activity
20192026
collaborators

6 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A Critical Examination of Active Learning Workflows in Materials Science

Akhil S. Nair, Lucas Foppa

Active learning (AL) plays a critical role in materials science, enabling applications such as the construction of machine-learning interatomic potentials for atomistic simulations…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package

Joseph W. Abbott, Carlos Mera Acosta, Alaa Akkoush +203

Electronic-structure theory is the foundation of the description of materials including multiscale modeling of their properties and functions. Obviously, without sufficient accurac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Materials Database from All-electron Hybrid Functional DFT Calculations

Akhil S. Nair, Lucas Foppa, Matthias Scheffler

Materials databases built from calculations based on density functional approximations play an important role in the discovery of materials with improved properties. Most databases…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Materials-Discovery Workflows Guided by Symbolic Regression: Identifying Acid-Stable Oxides for Electrocatalysis

Akhil S. Nair, Lucas Foppa, Matthias Scheffler

The efficiency of active learning (AL) approaches to identify materials with desired properties relies on the knowledge of a few parameters describing the property. However, these…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Unravelling Single Atom Electrocatalytic Activity of Transition Metal Doped Phosphorene

Akhil S. Nair, Rajeev Ahuja, Biswarup Pathak

Developing single atom catalysts (SACs) for chemical reactions of vital importance in renewable energy sector has emerged as a need of the hour. In this perspective, transition met…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Importance of Dispersion and Relativistic Effects for ORR Overpotential Calculation on Pt(111) surface

Akhil S. Nair, Biswarup Pathak

Density functional theory (DFT) has been used as an important tool for studying activity of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts. The dispersion effects, which are not encount…