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Linear ether-based highly concentrated electrolytes for Li–sulfur batteries

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,385-406
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00024B, Paper
Toru Ishikawa, Shohei Haga, Keisuke Shigenobu, Taku Sudoh, Seiji Tsuzuki, Wataru Shinoda, Kaoru Dokko, Masayoshi Watanabe, Kazuhide Ueno
Linear ether-based electrolytes show low solubility of the sulfur species, stability towards Li metal and polysulfide nucleophiles. Li–S cells using the lightweight electrolyte demonstrated an energy density exceeding 300 W h kg−1.
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Revisiting the driving force inducing phase separation in PEG–phosphate aqueous biphasic systems

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,181-192
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00058G, Paper
Open Access
Sophie Bonnassieux, Raj Pandya, Dhyllan Adan Skiba, Damien Degoulange, Dorothée Petit, Peter Seem, Russel P. Cowburn, Betar M. Gallant, Alexis Grimaud
We reinvestigated the PEG/K2HPO4/H2O systems using a combination of liquid-phase nuclear magnetic resonance and high-resolution Raman spectroscopies, coupled with injection microcalorimetry.
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Tailored carbon dioxide capacity in carboxylate-based ionic liquids

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,233-250
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00052H, Paper
Nicolas Scaglione, Jocasta Avila, Agilio Padua, Margarida Costa Gomes
Tetraalkylphosphonium carboxylate ionic liquids absorb large quantities of carbon dioxide and are easily regenerated.
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Ion transport in polymerized ionic liquids: a comparison of polycation and polyanion systems

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,426-440
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00070F, Paper
Open Access
Javad Jeddi, Jukka Niskanen, Benoît H. Lessard, Joshua Sangoro
Four model 1,2,3-triazole-based polyILs with polycation or polyanion backbones, are investigated to understand the impact of mobile ion types and backbone chemical structure.
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Exploring the structure of type V deep eutectic solvents by xenon NMR spectroscopy

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,118-128
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00083H, Paper
Open Access
Matteo Boventi, Michele Mauri, Franca Castiglione, Roberto Simonutti
Type V deep eutectic solvents thymol : camphor, menthol : thymol and eutectic mixtures based on menthol : carboxylic acids with variable chain length, are investigated to clarify the peculiar nanostructure of these materials..
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Spiers Memorial Lecture: From cold to hot, the structure and structural dynamics of dense ionic fluids

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,11-25
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00086B, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Matthew S. Emerson, Raphael Ogbodo, Claudio J. Margulis
This article presents a perspective on what we think are key topics related to the structure and structural dynamics of ILs and to some extent high-temperature molten salts.
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Speciation and dipole reorientation dynamics of glass-forming liquid electrolytes: Li[N(SO2CF3)2] mixtures of 1,3-propane sultone or tetrahydrothiophene-1,1-dioxide

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,42-54
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00050A, Paper
Yasuhiro Umebayashi, Erika Otani, Hikari Watanabe, Jihae Han
Li[(CF3SO2)2N] mixtures with propane sultone or sulfolane, newly termed as glass-forming liquid electrolytes, exhibited large-size aggregate (AGG) formation via speciation and dipole reorientation. The AGGs may be crucial for the unique Li+ conduction.
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Ionic fluids at equilibrium: thermodynamics, nanostructure, phase behaviour, activity: general discussion

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,289-313
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD90035A, Discussion
Andrew P. Abbott, Rob Atkin, Duncan W. Bruce, Paola Carbone, Giacomo Damilano, Robert A. W. Dryfe, Jean-Francois Dufrêche, Karen J. Edler, Y. K. Catherine Fung, Kateryna Goloviznina, Margarida Costa Gomes, Alexis Grimaud, Timothy S. Groves, Jennifer M. Hartley, John D. Holbrey, Christian Holm, Pierre Illien, Roland Kjellander, Alexei Kornyshev, Kevin R. J. Lovelock, Daniel M. Markiewitz, Joshua Maurer, Shurui Miao, Naoya Nishi, Beatriz Rocha de Moraes, Bernhard Roling, Benjamin Rotenberg, Joshua Sangoro, Nicolas Schaeffer, Monika Schönhoff, David J. Sconyers, John M. Slattery, Małgorzata Swadźba-Kwaśny, Adriaan van den Bruinhorst, Tom Welton
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New directions in experiment and theory, interfaces, and interactions: general discussion

