Levente Vitos

Bio: Levente Vitos is an academic researcher from Royal Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ab initio & High entropy alloys. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 394 publications receiving 12950 citations. Previous affiliations of Levente Vitos include Uppsala University & Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Anisotropic Lattice Distortions in Random Alloys from First-Principles Theory

Abstract: Within the framework of the exact muffin-tin orbitals (EMTO) theory we have developed a new method to calculate the total energy for random substitutional alloys. The problem of disorder is treated within the coherent potential approximation (CPA), and the total energy is obtained using the full charge density (FCD) technique. The FCD-EMTO-CPA method is suitable for determination of energy changes due to anisotropic lattice distortions in random alloys. In particular, we calculate the elastic constants of the Cu-rich face centered cubic Cu-Zn alloys ( alpha-brass) and optimize the c/a ratio for the hexagonal Zn-rich alloys for both the epsilon and eta phases.

Total-energy method based on the exact muffin-tin orbitals theory

Abstract: I present a total-energy method based on the exact muffin-tin orbitals (EMTO) theory and the full charge density (FCD) technique. The FCD-EMTO method combines the accuracy of the full-potential method and the efficiency of the muffin-tin potential method. The one-electron Kohn-Sham equations are solved exactly for the overlapping muffin-tin potential and from the self-consistent solutions the full charge density is constructed. The EMTO kinetic energy, combined with the Coulomb and exchange-correlation terms calculated from the total density, yields the FCD-EMTO total energy. The accuracy of the FCD-EMTO method is demonstrated through several test calculations.

Anisotropic lattice distortions in random alloys from first-principles theory - art. no. 156401

Abstract: Within the framework of the exact muffin-tin orbitals EMTO) theory we have developed a new method to calculate the total energy for random substitutional alloys. The problem of disorder is treated within the coherent potential approximation (CPA), and the

I and i

Abstract: There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality. Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution

Abstract: The pace of materials discovery for heterogeneous catalysts and electrocatalysts could, in principle, be accelerated by the development of efficient computational screening methods. This would require an integrated approach, where the catalytic activity and stability of new materials are evaluated and where predictions are benchmarked by careful synthesis and experimental tests. In this contribution, we present a density functional theory-based, high-throughput screening scheme that successfully uses these strategies to identify a new electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The activity of over 700 binary surface alloys is evaluated theoretically; the stability of each alloy in electrochemical environments is also estimated. BiPt is found to have a predicted activity comparable to, or even better than, pure Pt, the archetypical HER catalyst. This alloy is synthesized and tested experimentally and shows improved HER performance compared with pure Pt, in agreement with the computational screening results.