Publications by Matteo Cococcioni

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

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

Optimizing accuracy and efficacy in data-driven materials discovery for the solar production of hydrogen (vol 14, pg 2335, 2021)

Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni

Correction for 'Optimizing accuracy and efficacy in data-driven materials discovery for the solar production of hydrogen' by Yihuang Xiong et al., Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 2335-2348; DOI: 10.1039/D0EE02984J. ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

HP - A code for the calculation of Hubbard parameters using density-functional perturbation theory

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni

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 DFT+U+V. The code does not require the use of computationally expensive superce ...

ELSEVIER2022

Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Interactions in Correlated Electron Systems

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni, Andrea Floris

Electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions are pervasive in condensed matter, governing phenomena such as transport, superconductivity, charge-density waves, polarons, and metal-insulator transitions. First-principles approaches enable accurate calculations of e- ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Optimizing accuracy and efficacy in data-driven materials discovery for the solar production of hydrogen dagger

Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni

The production of hydrogen fuels, via water splitting, is of practical relevance for meeting global energy needs and mitigating the environmental consequences of fossil-fuel-based transportation. Water photoelectrolysis has been proposed as a viable approa ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Self-consistent Hubbard parameters from density-functional perturbation theory in the ultrasoft and projector-augmented wave formulations

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni

The self-consistent evaluation of Hubbard parameters using linear-response theory is crucial for quantitatively predictive calculations based on Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory. Here, we extend a recently introduced approach based on density-fu ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Hubbard-corrected density functional perturbation theory with ultrasoft pseudopotentials

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni, Andrea Floris

We present in full detail a newly developed formalism enabling density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) calculations from a DFT + U ground state. The implementation includes ultrasoft pseudopotentials and is valid for both insulating and metallic syst ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

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

Pulay forces in density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals: From nonorthogonalized to orthogonalized manifolds

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Luca Binci, Matteo Cococcioni, Francesco Aquilante

We present a derivation of the exact expression for Pulay forces in density-functional theory calculations augmented with extended Hubbard functionals and arising from the use of orthogonalized atomic orbitals as projectors for the Hubbard manifold. The de ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Electronic structure of pristine and Ni-substituted LaFeO3 from near edge x-ray absorption fine structure experiments and first-principles simulations

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni, Artur Braun, Xinyu Zhang, Daniele Passerone, Piyush Agrawal

We present a joint theoretical and experimental study of the oxygen K-edge spectra for LaFeO3 and homovalent Ni-substituted LaFeO3 (LaFe0.75Ni0.25O3), using first-principles simulations based on density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals a ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020