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Spin excitations in nanographene-based antiferromagnetic spin-½ Heisenberg c...
Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains exhibit two distinct types of excitation spectra: gapped for integer-spin chains and gapless for half-integer-spin chains. However, in... -
Asymmetric molecular adsorption and regioselective bond cleavage on chiral Pd...
Homogenous enantioselective catalysis is nowadays the cornerstone in the manufacturing of enantiopure substances, but its technological implementation suffers from well-known... -
Preferential graphitic-nitrogen formation in pyridine-extended graphene nanor...
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), nanometer-wide strips of graphene, have garnered significant attention due to their tunable electronic and magnetic properties arising from quantum... -
Dramatic acceleration of the Hopf cyclization on gold(111): from enediynes to...
Hopf et al. first reported the high-temperature 6π-electrocyclization of cis-hexa-1,3-diene-5-yne to benzene in 1969. Subsequent studies using this cyclization have been limited... -
Tailoring magnetism of graphene nanoflakes via tip-controlled dehydrogenation
Atomically precise graphene nanoflakes called nanographenes have emerged as a promising platform to realize carbon magnetism. Their ground state spin configuration can be... -
On-surface cyclization of vinyl groups on poly-para-phenylene involving an un...
On-surface synthesis relies on carefully designed molecular precursors that are thermally activated to afford desired, covalently coupled architectures. In a recent publication,... -
Ambipolar charge transfer of larger fullerenes enabled by the modulated surfa...
A detailed understanding of how molecules interact with two-dimensional materials, particularly concerning energy level alignment and charge transfer processes, is essential to... -
On-surface interchain coupling and skeletal rearrangement of indenofluorene p...
On-surface synthesis serves as a powerful approach to construct π-conjugated carbon nanostructures that are not accessible by conventional wet chemistry. Nevertheless, this... -
Understanding the role of Hubbard corrections in the rhombohedral phase of Ba...
We present a first-principles study of the low-temperature rhombohedral phase of BaTiO₃ using Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory. By employing density-functional... -
Solids that are also liquids: elastic tensors of superionic materials
This work presents an application of the strain-fluctuation method, exploiting the fluctuations of the strain from extensive first-principles molecular dynamics simulations in... -
Transport signatures of temperature-induced chemical potential shift and Lifs...
Temperature-induced Lifshitz transitions have been identified in several materials. Their chemical potential shows a substantial shift with changing temperature. The common... -
Oxygen vacancies in strontium titanate: a DFT+DMFT study
We address the long-standing question of the nature of oxygen vacancies in strontium titanate, using a combination of density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory... -
Ab initio modeling of thermal transport through van der Waals materials
An advanced modeling approach is presented to shed light on the thermal transport properties of van der Waals materials (vdWMs) composed of single-layer transition metal... -
Interplay between polarization, strain and defect-pairs in Fe-doped SrMnO3-δ
Defect chemistry, strain, and structural, magnetic and electronic degrees of freedom constitute a rich space for the design of functional properties in transition metal oxides.... -
Simulating the ghost: quantum dynamics of the solvated electron
The nature of the bulk hydrated electron has been a challenge for both experiment and theory due to its short lifetime and high reactivity, and the need for a high-level of... -
Importance of surface oxygen vacancies for ultrafast hot carrier relaxation a...
Cu2O has appealing properties as an electrode for photo-electrochemical water splitting, yet its practical performance is severely limited by inefficient charge extraction at... -
On-surface synthesis of non-benzenoid nanographenes by oxidative ring-closure...
In this record we provide data supporting our recent results discussed in the fabrication of non-benzenoid nanographenes. Nanographenes (NGs) have gained increasing attention... -
Efficient Kr/Xe separation from triangular g-C3N4 nanopores: density-function...
Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is a promising material for molecular sieving membranes, thanks to its atom-thick ordered lattice with an extremely high density (1.6 × 10^14... -
HP - A code for the calculation of Hubbard parameters using density-functiona...
We introduce HP, an implementation of density-functional perturbation theory, designed to compute Hubbard parameters (on-site U and inter-site V) in the framework of DFT+U and... -
Even–odd conductance effect in graphene nanoribbons induced by edge functiona...
We theoretically investigate the electron transport in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) chemically functionalized with p-polyphenyl and polyacene groups of...