Publications de Giovanni Pizzi

Quantifying electronic and geometric effects on the activity of platinum catalysts for water-gas shift

The unique catalytic activity of small nanoparticles can be attributed to their distinctive electronic structure and/or their ability to expose sites with a unique geometry. Quantifying and distinguishing the contributions of these effects to catalytic per ...

2025

Autonomous Battery Optimization by Deploying Distributed Experiments and Simulations

Giovanni Pizzi, Francisco Fernando Ramirez

Non-trivial relationships link individual materials properties to device-level performance. Device optimization therefore calls for new automation approaches beyond the laboratory bench with tight integration of different research methods. This study demon ...

2024

Roadmap on methods and software for electronic structure based simulations in chemistry and materials

Giovanni Pizzi

This Roadmap article provides a succinct, comprehensive overview of the state of electronic structure (ES) methods and software for molecular and materials simulations. Seventeen distinct sections collect insights by 51 leading scientists in the field. Eac ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

A bridge between trust and control: computational workflows meet automated battery cycling

Nicola Marzari, Corsin Battaglia, Giovanni Pizzi, Sebastiaan Philippe Huber, Loris Ercole, Francisco Fernando Ramirez

Compliance with good research data management practices means trust in the integrity of the data, and it is achievable by full control of the data gathering process. In this work, we demonstrate tooling which bridges these two aspects, and illustrate its u ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Developments and applications of the OPTIMADE API for materials discovery, design, and data exchange

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Sara Bonella, Kristjan Eimre

The Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) application programming interface (API) empowers users with holistic access to a growing federation of databases, enhancing the accessibility and discoverability of materials and chemical data. ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Jupyter widgets and extensions for education and research in computational physics and chemistry

Giovanni Pizzi, Sara Bonella, Kristjan Eimre, Dou Du

Interactive notebooks are a precious tool for creating graphical user interfaces and teaching materials. Python and Jupyter are becoming increasingly popular in this context, with Jupyter widgets at the core of the interactive functionalities. However, whi ...

2024

OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science

Giovanni Pizzi, Sara Bonella, Dou Du

In this paper we present the Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research (OSSCAR) platform. OSSCAR provides an open collaborative environment to develop and access educational resources in the form of web applications, for which various deployment m ...

ELSEVIER2023

Automated mixing of maximally localized Wannier functions into target manifolds

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Junfeng Qiao

Maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) are widely used in electronic-structure calculations. We have recently developed automated approaches to generate MLWFs that represent natural tight-binding sets of atomic-like orbitals; these describe accurate ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Towards high-throughput many-body perturbation theory: efficient algorithms and automated workflows

Giovanni Pizzi, Antimo Marrazzo, Junfeng Qiao, Miki Bonacci, Andrea Ferretti

The automation of ab initio simulations is essential in view of performing high-throughput (HT) computational screenings oriented to the discovery of novel materials with desired physical properties. In this work, we propose algorithms and implementations ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Shared metadata for data-centric materials science

Giovanni Pizzi, Ronald Earle Miller, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Carsten Baldauf, Matthias Scheffler, Tristan Bereau

The expansive production of data in materials science, their widespread sharing and repurposing requires educated support and stewardship. In order to ensure that this need helps rather than hinders scientific work, the implementation of the FAIR-data prin ...

Nature Portfolio2023