Research Interests
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Materials for energy and environmental applications (water splitting, fuel cell, CO2 conversion, secondary battery)
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Interfacial phenomenon on materials: spillover, kinetics, electrical double layer
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In-silico design of materials/high-throughput screening for discovery of novel materials
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Electrical, physical and chemical properties of materials
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Development of improved techniques for fundamental understanding on materials
Expertise
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Density Functional Theory: Vienna Ab-initio Software Package (VASP), Jaguar, jDFTx, CRYSTAL
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Classical/ReaxFF/Tersoff Molecular Dynamics: Large-scale Atomic Modeling Massively Parallelized Simulation (LAMMPS)
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Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC): Materials Studio, Cerius2
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Development of first-principles based force field for Molecular Dynamics/Monte Carlo simulations
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Development of methods for predicting the structures of solvated polymers
(‘Scaled Effective Solvent method’ is published in J. Phys. Chem. B 117, 916 (2013) and is now available in Materials Science Suite program of Schrödinger company)