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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
Physical Chemistry Models for Chemical Research in the XXth and XXIst Centuries
Josep M Ribó1,2, David Hochberg3
1Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, c. Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Abstract:
Thermodynamic hypotheses and models are the touchstone for chemical results, but the actual models based on time-invariance, which have performed efficiently in the development of chemistry, are nowadays invalid for the interpretation of the behavior of complex systems exhibiting nonlinear kinetics and with matter and energy exchange flows with the surroundings. Such fields of research will necessarily foment and drive the use of thermodynamic models based on the description of irreversibility at the macroscopic level, instead of the current models which are strongly anchored in microreversibility.
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