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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

Complementary screening for quantum spin Hall insulators in two-dimensional exfoliable materials

Nicola Marzari, Davide Campi, Antimo Marrazzo, Davide Grassano

Quantum spin Hall insulators are a class of topological materials that has been extensively studied during the past decade. One of their distinctive features is the presence of a finite band gap in the bulk and gapless, topologically protected edge states ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Type-I antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal InMnTi2

Nicola Marzari, Luca Binci, Davide Grassano

Topological materials have been a main focus of studies in the past decade due to their protected properties that can be exploited for the fabrication of new devices. Among them, Weyl semimetals are a class of topological semimetals with nontrivial linear ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Phonon-limited resistivity of graphene by first-principles calculations: Electron-phonon interactions, strain-induced gauge field, and Boltzmann equation

Nicola Marzari, Thibault Daniel Pierre Sohier

We use first-principles calculations, at the density-functional-theory (DFT) and GW levels, to study both the electron-phonon interaction for acoustic phonons and the "synthetic" vector potential induced by a strain deformation (responsible for an effectiv ...

American Physical Society2014

Optimizing Ionic Conductivity of Lithium in Li7PS6 Argyrodite via Dopant Engineering

Nicola Marzari, Sokseiha Muy

Li-containing argyrodites represent a promising family of Li-ion conductors, with several derived compounds exhibiting room-temperature ionic conductivity >1 mS/cm, making them attractive as potential candidates for electrolytes in solid-state Li-ion batte ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Electrosorption at metal surfaces from first principles

Nicola Marzari

Electrosorption of solvated species at metal electrodes is a most fundamental class of processes in interfacial electrochemistry. Here, we use its sensitive dependence on the electric double layer to assess the performance of ab initio thermodynamics appro ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Self-consistent DFT

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni

Contradictory theoretical results for oxygen vacancies in SrTiO3 (STO) were often related to the peculiar properties of STO, which is a d(0) transition metal oxide with mixed ionic-covalent bonding. Here, we apply, for the first time, density functional th ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

First-Principles Prediction of the Equilibrium Shape of Nanoparticles Under Realistic Electrochemical Conditions

Nicola Marzari, Nicéphore Arthur François Bonnet

A first-principles model of the electrochemical double layer is applied to study surface energies and surface coverage under realistic electrochemical conditions and to determine the equilibrium shape of metal nanoparticles as a function of applied potenti ...

American Physical Society2013

Workflows in AiiDA: Engineering a high-throughput, event-based engine for robust and modular computational workflows

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Martin Uhrin, Sebastiaan Philippe Huber

Over the last two decades, the field of computational science has seen a dramatic shift towards incorporating high-throughput computation and big-data analysis as fundamental pillars of the scientific discovery process. This has necessitated the developmen ...

2020

Quantum ESPRESSO toward the exascale

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov

Quantum ESPRESSO is an open-source distribution of computer codes for quantum-mechanical materials modeling, based on density-functional theory, pseudopotentials, and plane waves, and renowned for its performance on a wide range of hardware architectures, ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Li4-xGe1-xPxO4, a Potential Solid-State Electrolyte for All-Oxide Microbatteries

Nicola Marzari, Leonid Kahle, Giuliana Materzanini

Solid-state electrolytes for Li-ion batteries are attracting growing interest as they allow building safer batteries, also using lithium-metal anodes. Here, we studied a compound in the lithium superionic conductor (LISICON) family, i.e., Li4-xGe1-xPxO4 (L ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Boltzmann Transport in Nanostructures as a Friction Effect

Nicola Marzari, Andrea Cepellotti

Surface scattering is the key limiting factor to thermal transport in dielectric crystals as the length scales are reduced or when temperature is lowered. To explain this phenomenon, it is commonly assumed that the mean free paths of heat carriers are boun ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Oxygen Evolution Reaction on La1-xSrxCoO3 Perovskites: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of Their Structural, Electronic, and Electrochemical Properties

Nicola Marzari

The bulk electronic structure, surface composition, conductivity, and electrochemical activity toward the oxygen evolution reaction for the La1-xSrxCoO3 perovskite series (with x = 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1) are investigated experimentally and theoretically ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Thermomechanical properties of honeycomb lattices from internal-coordinates potentials: the case of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride

Nicola Marzari, Francesco Libbi

Lattice dynamics in low-dimensional materials and, in particular, the quadratic behaviour of the flexural acoustic modes play a fundamental role in their thermomechanical properties. A first-principles evaluation of these can be very demanding, and can be ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Comprehensive Screening of Plasma-Facing Materials for Nuclear Fusion

Nicola Marzari, Paolo Ricci, Andrea Fedrigucci

Plasma-facing materials (PFMs) represent one of the most significant challenges for the design of future nuclear fusion reactors. Inside the reactor, the divertor will experience the harshest material environment: intense bombardment of neutrons and plasma ...

2024

Thermal Conductivity of Graphene and Graphite: Collective Excitations and Mean Free Paths

Nicola Marzari, Andrea Cepellotti, Giorgia Fugallo

We characterize the thermal conductivity of graphite, monolayer graphene, graphane, fluorographane, and bilayer graphene, solving exactly the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons, with phononphonon collision rates obtained from density functional pertu ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Piezoelectric softening by Nb substitution in (Ba,Pb)ZrO

Nava Setter, Nicola Marzari, Dragan Damjanovic, Alberto Biancoli

Donor doping is commonly applied for softening of the piezoelectric and dielectric properties and facilitation of polarization switching in the ubiquitous Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 [PZT] ceramics. The origin of the donor-dopant effects is not entirely clear. (Pb,Ba)ZrO ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Fermi energy determination for advanced smearing techniques

Nicola Marzari, Flaviano José Dos Santos

Smearing techniques are widely used in first-principles calculations of metallic and magnetic materials where they improve the accuracy of Brillouin-zone sampling and lessen the impact of level-crossing instabilities. Smearing introduces a fictitious elect ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Performance of arsenene and antimonene double-gate MOSFETs from first principles

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Marco Gibertini

In the race towards high-performance ultra-scaled devices, two-dimensional materials offer an alternative paradigm thanks to their atomic thickness suppressing short-channel effects. It is thus urgent to study the most promising candidates in realistic con ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Energy Level Alignment at the Cobalt Phosphate/Electrolyte Interface: Intrinsic Stability vs Interfacial Chemical Reactions in 5 V Lithium Ion Batteries

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni

The intrinsic stability of the 5 V LiCoPO4-LiCo2P3O10 thin-film (carbon-free) cathode material coated with MoO3 thin layer is studied using a comprehensive synchrotron electron spectroscopy in situ approach combined with firstprinciple calculations. The at ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022