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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Larry A. Curtiss is affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a specific focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Automotive Engineering, and Catalysis.

Their scholarly work covers topics such as Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Machine Learning in Materials Science, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, and Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications.

Recent publications by Larry A. Curtiss include:

  • A room temperature rechargeable Li 2 O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte, 2023, Science
  • 2D Copper Tetrahydroxyquinone Conductive Metal-Organic Framework for Selective CO2 Electrocatalysis at Low Overpotentials, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Beyond Local Solvation Structure: Nanometric Aggregates in Battery Electrolytes and Their Effect on Electrolyte Properties, 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • Oxide-Based Solid-State Batteries: A Perspective on Composite Cathode Architecture, 2022, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Asymmetric Composition of Ionic Aggregates and the Origin of High Correlated Transference Number in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Frequent co-authors associated with Curtiss are:

  • Anh T. Ngo
  • Rajeev S. Assary
  • Naveen K. Dandu
  • Amin Salehi-Khojin
  • Paul C. Redfern

Curtiss has regularly published in several scientific journals and venues including Advanced Energy Materials, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, and Faraday Discussions.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint

    Alan E. Reed;Larry A. Curtiss;Frank Weinhold

  • Gaussian-2 theory for molecular energies of first- and second-row compounds

    Larry A. Curtiss;Krishnan Raghavachari;Gary W. Trucks;John A. Pople

  • Gaussian-3 (G3) theory for molecules containing first and second-row atoms

    Larry A. Curtiss;Krishnan Raghavachari;Paul C. Redfern;Vitaly Rassolov

  • Assessment of Gaussian-2 and density functional theories for the computation of enthalpies of formation

    Larry A. Curtiss;Krishnan Raghavachari;Paul C. Redfern;John A. Pople

  • 6-31G* basis set for third-row atoms

    Vitaly A. Rassolov;Mark A. Ratner;John A. Pople;Paul C. Redfern

  • Gaussian-4 theory

    Larry A. Curtiss;Paul C. Redfern;Krishnan Raghavachari

  • GAUSSIAN-3 THEORY USING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL GEOMETRIES AND ZERO-POINT ENERGIES

    Anwar G. Baboul;Larry A. Curtiss;Paul C. Redfern;Krishnan Raghavachari

  • Gaussian‐1 theory: A general procedure for prediction of molecular energies

    John A. Pople;Martin Head‐Gordon;Douglas J. Fox;Krishnan Raghavachari

  • Gaussian-2 theory using reduced Moller--Plesset orders

    Larry A. Curtiss;Krishnan Raghavachari;John A. Pople

  • Gaussian-3 theory using reduced Mo/ller-Plesset order

    Larry A. Curtiss;Paul C. Redfern;Krishnan Raghavachari;Vitaly Rassolov

  • Compact contracted basis sets for third-row atoms: Ga-Kr

    C. Binning;L. A. Curtiss

  • Extension of Gaussian-2 (G2) theory to molecules containing third-row atoms K and Ca

    Jean-Philippe Blaudeau;Mark P. McGrath;Larry A. Curtiss;Leo Radom

  • Gaussian‐1 theory of molecular energies for second‐row compounds

    Larry A. Curtiss;Christopher Jones;Gary W. Trucks;Krishnan Raghavachari

  • Increased Silver Activity for Direct Propylene Epoxidation via Subnanometer Size Effects

    Y. Lei;Y. Lei;Faisal Mehmood;Sungsik Lee;Jeffrey P. Greeley

  • Gaussian-4 theory using reduced order perturbation theory.

    Larry A. Curtiss;Paul C. Redfern;Krishnan Raghavachari

  • Studies of molecular association in H2O and D2O vapors by measurement of thermal conductivity

    L. A. Curtiss;D. J. Frurip;M. Blander

  • Assessment of Gaussian-3 and density functional theories for a larger experimental test set

    Larry A. Curtiss;Krishnan Raghavachari;Paul C. Redfern;John A. Pople

  • Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction in ionic liquid.

    Mohammad Asadi;Kibum Kim;Kibum Kim;Cong Liu;Aditya Venkata Addepalli

  • Subnanometre platinum clusters as highly active and selective catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane.

    Stefan Vajda;Michael J. Pellin;Jeffrey P. Greeley;Christopher L. Marshall

  • Prediction of TiO2 nanoparticle phase and shape transitions controlled by surface chemistry.

    A. S. Barnard;L. A. Curtiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajeev S. Assary
Rajeev S. Assary Argonne National Laboratory
Paul C. Redfern
Paul C. Redfern Argonne National Laboratory
Peter Zapol
Peter Zapol Argonne National Laboratory
Khalil Amine
Khalil Amine Argonne National Laboratory
Jeffrey Greeley
Jeffrey Greeley Purdue University West Lafayette
Jun Lu
Jun Lu Zhejiang University
Peter C. Stair
Peter C. Stair Northwestern University
Zhengcheng Zhang
Zhengcheng Zhang Argonne National Laboratory
Stefan Vajda
Stefan Vajda Czech Academy of Sciences
John A. Pople
John A. Pople Stanford University

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