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,493-509
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD90037E, Discussion
Rob Atkin, Duncan W. Bruce, Robert A. W. Dryfe, Emmanuelle Dubois, Karen J. Edler, Christopher E. Elgar, Andrew Feeney, Kateryna Goloviznina, Timothy S. Groves, Benworth Hansen, John D. Holbrey, Christian Holm, Alexei Kornyshev, Claudio J. Margulis, Daniel M. Markiewitz, Richard P. Matthews, Joshua Maurer, Shurui Miao, Frederik Philippi, Elixabete Rezabal, Bernhard Roling, Benjamin Rotenberg, Joshua Sangoro, Monika Schönhoff, John M. Slattery, Małgorzata Swadźba-Kwaśny, Neave Taylor, Masayoshi Watanabe, Jake Yang
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Structure and dynamics in dense ionic fluids: general discussion

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,146-180
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD90034K, Discussion
Andrew P. Abbott, Rob Atkin, Muhammad Dabai Bala, Stuart J. Brown, Duncan W. Bruce, Paola Carbone, Franca Castiglione, Margarida Costa Gomes, Jean-François Dufrêche, Karen J. Edler, Andrew Feeney, Kateryna Goloviznina, Juan Luis Gómez-Estévez, Timothy S. Groves, Benworth Hansen, Rachel Hendrikse, Christian Holm, Pierre Illien, Roland Kjellander, Alexei Kornyshev, Claudio J. Margulis, Joshua Maurer, Shurui Miao, Susan Perkin, Elixabete Rezabal, Beatriz Rocha de Moraes, Bernhard Roling, Benjamin Rotenberg, Joshua Sangoro, Nicolas Schaeffer, Monika Schönhoff, Karina Shimizu, John M. Slattery, Neave Taylor, Yasuhiro Umebayashi, Adriaan van den Bruinhorst, Masayoshi Watanabe, Fabian Zills
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Re-evaluating retrosynthesis algorithms with Syntheseus

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00093E, Paper
Krzysztof Maziarz, Austin Tripp, Guoqing Liu, Megan Stanley, Shufang Xie, Piotr Gaiński, Philipp Seidl, Marwin H. S. Segler
Syntheseus provides reference models and search algorithms as well as metrics to evaluate and improve synthesis planning tools.
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Spiers Memorial Lecture: New horizons in nanoelectrochemistry

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00159A, Paper
Open Access
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Oluwasegun Wahab, Lane A. Baker
This introductory lecture prefaces the 2024 New Horizons in Nanoelectrochemistry Faraday Discussion.
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Adsorption and vibrational spectroscopy of CO on the surface of MgO from periodic local coupled-cluster theory

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,628-640
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00041B, Paper
Open Access
Hong-Zhou Ye, Timothy C. Berkelbach
Local correlation allows accurate periodic CCSD(T) calculations to be efficiently performed for molecules on realistic surfaces with large basis sets, yielding accurate adsorption energies and vibrational frequencies.
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Gaussian processes for finite size extrapolation of many-body simulations

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,500-528
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00051J, Paper
Open Access
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Edgar Josué Landinez Borda, Kenneth O. Berard, Annette Lopez, Brenda Rubenstein
We employ Gaussian processes to more accurately and efficiently extrapolate many-body simulations to their thermodynamic limit.
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Accelerated basis-set convergence of coupled-cluster excitation energies using the density-based basis-set correction method

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,315-331
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00033A, Paper
Diata Traore, Julien Toulouse, Emmanuel Giner
We present the first application to real molecular systems of the recently proposed linear-response theory for the density-based basis-set correction method [J. Chem. Phys., 158, 234107 (2023)].
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Rapidly convergent quantum Monte Carlo using a Chebyshev projector

