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Multiscale Sampling of a Heterogeneous Water/Metal Catalyst Interface using Density Functional Theory and Force-Field Molecular Dynamics
Published on: April 12, 2019
Exchange-correlation functional with broad accuracy for metallic and nonmetallic compounds, kinetics, and noncovalent
Yan Zhao1, Nathan E Schultz, D G Truhlar
1Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, USA.
Abstract:
By incorporating kinetic-energy density in a balanced way in the exchange and correlational functionals and removing self-correlation effects, we have designed a density functional that is broadly applicable to organometallic, inorganometallic, and nonmetallic bonding, thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, and noncovalent interactions as well as satisfying the uniform electron gas limit. The average error is reduced by a factor of 1.3 compared with the best previously available functionals, but even more significantly, we find a functional that has a high accuracy for all four categories of interaction.
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