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We investigate the exchange interaction of deprotonated retinoic acid molecules across hydrogen bonds.

The data is supplementary material for the paper, which includes all structures and binding energies calculated. Further, figures have been plotted with labels for all metals and porphyrine-like structures.

Dimethyl carbonate is an environmentally friendly precursor in various chemical reactions and is currently synthesized by hazardous processes. An electrocatalytic approach could result in a process abiding to the principles of Green Chemistry. Herein we demonstrate how density functional theory (DFT) calculations and experiment advance our understanding of electrocatalytic production of chemicals. Using density functional theory, we form design criteria for dimethyl carbonate electrosynthesis on metallic surfaces. The criteria are based on adsorption free energies of reactants and reaction energies of possible products. The design criteria allow us to identify copper as an interesting candidate for the electrode material as it is classified as being selective to dimethyl carbonate and requires ≈ 1 V lower potential than a gold electrode. By further addressing electrode stability copper was found to dissolve and produce copper-carbonyl species which lead to dimethyl carbonate as a consequence of a reaction in the solution, therefore not occurring by surface electrocatalysis. This shows that the design criteria presented herein are necessary but not sufficient requirements that the ideal electrode should satisfy.

We present atomic-scale structures of the Pt(111)/water interface, by calculating distributions of atomic distances as functions of pH. The structure of the Pt(111)/water interface is a particularly interesting model system in electro-catalysis for proton exchange reactions, especially the oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Further insight into such reactions requires accurate simulations of the electrolyte structure in the interface. The study displays many interesting details in the behaviour of the electrolyte structure, e.g. that the electrolyte structure average responds to the presence of protons by a H-down water orientation and that hexagonal adsorbed water layers are present only when they are anchored at the surface by HO*. New adsorbate configurations were also found at 5/12 ML coverage of HO*, suggesting an explanation for reported cyclic voltammetry experiments. The present study is a step towards a more complete understanding of the structure of the electrochemical interface on the atomic scale.

The data is supplementary material for the paper, which includes all structures, binding energies and energy ensembles. Further, plotting script is given to plot Figure 1 of the paper and the layout can be used to also achieve and plots other data from the database.

The data is supplementary material for the paper, which includes all structures and binding energies calculated. Further, experimental data together with plotting script for Figure 5 in the paper can be downloaded. 

The data is supplementary material for the paper, which includes all structures and binding energies calculated.

Accessing the Inaccessible: Analyzing the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in the Diffusion Limit

A numerical site-blocking model to simulate ORR currents in the absence of mass transport limitations.