Combining machine learning and computational chemistry for predictive insights into chemical systems

JA Keith, V Vassilev-Galindo, B Cheng… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Machine learning models are poised to make a transformative impact on chemical sciences
by dramatically accelerating computational algorithms and amplifying insights available from …

[HTML][HTML] Siesta: Recent developments and applications

A García, N Papior, A Akhtar, E Artacho… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A review of the present status, recent enhancements, and applicability of the S iesta program
is presented. Since its debut in the mid-1990s, S iesta's flexibility, efficiency, and free …

The role of ruthenium in improving the kinetics of hydrogen oxidation and evolution reactions of platinum

S Zhu, X Qin, F Xiao, S Yang, Y Xu, Z Tan, J Li, J Yan… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Modifying Pt surfaces by foreign metals with a higher oxophilicity is a promising approach to
improve the kinetics of hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions. The role of foreign …

Bifunctional hydroformylation on heterogeneous Rh-WOx pair site catalysts

I Ro, J Qi, S Lee, M Xu, X Yan, Z Xie, G Zakem… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Metal-catalysed reactions are often hypothesized to proceed on bifunctional active sites,
whereby colocalized reactive species facilitate distinct elementary steps in a catalytic …

First-principles design of a single-atom–alloy propane dehydrogenation catalyst

RT Hannagan, G Giannakakis, R Réocreux… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The complexity of heterogeneous catalysts means that a priori design of new catalytic
materials is difficult, but the well-defined nature of single-atom–alloy catalysts has made it …

Nudged elastic band method for molecular reactions using energy-weighted springs combined with eigenvector following

V Ásgeirsson, BO Birgisson, R Bjornsson… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The climbing image nudged elastic band method (CI-NEB) is used to identify reaction
coordinates and to find saddle points representing transition states of reactions. It can make …

QuantumATK: an integrated platform of electronic and atomic-scale modelling tools

S Smidstrup, T Markussen… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
QuantumATK is an integrated set of atomic-scale modelling tools developed since 2003 by
professional software engineers in collaboration with academic researchers. While different …

Tandem propane dehydrogenation and surface oxidation catalysts for selective propylene synthesis

W Wang, S Chen, C Pei, R Luo, J Sun, H Song, G Sun… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Direct propane dehydrogenation (PDH) to propylene is a desirable commercial reaction but
is highly endothermic and severely limited by thermodynamic equilibrium. Routes that …

Ultrasmall amorphous zirconia nanoparticles catalyse polyolefin hydrogenolysis

S Chen, A Tennakoon, KE You, AL Paterson… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Carbon–carbon bond cleavage reactions, adapted to deconstruct aliphatic hydrocarbon
polymers and recover the intrinsic energy and carbon value in plastic waste, have typically …

Operando time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy reveals the chemical nature enabling highly selective CO2 reduction

SC Lin, CC Chang, SY Chiu, HT Pai, TY Liao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Copper electrocatalysts have been shown to selectively reduce carbon dioxide to
hydrocarbons. Nevertheless, the absence of a systematic study based on time-resolved …