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most citedPerspective: Advances and challenges in treating van der Waals dispersion forces in density functional theory

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physics.chem-ph20226 cited

Understanding the anomalously low dielectric constant of confined water: an ab initio study

Thomas Dufils, Christoph Schran, Ji Chen +3

Recent experiments have shown that the out-of-plane dielectric constant of water confined in nanoslits of graphite and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is vanishingly small. Despite e…

physics.chem-ph20224 cited

Crumbling Crystals: On the Dissolution Mechanism of NaCl in Water

Niamh O'Neill, Christoph Schran, Stephen J. Cox +1

Life on Earth depends upon the dissolution of ionic salts in water, particularly NaCl. However, an atomistic scale understanding of the process remains elusive. Simulations lend th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

General embedded cluster protocol for accurate modeling of oxygen vacancies in metal-oxides

Benjamin Xu Shi, Venkat Kapil, Andrea Zen +3

The O vacancy (Ov) formation energy, , is an important property of a metal-oxide, governing its performance in applications such as fuel cells or heterogeneous catal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci20221 cited

Tracking single atoms in a liquid environment

Nicholas Clark, Daniel J. Kelly, Mingwei Zhou +7

The chemical behaviour of single metal atoms largely depends on the local coordination environment, including interactions with the substrate and with the surrounding gas or liquid…

cond-mat.soft202215 cited

How do interfaces alter the dynamics of supercooled water?

Piero Gasparotto, Martin Fitzner, Stephen J. Cox +2

The structure of liquid water in the proximity of an interface can deviate significantly from that of bulk water, with surface-induced structural perturbations typically converging…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Water flow in single-wall nanotubes: Oxygen makes it slip, hydrogen makes it stick

Fabian L Thiemann, Christoph Schran, Patrick Rowe +2

Experimental measurements have reported ultra-fast and radius-dependent water transport in carbon nanotubes which are absent in boron nitride nanotubes. Despite considerable effort…