Peter Broqvist
Director at Department of Information Technology; Uppsala Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Computational Science
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 62 74
- E-mail:
- peter.broqvist@uppmax.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Hus 10, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
Professor at Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory; Structural Chemistry
- Fax:
- +46 18 51 35 48
- E-mail:
- peter.broqvist@kemi.uu.se
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- Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- 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
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Supercharged Low-Temperature Oxygen Storage Capacity of Ceria at the Nanoscale
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 604-608, 2013
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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
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Beyond the surface: Investigating CO2 electroreduction pathways on copper foil
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2026
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H2 over Nanoceria: Microkinetic Simulation of a TPR Experiment
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 20922-20930, 2025
- DOI for H2 over Nanoceria: Microkinetic Simulation of a TPR Experiment
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Short-range charge ordering in Mn-doped LiFePO4
Part of Physical Review B, 2025
- DOI for Short-range charge ordering in Mn-doped LiFePO4
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Part of npj Computational Materials, 2025
- DOI for Navigating chemical design spaces for metal-ion batteries via machine-learning-guided phase-field simulations
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Size Does Not Matter, Attraction Does: A Computational Study of Doped LiNiO2
Part of Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2025
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Beyond the surface: Investigating CO2 electroreduction pathways on copper foil
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2026
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H2 over Nanoceria: Microkinetic Simulation of a TPR Experiment
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 20922-20930, 2025
- DOI for H2 over Nanoceria: Microkinetic Simulation of a TPR Experiment
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Short-range charge ordering in Mn-doped LiFePO4
Part of Physical Review B, 2025
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Part of npj Computational Materials, 2025
- DOI for Navigating chemical design spaces for metal-ion batteries via machine-learning-guided phase-field simulations
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Size Does Not Matter, Attraction Does: A Computational Study of Doped LiNiO2
Part of Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2025
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The dynamics of plasmon-induced hot carrier creation in colloidal gold
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
- DOI for The dynamics of plasmon-induced hot carrier creation in colloidal gold
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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
- DOI for Reactivity of Organosilicon Additives with Water in Li-ion Batteries
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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
- DOI for H2O2(s) and H2O22H2O(s) crystals compared with ices: DFT functional assessment and D3 analysis
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023
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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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Phonon-Assisted Hot Carrier Generation in Plasmonic Semiconductor Systems
Part of Nano Letters, p. 1083-1089, 2021
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CCS: A software framework to generate two-body potentials using Curvature Constrained Splines
Part of Computer Physics Communications, 2021
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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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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
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Fast, Low-Cost Synthesis of ZnO:Eu Nanosponges and the Nature of Ln Doping in ZnO
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 7584-7602, 2020
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Simulated temperature programmed desorption experiments for calcined nanoceria powders
Part of Journal of Catalysis, p. 252-259, 2020
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Initial Steps in PEO Decomposition on a Li Metal Electrode
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 22851-22857, 2019
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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
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Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 584-594, 2019
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Lignin intermediates on the Pd surface: Effect of coverage
Part of Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2018
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Screened hybrid functionals applied to ceria: Effect of Fock exchange
Part of Physical Review B, 2018
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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
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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
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017
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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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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
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Subsurface hydrogen bonds at the polar Zn-terminated ZnO(0001) surface
Part of PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2016
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Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 29039-29046, 2016
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Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 23469-23479, 2016
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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
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ReaxFF Force-Field for Ceria Bulk, Surfaces, and Nanoparticles
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 13598-13609, 2015
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Reactive oxygen species in stoichiometric ceria: Bulk and low-index surfaces
Part of Physica Status Solidi. Rapid Research Letters, p. 600-604, 2014
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Formic Acid on TiO2-x (110): Dissociation, Motion, and Vacancy Healing
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 14876-14887, 2014
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Large-scale SCC-DFTB calculations of reconstructed polar ZnO surfaces
Part of Surface Science, p. 50-61, 2014
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Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 6480-6490, 2014
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Focus on Functional Oxides Preface
Part of Physica Status Solidi. Rapid Research Letters, p. 451-452, 2014
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Supercharged Low-Temperature Oxygen Storage Capacity of Ceria at the Nanoscale
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 604-608, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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Phonon-assisted hot carrier generation in plasmonic semiconductor systems
Part of Nano letters (Print)
Articles, review/survey
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Exploring Metal Electroplating for Energy Storage by Quartz Crystal Microbalance: A Review
Part of ADVANCED SENSOR RESEARCH, 2024
- DOI for Exploring Metal Electroplating for Energy Storage by Quartz Crystal Microbalance: A Review
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Conference papers
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Multiscale Modeling of Battery Materials
2019
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A material chemistry tool for generating two body potentials
2019
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2019
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Computational modelling of nanosystems
2019
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Computational modelling of nanosystems
2019
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Chemistry of Complex Materials
2019
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2019
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Insights into reactive nanoparticles
2019
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2019
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2019
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On the Importance of Dispersion in Electronic Structure Calculations of NanoAlloys
2019
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Insights into reactive nanoparticles
2018
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Chemistry of Complex Materials
2017
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What the eyes cannot see: The chemistry of a catalyst
2017
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Multiscale modelling of CeO2 nano-interfaces
2017
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Can water affect the shape of CeO2 nanopartiles?
2017
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Multiscale modelling: the spiral staircase from theory to experiment
2017
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SCC-DFTB simulations of ceria surfaces and nanoparticles
2017
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Ceria chemistry at the nanoscale: effect of the environment
Part of Solar Hydrogen And Nanotechnology Viii, 2013
Manuscripts (preprints)
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Simulated temperature programmed reduction by H2 — a key to understanding OSC on nanoceria
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Accurate description of Ce 4f states in reduced ceria using SCC-DFTB+U simulations
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Development of efficient linearly parametrized force fields for ionic materials
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Stabilization of enol lignin models through surface alloying
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Deciphering the existence of hexagonal sodium zirconate CO2 sorbent
Other
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Hydrogen-Bond Relations for Surface OH Species
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 4849-4858, 2018