SOFTWARE

Open packages we build and maintain, from the electronic structure of a surface through to a full electrolyte cell.

Reads a CatMAP microkinetic specification and produces the rate constants a simulation needs, via transition-state theory. It is one layer of a Julia stack: Catalyst.jl expresses the reaction networks, and LiquidElectrolytes.jl solves the coupled electrolyte transport.

  • Activation energies from explicit transition states, BEP scaling or a Butler–Volmer form
  • Free energies of formation with thermodynamic and surface-charge corrections
  • Computational hydrogen electrode and adsorbate interactions
  • Feeds Catalyst.jl and LiquidElectrolytes.jl

Modern electrode designs — porous materials, gas diffusion layers, solid electrolyte membranes — need kinetics and mass transport treated on an equal footing. CatINT provides the interface between the two, coupling CatMAP’s mean-field rate equations to COMSOL’s transport equations.

  • Mean-field microkinetics via CatMAP
  • Diffusion, migration and convection via COMSOL
  • Porous and gas-diffusion electrode geometries
  • Open source and under active development

A (size-modified) Poisson–Boltzmann implicit solvation module for the all-electron DFT package FHI-aims, so that the electrolyte — including the presence of salt — enters the electronic-structure calculation itself.

  • Size-modified Poisson–Boltzmann electrolyte model
  • Implicit solvation for all-electron DFT
  • Ion size and salt concentration effects
  • Transferable ionic parameters