Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry

Condensed matter chemistry - how a molecule's properties are affected by its surroundings.
Our research within Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry
In our research, we are mainly interested in the chemistry of condensed matter - especially how a molecule's properties are affected by its (often dynamic) environment in solution, in a crystal, or on a crystalline surface. Water and ionic solutions. Metal oxides: Defects, dynamics, surface active sites and heterogeneous catalysis. Calculation of vibration spectra in solid materials and solutions. Basic research: Intermolecular interaction.
We specialize in computational materials chemistry. The focus of the research carried out in the Teoroo group (Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry) at Uppsala University is e-science for material chemistry, that is, molecules + materials + chemistry + computers + software. We develop multiscale models and methods to bring simulations closer to the complex, large-scale dynamical problems of the real world, in areas such as catalysis, nanochemistry, and hydration phenomena. The methods used in the group include combinations of ab initio and semi-empirical quantum mechanical methods, advanced (reactive) force fields, MD simulations and computational vibrational spectroscopy. We explore and explain physical and chemical phenomena involving metal oxide surfaces and nanoparticles, both under high vacuum and in more realistic environments, such as aqueous media. Water and water solutions themselves are also of particular interest to the group.
Our latest conference

The eSSENCE-EMMC Meeting "Multiscale modelling of materials and molecules 2025"
Time: 11-13 June, 2025
Place: Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University

Group members
Publications
Water under hydrophobic confinement: entropy and diffusion
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 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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Part of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2025
- DOI for NiO-Ni2P/C3N4 heterostructures with synergistic adsorption-electrocatalysis functions for suppressing polysulfide shuttle effect in lithium sulfur batteries
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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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Part of ChemSusChem, 2025
- DOI for 7Li NMR Chemical Shifts in Battery-Relevant Electrolytes: Ligand-Induced Shifts Cancel in Both Experiment and Calculation
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Molecular dynamics simulations of the sputtering of boron and boron oxide surfaces
Part of RSC Advances, p. 34274-34281, 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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The dynamics of plasmon-induced hot carrier creation in colloidal gold
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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Part of Machine Learning, 2025
- DOI for Calculated solvation and ionization energies for thousands of organic molecules relevant to battery design
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The entropic origin of the enhancement of liquid diffusion close to a neutral confining surface
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024
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Part of Langmuir, p. 12009-12016, 2024
- DOI for Adsorption of Glycine on TiO2 in Water from On-the-fly Free-Energy Calculations and In Situ Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
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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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Predicting Ion Diffusion from the Shape of Potential Energy Landscapes
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 18-29, 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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Reducing training data needs with minimal multilevel machine learning (M3L)
Part of Machine Learning, 2024
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Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 13852-13859, 2024
- DOI for Effects of partial isovalent substitution of V with (Ti,Fe) on redox reactivity in Li2VO2F battery cathodes
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Part of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, p. 6216-6227, 2024
- DOI for The sensitive aspects of modelling polymer-ceramic composite solid-state electrolytes using molecular dynamics simulations
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Modelling interfacial ionic transport in Li2VO2F cathodes during battery operation
Part of Energy Advances, p. 2271-2279, 2024
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024
- DOI for A polarizable valence electron density based force field for high-energy interactions between atoms and molecules
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Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 1163-1172, 2024
- DOI for A Simple Electron-Density Based Force Field Model for High-Energy Interactions between Atoms and Molecules
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Part of Chemistry of Materials, p. 11359-11376, 2024
- DOI for Understanding Mobile Particles in Solid-State Materials: From the Perspective of Potential Energy Surfaces
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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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Exploring Metal Electroplating for Energy Storage by Quartz Crystal Microbalance: A Review
Part of ADVANCED SENSOR RESEARCH, 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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Origin of the Hydrophobic Behaviour of Hydrophilic CeO2
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023
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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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Single-electron transfer reactions on surface-modified gold plasmons
Part of Materials Today Chemistry, 2023
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Low-Temperature Cation Ordering in High Voltage Spinel Cathode Material
Part of ACS Applied Energy Materials, p. 5000-5008, 2023
Evolutionary Monte Carlo of QM Properties in Chemical Space: Electrolyte Design
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 8861-8870, 2023
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023
Water in Crystals: A Database for ML and a Knowledge Base for Vibrational Prediction
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 13740-13750, 2023
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Part of npj Computational Materials, 2023
- DOI for Machine learning force fields for molecular liquids: Ethylene Carbonate/Ethyl Methyl Carbonate binary solvent
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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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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023
- DOI for Water on ceria{111}: Comparison between 23 experimental vibrational studies in the literature and new modeling
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Fortnet, a software package for training Behler-Parrinello neural networks
Part of Computer Physics Communications, 2023
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A New Mars-van Krevelen Mechanism for CO Oxidation on a Ti-Decorated MXene
Part of Advanced Materials Interfaces, 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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Part of Advanced Energy Materials, 2022
- DOI for A Roadmap for Transforming Research to Invent the Batteries of the Future Designed within the European Large Scale Research Initiative BATTERY 2030+
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Part of Advanced Energy Materials, 2022
- DOI for Implications of the BATTERY 2030+ AI-Assisted Toolkit on Future Low-TRL Battery Discoveries and Chemistries
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Exploring High-Pressure Transformations in Low-Z (H2, Ne) Hydrates at Low Temperatures
Part of Crystals, 2022
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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 ACS Catalysis, p. 10472-10481, 2022
- DOI for Adsorption and Catalytic Oxidation of NO2 on Anatase TiO2: Concerted Nitrate Interaction and Photon-Stimulated Reaction
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Electrochemical Sodiation and Desodiation of Gallium
Part of Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2022
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Controlling the metal work function through atomic-scale surface engineering
Part of Applied Surface Science, 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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Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 7683-7694, 2022
- DOI for Predicting Frequency from the External Chemical Environment: OH Vibrations on Hydrated and Hydroxylated Surfaces
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CO oxidation on MXene (Mo2CS2) supported single-atom catalyst: A termolecular Eley-Rideal mechanism
Part of Chinese Chemical Letters, 2022
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021
- DOI for Supercooled liquid-like dynamics in water near a fully hydrated titania surface: Decoupling of rotational and translational diffusion
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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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Pressure-induced amorphization of noble gas clathrate hydrates
Part of Physical Review B, 2021
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Contact
- If you have any questions about our research, you are welcome to contact Prof. Kerst Hermansson.
- Kersti Hermansson