Peter Broqvist
Director at Department of Information Technology; Uppsala Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Computational Science
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- Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory; Structural Chemistry
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- +46 18 51 35 48
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- peter.broqvist@kemi.uu.se
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- Lägerhyddsvägen 1
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- Box 538
751 21 Uppsala
Short presentation
Research interests: Computational materials chemistry of inorganic materials and interfaces with applications in catalysis.

Publications
Selection of publications
Supercharged Low-Temperature Oxygen Storage Capacity of Ceria at the Nanoscale
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 604-608, 2013
Cu dimer formation mechanism on the ZnO(10(1)over-bar0) surface
Part of Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, p. 235302, 2012
Recent publications
The dynamics of plasmon-induced hot carrier creation in colloidal gold
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 2849-2858, 2025
- DOI for Investigation of charge transfer models on the evolution of phases in lithium iron phosphate batteries using phase-field simulations
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Decoupling Plasmonic Hot Carrier from Thermal Catalysis via Electrode Engineering
Part of Nano Letters, p. 8619-8625, 2024
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Impact of temperature on short-range charge ordering in LiFePO4/FePO4
Part of Physical Review B, 2024
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Exploring Metal Electroplating for Energy Storage by Quartz Crystal Microbalance: A Review
Part of ADVANCED SENSOR RESEARCH, 2024
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All publications
Articles in journal
The dynamics of plasmon-induced hot carrier creation in colloidal gold
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 2849-2858, 2025
- DOI for Investigation of charge transfer models on the evolution of phases in lithium iron phosphate batteries using phase-field simulations
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Decoupling Plasmonic Hot Carrier from Thermal Catalysis via Electrode Engineering
Part of Nano Letters, p. 8619-8625, 2024
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Impact of temperature on short-range charge ordering in LiFePO4/FePO4
Part of Physical Review B, 2024
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Part of Journal of Applied Physics, 2024
- DOI for First-principles calculations of defects and electron-phonon interactions: Seminal contributions of Audrius Alkauskas to the understanding of recombination processes
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Reactivity of Organosilicon Additives with Water in Li-ion Batteries
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 1654-1662, 2024
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Single-electron transfer reactions on surface-modified gold plasmons
Part of Materials Today Chemistry, 2023
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Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 6456-6465, 2023
- DOI for Role of Oxygen in Vacancy-Induced Phase Formation and Crystallization of Al2TiO5-Based Chemical Vapor-Deposited Coatings
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H2O2(s) and H2O22H2O(s) crystals compared with ices: DFT functional assessment and D3 analysis
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023
Fortnet, a software package for training Behler-Parrinello neural networks
Part of Computer Physics Communications, 2023
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Entrapped Molecule-Like Europium-Oxide Clusters in Zinc Oxide with Nearly Unaffected Host Structure
Part of Small, 2023
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Silyl-Functionalized Electrolyte Additives and Their Reactivity toward Lewis Bases in Li-Ion Cells
Part of Chemistry of Materials, p. 3831-3838, 2022
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Part of Phys. Rev. B, 2022
- DOI for Improving the transferability of density functional theory predictions through correlation analysis: Structural and energetic properties of $\mathrmNiX$ alloys $(X=\mathrmC, \mathrmSi, \mathrmGe, \mathrmand \mathrmSn)$
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Controlling the metal work function through atomic-scale surface engineering
Part of Applied Surface Science, 2022
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CCS: A software framework to generate two-body potentials using Curvature Constrained Splines
Part of Computer Physics Communications, 2021
Editorial: Interfacial Structures and Their Properties
Part of Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021
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Curvature Constrained Splines for DFTB Repulsive Potential Parametrization
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 1771-1781, 2021
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Phonon-Assisted Hot Carrier Generation in Plasmonic Semiconductor Systems
Part of Nano Letters, p. 1083-1089, 2021
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The water/ceria(111) interface: Computational overview and new structures
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020
