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Overview

Alexey A. Sokol is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of materials science. Their research predominantly focuses on materials chemistry, with particular attention to the electronic and structural properties of oxides and catalytic processes in materials science.

The main fields of study for Alexey A. Sokol include:

  • Materials Science

Their subfields of study encompass:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
  • GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials
  • ZnO doping and properties
  • Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies

Alexey A. Sokol has published in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • APL Materials

Their recent research publications include:

  • Multiscale QM/MM modelling of catalytic systems with ChemShell, 2023, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Toward a Consistent Prediction of Defect Chemistry in CeO2, 2022, Chemistry of Materials
  • Influence of Solvent on Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides with Ammonia over Cu-CHA Zeolite, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Environment-Driven Variability in Absolute Band Edge Positions and Work Functions of Reduced Ceria, 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Insight into the Fergusonite-Scheelite Phase Transition of ABO4-Type Oxides by Density Functional Theory: A Case Study of the Subtleties of the Ground State of BiVO4, 2022, Chemistry of Materials

Throughout their career, Alexey A. Sokol has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • C. Richard A. Catlow
  • Thomas W. Keal
  • You Lü
  • Jingcheng Guan
  • Xingfan Zhang

Best Publications

  • Band alignment of rutile and anatase TiO2

    David O. Scanlon;Charles W. Dunnill;John Buckeridge;Stephen A. Shevlin

  • QUASI: A general purpose implementation of the QM/MM approach and its application to problems in catalysis

    Paul Sherwood;Alex H. de Vries;Martyn F. Guest;Georg Schreckenbach

  • ChemShell—a modular software package for QM/MM simulations

    Sebastian Metz;Johannes Kästner;Alexey A. Sokol;Thomas W. Keal

  • Anharmonicity in the High-Temperature Cmcm Phase of SnSe: Soft Modes and Three-Phonon Interactions.

    Jonathan M. Skelton;Lee A. Burton;Stephen C. Parker;Aron Walsh

  • Modelling nano-clusters and nucleation

    C. Richard A. Catlow;Stefan T. Bromley;Stefan T. Bromley;Said Hamad;Miguel Mora-Fonz

  • Why Are Polar Surfaces of ZnO Stable

    David Mora-Fonz;Tomas Lazauskas;Matthew R. Farrow;C. Richard A. Catlow;C. Richard A. Catlow

  • Oxidation states and ionicity

    Aron Walsh;Aron Walsh;Alexey A. Sokol;John Buckeridge;David O. Scanlon

  • Point defects in ZnO

    Alexey A. Sokol;Samuel A. French;Samuel A. French;Stefan T. Bromley;C. Richard A. Catlow

  • Advances in computational studies of energy materials

    C R A Catlow;Z X Guo;M Miskufova;S A Shevlin

  • From CO2 to Methanol by Hybrid QM/MM Embedding This work was supported by EU Esprit IV project 25047. S.A.F. is grateful to ICI and Synetix for funding. K. Waugh, L. Whitmore, S. Cristol, and P. Sushko are thanked for their helpful insights. QM/MM=quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics.

    Samuel A. French;Alexey A. Sokol;Stefan T. Bromley;C. Richard A. Catlow

  • From CO2 to methanol by hybrid QM/MM embedding

    Samuel A. French;Alexey A. Sokol;Stefan T. Bromley;C. Richard A. Catlow

  • Structures of Zinc Oxide Nanoclusters: As Found by Revolutionary Algorithm Techniques

    Abdullah A. Al-Sunaidi;Alexey A. Sokol;C. Richard A. Catlow;Scott M. Woodley

  • Polymorph Engineering of TiO2: Demonstrating How Absolute Reference Potentials Are Determined by Local Coordination

    John Buckeridge;Keith T. Butler;C. Richard A. Catlow;Andrew J. Logsdail

  • Deep vs shallow nature of oxygen vacancies and consequent n -type carrier concentrations in transparent conducting oxides

    J. Buckeridge;Charles Richard A. Catlow;M. R. Farrow;Andrew J. Logsdail

  • Hybrid QM/MM embedding approach for the treatment of localized surface states in ionic materials

    Alexey A. Sokol;Stefan T. Bromley;Samuel A. French;C. Richard A. Catlow

  • Zinc oxide: A case study in contemporary computational solid state chemistry

    C. Richard A. Catlow;Samuel A. French;Alexey A. Sokol;Abdullah A. Al-Sunaidi

  • Identification and Characterization of Active Sites and Their Catalytic Processes—the Cu/ZnO Methanol Catalyst

    S.A. French;A.A. Sokol;S.T. Bromley;S.T. Bromley;C.R.A. Catlow

  • Computational approaches to the determination of active site structures and reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysts

    C.R.A Catlow;S.A French;A.A Sokol;J.M Thomas;J.M Thomas

  • Strontium migration assisted by oxygen vacancies in SrTiO3 from classical and quantum mechanical simulations

    Aron Walsh;C. Richard A. Catlow;Alastair G. H. Smith;Alexey A. Sokol

  • Open-Source, Python-Based Redevelopment of the ChemShell Multiscale QM/MM Environment

    You Lu;Matthew R. Farrow;Pierre Fayon;Andrew J. Logsdail;Andrew J. Logsdail

  • Hole localization in [AlO4]0 defects in silica materials

    J To;A A Sokol;S A French;N Kaltsoyannis

Frequent Co-Authors

C. R. A. Catlow
C. R. A. Catlow University College London
Aron Walsh
Aron Walsh Imperial College London
Stefan T. Bromley
Stefan T. Bromley University of Barcelona
David O. Scanlon
David O. Scanlon University College London
Furio Corà
Furio Corà University College London
Ben Slater
Ben Slater University College London
Robert G. Bell
Robert G. Bell University College London
Richard I. Walton
Richard I. Walton University of Warwick
J. M. De Teresa
J. M. De Teresa University of Zaragoza
Martin R. Lees
Martin R. Lees University of Warwick

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