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,429-450
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00035H, Paper
Open Access
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Zijun Zhao, Maria-Andreea Filip, Alex J. W. Thom
We present a series of algorithmic changes that can be used to accelerate the MR-CCMC algorithm in particular and QMC algorithms in general.
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Fast and accurate nonadiabatic molecular dynamics enabled through variational interpolation of correlated electron wavefunctions

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,542-569
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00062E, Paper
Open Access
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Kemal Atalar, Yannic Rath, Rachel Crespo-Otero, George H. Booth
Efficient multi-state interpolation of many-body wavefunctions enables rigorous nonadiabatic molecular dynamics with analytical forces and nonadiabatic coupling vectors.
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Spiers Memorial Lecture: Quantum chemistry, classical heuristics, and quantum advantage

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,11-52
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00141A, Paper
Open Access
Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
We describe the problems of quantum chemistry, the intuition behind classical heuristic methods used to solve them, a conjectured form of the classical complexity of quantum chemistry problems, and the subsequent opportunities for quantum advantage.
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Tiled unitary product states for strongly correlated Hamiltonians

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,157-169
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00064A, Paper
Open Access
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Hugh G. A. Burton
Numerical results demonstrate that highly accurate energies can be achieved with a compact quantum-compatible ansatz for both weak and strong correlation in the Hubbard model, and the repulsive pairing Hamiltonian.
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Restoring translational symmetry in periodic all-orbital dynamical mean-field theory simulations

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,641-652
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00068D, Paper
Open Access
Jiachen Li, Tianyu Zhu
The use of overlapping atom-centered impurity fragments in recently-developed ab initio all-orbital DMFT, where all local orbitals within the impurity are treated with high-level quantum chemistry impurity solvers, is investigated.
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CO adsorption on Pt(111) studied by periodic coupled cluster theory

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,586-597
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00085D, Paper
Open Access
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Johanna P. Carbone, Andreas Irmler, Alejandro Gallo, Tobias Schäfer, William Z. Van Benschoten, James J. Shepherd, Andreas Grüneis
Application of periodic coupled-cluster theory for CO adsorption energies on the Pt(111) surface. The adsorption energy at the top site is mainly electrostatic, while at the fcc site it is correlation-based. This difference might account for the challenges DFT faces with the CO puzzle.
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Multi-reference coupled cluster theory using the normal ordered exponential ansatz

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,170-190
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00044G, Paper
Alexander D. Gunasekera, Nicholas Lee, David P. Tew
We examine Lindgren's normal-ordered exponential ansatz to correlate specific spin states using spin-free excitation operators, with the aid of automatic equation generation software.
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Stochastic and low-scaling techniques/extended systems: general discussion

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,570-585
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD90043J, Discussion
Ali Alavi, Kemal Atalar, Timothy C. Berkelbach, George H. Booth, Ji Chen, Don Danilov, Werner Dobrautz, Francesco A. Evangelista, Gaurav Harsha, Venkat Kapil, Ke Liao, Pierre-François Loos, Krishna Reddy Nandipati, Felix Plasser, Andrew W. Prentice, Markus Reiher, Brenda Rubenstein, Benjamin Xu Shi, Alex J. W. Thom, Zikuan Wang, Carlos Mejuto-Zaera, Dominika Zgid, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg
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Correlation in extended systems: general discussion

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 254,682-707
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD90044H, Discussion
Ali Alavi, Kemal Atalar, Timothy C. Berkelbach, George H. Booth, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Francesco A. Evangelista, Tamar Goldzak, Andreas Grüneis, Gaurav Harsha, Venkat Kapil, Peter Knowles, Marie-Bernadette Lepetit, Julia Liebert, Arman Nejad, Verena A. Neufeld, Trinidad Novoa, Katarzyna Pernal, Felix Plasser, Umatur Rehman, Benjamin X. Shi, David P. Tew, Zikuan Wang, Carlos Mejuto-Zaera, Dominika Zgid, Andrew Zhu, Tianyu Zhu, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg
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DNA TV Show: Terror threat in Delhi after Rohini blast? Police tighten security ahead of Diwali

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