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Part of ChemSusChem, p. 6574-6581, 2020
- DOI for Lignin Intermediates on Palladium: Insights into Keto-Enol Tautomerization from Theoretical Modelling
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Part of Phys. Rev. B, 2020
Fast, Low-Cost Synthesis of ZnO:Eu Nanosponges and the Nature of Ln Doping in ZnO
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 7584-7602, 2020
Simulated temperature programmed desorption experiments for calcined nanoceria powders
Part of Journal of Catalysis, p. 252-259, 2020
Initial Steps in PEO Decomposition on a Li Metal Electrode
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 22851-22857, 2019
Part of Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019
- DOI for Multiscale Modeling of Agglomerated Ceria Nanoparticles: Interface Stability and Oxygen Vacancy Formation
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From Ceria Clusters to Nanoparticles: Superoxides and Supercharging
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 1742-1750, 2019
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 584-594, 2019
Lignin intermediates on the Pd surface: Effect of coverage
Part of Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2018
Screened hybrid functionals applied to ceria: Effect of Fock exchange
Part of Physical Review B, 2018
Indirect-to-Direct Band Gap Transition of Si Nanosheets: Effect of Biaxial Strain
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 15297-15303, 2018
Dynamical and Structural Characterization of the Adsorption of Fluorinated Alkane Chains onto CeO2
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 23405-23413, 2018
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017
Self-Consistent-Charge Density-Functional Tight-Binding (SCC-DFTB) Parameters for Ceria in 0D to 3D
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 4593-4607, 2017
Comparing van der Waals DFT methods for water on NaCl(001) and MgO(001)
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017
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Subsurface hydrogen bonds at the polar Zn-terminated ZnO(0001) surface
Part of PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2016
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 29039-29046, 2016
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 23469-23479, 2016
Enhanced wetting of Cu on ZnO by migration of subsurface oxygen vacancies
Part of Nature Communications, 2015
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Water-Induced Oxidation and Dissociation of Small Cu Clusters on ZnO(101̅0)
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 1382-1390, 2015
ReaxFF Force-Field for Ceria Bulk, Surfaces, and Nanoparticles
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 13598-13609, 2015
Reactive oxygen species in stoichiometric ceria: Bulk and low-index surfaces
Part of Physica Status Solidi. Rapid Research Letters, p. 600-604, 2014
Formic Acid on TiO2-x (110): Dissociation, Motion, and Vacancy Healing
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 14876-14887, 2014
Large-scale SCC-DFTB calculations of reconstructed polar ZnO surfaces
Part of Surface Science, p. 50-61, 2014
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 6480-6490, 2014
Focus on Functional Oxides Preface
Part of Physica Status Solidi. Rapid Research Letters, p. 451-452, 2014
Supercharged Low-Temperature Oxygen Storage Capacity of Ceria at the Nanoscale
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 604-608, 2013
An SCC-DFTB Repulsive Potential for Various ZnO Polymorphs and the ZnO-Water System
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 17004-17015, 2013
Band-Filling Correction Method for Accurate Adsorption Energy Calculations: A Cu/ZnO Case Study
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 4673-4678, 2013
Cu dimer formation mechanism on the ZnO(10(1)over-bar0) surface
Part of Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, p. 235302, 2012
Phonon-assisted hot carrier generation in plasmonic semiconductor systems
Part of Nano letters (Print)
Accurate description of Ce 4f states in reduced ceria using SCC-DFTB+U simulations
Development of efficient linearly parametrized force fields for ionic materials
Articles, review/survey
Exploring Metal Electroplating for Energy Storage by Quartz Crystal Microbalance: A Review
Part of ADVANCED SENSOR RESEARCH, 2024
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Conference papers
Multiscale Modeling of Battery Materials
2019
A material chemistry tool for generating two body potentials
2019
Computational modelling of nanosystems
2019
Computational modelling of nanosystems
2019
2019
Chemistry of Complex Materials
2019
2019
2019
On the Importance of Dispersion in Electronic Structure Calculations of NanoAlloys
2019
Insights into reactive nanoparticles
2019
2019
Insights into reactive nanoparticles
2018
Chemistry of Complex Materials
2017
What the eyes cannot see: The chemistry of a catalyst
2017
Multiscale modelling of CeO2 nano-interfaces
2017
Can water affect the shape of CeO2 nanopartiles?
2017
Multiscale modelling: the spiral staircase from theory to experiment
2017
SCC-DFTB simulations of ceria surfaces and nanoparticles
2017
Ceria chemistry at the nanoscale: effect of the environment
Part of Solar Hydrogen And Nanotechnology Viii, 2013
Manuscripts (preprints)
Other
Hydrogen-Bond Relations for Surface OH Species
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 4849-4858, 2018