Predicting when phase changes occur in nanoparticles is fundamental for designing the next generation of devices suitable for catalysis, biomedicine, optics, chemical sensing and electronic circuits. The estimate of the temperature at which metallic nanopa ...
We study structural, dynamical, and electronic properties of liquid water through ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on a hybrid functional which includes nonlocal van der Waals (vdW) interactions. The water dimer, the water hexamer, and t ...
We present a simulation of the liquid-vapor interface of argon with explicit inclusion of the three-body interactions. The three-body contributions to the surface tension are calculated using the Kirkwood-Buff approach. Monte Carlo calculations of the long ...
Hydrodynamic interactions play a pivotal role in the dynamical behaviour of mesoscale systems such as colloidal suspensions, yet isolating their contribution from other effects remains a key challenge. Hydrodynamic correlations within a fluid are a consequ ...
We present ab initio molecular dynamics studies on liquid water using density functional theory in conjunction with either dispersion-corrected atom-centered potentials or empirical van der Waals corrections. Our results show that improving the description ...
By using first-principle molecular dynamics within density functional theory, we study the structural properties of amorphous GeSe2 at a temperature T of 300 K. For each property, a statistical average is obtained from six independent partial averages take ...
By using first-principles molecular dynamics within density functional theory, we study the structural properties of amorphous GeSe2 at T = 300 K. The amorphous configurations have been obtained via cooling from the liquid state followed by extensive relax ...