Software for evaluating long-range electrostatic interactions based on the Ewald summation and its application to electrochemical energy storage materials
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2022-07-28
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American Chemical Society
Abstract
Electrochemical characteristics such as open-circuit voltage and ionic conductivity of electrochemical energy storage materials are easily affected, typically negatively, by mobile ion/vacancy ordering. Ordered phases can be identified based on the lattice gas model and electrostatic energy screening. However, the evaluation of long-range electrostatic energy is not straightforward because of the conditional convergence. The Ewald method decomposes the electrostatic energy into a real space part and a reciprocal space part, achieving a fast convergence in each. Due to its high computational efficiency, Ewald-based techniques are widely used in analyzing characteristics of electrochemical energy storage materials. In this work, we present software not only integrating Ewald techniques for two-dimensional and three-dimensional periodic systems but also combining the Ewald method with the lattice matching algorithm and bond valence. It is aimed to become a useful tool for screening stable structures and interfaces and identifying the ionic transport channels of cation conductors.
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Energy, Electrostatics, Interfaces, Ions, Crystal lattices, Atoms, Energy storage, Electrochemical cells
Citation
Shi, W., He, B., Pu, B., Ren, Y., Avdeev, M., & Shi, S. (2022). Software for evaluating long-range electrostatic interactions based on the Ewald summation and its application to electrochemical energy storage material. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126(31), 5222-5230. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.2c02591