - Chemistry of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The thermodynamic stability of Li2MnSiO4 polymorphs and their electrochemical properties
as electrode for Li batteries are investigated combining experimental and computational …

Ab initio prediction of the polymorph phase diagram for crystalline methanol

C Červinka, GJO Beran - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic crystals frequently adopt multiple distinct polymorphs exhibiting different properties.
The ability to predict not only what crystal forms might occur, but under what experimental …

Ab initio molecular crystal structures, spectra, and phase diagrams

S Hirata, K Gilliard, X He, J Li… - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Molecular crystals are chemists' solids in the sense that their structures and
properties can be understood in terms of those of the constituent molecules merely …