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Accurate and efficient band-gap predictions for metal halide perovskites at finite temperature

Alfredo Pasquarello, Patrick Gono, Thomas Bischoff, Aleksei Tal, Haiyuan Wang

We develop a computationally efficient scheme to accurately determine finite-temperature band gaps for metal halide perovskites belonging to the class ABX(3) (A = Rb, Cs; B = Ge, Sn, Pb; and X = F, Cl, Br, I). First, an initial estimate of the band gap is ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

High-performance NiOOH/FeOOH electrode for OER catalysis

Alfredo Pasquarello, Patrick Gono

The outstanding performance of NiOOH/FeOOH-based oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts is rationalized in terms of a bifunctional mechanism involving two distinct active sites. In this mechanism, the OOHads reaction intermediate, which unfavorably affe ...

2021

Computational Modeling of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction at Semiconductor-Water Interfaces: A Path Towards Breaking Linear Scaling Relationships

Patrick Gono

Photoelectrochemical water splitting is a promising source of clean, renewable fuel in the form of hydrogen. Despite extensive research endeavors, the widespread adoption of this technology is impeded due to suboptimal catalysts for the oxygen evolution re ...

EPFL2020

Unraveling the synergy between metal-organic frameworks and co-catalysts in photocatalytic water splitting

Alfredo Pasquarello, Zhendong Guo, Kyriakos Stylianou, Stavroula Kampouri, Patrick Gono, Stefano Falletta

We investigate the synergy occurring in photocatalytic water splitting between the metal-organic framework MIL-125-NH(2)and two co-catalysts, namely NiO and Ni2P, by calculating their band edge alignment with respect to the redox levels of liquid water. Fo ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Oxygen evolution reaction: Bifunctional mechanism breaking the linear scaling relationship

Alfredo Pasquarello, Patrick Gono

The bifunctional mechanism for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) involving two distinct reaction sites is studied through the computational hydrogen electrode method for a set of catalyst materials including rutile TiO2(110), anatase TiO2(101), SnO2(110) ...

2020

Effect of the Solvent on the Oxygen Evolution Reaction at the TiO2-Water Interface

Alfredo Pasquarello, Francesco Ambrosio, Patrick Gono

We investigate the solvation effect of water on the overpotentials of the oxygen evolution reaction on rutile TiO2 by applying the thermodynamic integration method on atomistic model interfaces with and without the water molecules. We compare the results a ...

2019

Reaction pathway of oxygen evolution on Pt(111) revealed through constant Fermi level molecular dynamics

Alfredo Pasquarello, Assil Bouzid, Patrick Gono

The pathway of the oxygen evolution reaction at the Pt(111)/water interface is disclosed through constant Fermi level molecular dynamics. Upon the application of a positive bias potential H2Oads and OHads adsorbates are found to arrange in a hexagonal latt ...

2019

Alignment of Redox Levels at Semiconductor-Water Interfaces

Alfredo Pasquarello, Wei Chen, Zhendong Guo, Francesco Ambrosio, Patrick Gono

2018

Surface Polarons Reducing Overpotentials in the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Alfredo Pasquarello, Francesco Ambrosio, Julia Anna Wiktor, Patrick Gono

2018