Publications de Oliviero Andreussi

Functional Extrapolations to Tame Unbound Anions in Density-Functional Theory Calculations

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Francesco Nattino

Standard flavors of density-functional theory (DFT) calculations are known to fail in describing anions, due to large self-interaction errors. The problem may be circumvented using localized basis sets of reduced size, leaving no variational flexibility fo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Solvent-Aware Interfaces in Continuum Solvation

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Nicolas Georg Hörmann, Francesco Nattino

Continuum models to handle solvent and electrolyte effects in an effective way have a long tradition in quantum-chemistry simulations and are nowadays also being introduced in computational condensed-matter and materials simulations. A key ingredient of co ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Continuum models of the electrochemical diffuse layer in electronic-structure calculations

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Francesco Nattino, Matthew Truscott

Continuum electrolyte models represent a practical tool to account for the presence of the diffuse layer at electrochemical interfaces. However, despite the increasing popularity of these in the field of materials science, it remains unclear which features ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Nicolas Georg Hörmann

We discuss grand canonical simulations based on density-functional theory to study the thermodynamic properties of electrochemical interfaces of metallic electrodes in aqueous environments. Water is represented using implicit solvation, here via the self-c ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

An In Situ Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction: Selectivity Dependence on Surface C-Bound and O-Bound Reaction Intermediates

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Francesco Nattino

The CO2 electroreduction reaction (CO2RR) is a promising avenue to convert greenhouse gases into high-value fuels and chemicals, in addition to being an attractive method for storing intermittent renewable energy. Although polycrystalline Cu surfaces have ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Absolute band alignment at semiconductor-water interfaces using explicit and implicit descriptions for liquid water

Alfredo Pasquarello, Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Zhendong Guo, Francesco Ambrosio

Quantum mechanical simulations that include the effects of the liquid environment are highly relevant for the characterization of solid-liquid interfaces, which is crucial for the design of a wide range of devices. In this work we present a rigorous and sy ...

2019

Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction

Emad Oveisi, Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Nicolas Georg Hörmann, Jianfeng Huang, Gian Luca De Gregorio

In catalysis science stability is as crucial as activity and selectivity. Understanding the degradation pathways occurring during operation and developing mitigation strategies will eventually improve catalyst design, thus facilitating the translation of b ...

Nature Research2018

Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with QUANTUM ESPRESSO

Roberto Car, Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Emine Küçükbenli, Ngoc Linh Nguyen, Riccardo Sabatini, Giorgia Fugallo, Lorenzo Paulatto, Matteo Cococcioni, Nicola Colonna, Iurii Timrov, Andrea Floris, Andrea Ferretti

QUANTUM ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of open-source computer codes for quantum simulations of materials using state-of-the-art electronic-structure techniques, based on density-functional theory, density-functional perturbation theory, and many-body per ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

eQE: An open-source density functional embedding theory code for the condensed phase

Oliviero Andreussi

In this work, we present the main features and algorithmic details of a novel implementation of the frozen density embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem density functional theory (DFT) that is specifically designed to enable ab initio molecular dynamics ...

Wiley2017

Soft-Sphere Continuum Solvation in Electronic-Structure Calculations

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi

We present an implicit solvation approach where the interface-between the quantum-mechanical solute and the surrounding environment is, described by a fully continuous permittivity built up with atomic-centered "soft" spheres. This approach combines many o ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Classical Force Fields Tailored for QM Applications: Is It Really a Feasible Strategy?

Oliviero Andreussi

Classical molecular dynamics is more and more often coupled to quantum mechanical based techniques as a statistical tool to sample configurations of molecular systems embedded in complex environments. Nonetheless, the classical potentials describing the mo ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Hydrocarbon adsorption in an aqueous environment: A computational study of alkyls on Cu(111)

Oliviero Andreussi

Hydrocarbon chains are important intermediates in various aqueous-phase surface processes, such as CO2 electroreduction, aqueous Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, and aqueous phase reforming of biomass-derived molecules. Further, the interaction between water and ...

American Institute of Physics2016

A generalized Poisson and Poisson-Boltzmann solver for electrostatic environments

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi

The computational study of chemical reactions in complex, wet environments is critical for applications in many fields. It is often essential to study chemical reactions in the presence of applied electrochemical potentials, taking into account the non-tri ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Self-consistent continuum solvation for optical absorption of complex molecular systems in solution

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Iurii Timrov

We introduce a new method to compute the optical absorption spectra of complex molecular systems in solution, based on the Liouville approach to time-dependent density-functional perturbation theory and the revised self-consistent continuum solvation model ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Electrostatics of solvated systems in periodic boundary conditions

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi

Continuum solvation methods can provide an accurate and inexpensive embedding of quantum simulations in liquid or complex dielectric environments. Notwithstanding a long history and manifold applications to isolated systems in open boundary conditions, the ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Insights into the electrochemical stability of ionic liquids from first principles calculations and molecular dynamics simulations

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Yihan Wu

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Towards first-principles electrochemistry

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Nicéphore Arthur François Bonnet

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Self-consistent continuum solvation (SCCS): The case of charged systems

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi

The recently developed self-consistent continuum solvation model (SCCS) [O. Andreussi, I. Dabo, and N. Marzari, J. Chem. Phys. 136, 064102 (2012)] is applied here to charged species in aqueous solutions. Describing ions in solution represents a great chall ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Revised self-consistent continuum solvation in electronic-structure calculations

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi

The solvation model proposed by Fattebert and Gygi [J. Comput. Chem. 23, 662 (2002)] and Scherlis et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 124, 074103 (2006)] is reformulated, overcoming some of the numerical limitations encountered and extending its range of applicability. ...

2012

Transport properties of room-temperature ionic liquids from classical molecular dynamics

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have attracted much attention in the scientific community in the past decade due their novel and highly customizable properties. Nonetheless, their high viscosities pose serious limitations to the use of RTILs in prac ...

Amer Inst Physics2012