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10 Ways to Get the Energy and Other Properties

AMSjobs AMSlogfile AMSoutput KFbrowser PLAMS Scripting

Accurate XC functionals

ADF Fragments

ACE Reaction Network

MOPAC ACE reaction Reaction network Reaction discovery

Adsorption isotherm from Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo

ReaxFF Catalysis MOF Chemical potential GCMC

Adsorption Site Study on Pt(111)

ReaxFF Catalysis AMS Driver Adsorption Binding sites PES Exploration Surface Science

Analysis of NMR parameters with Localized Molecular Orbitals

ADF Spectroscopy Natural Bonding Orbitals (NBO) Natural Localized Molecular Orbitals (NLMO) Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)

Atomic Layer Etching of SiO\ :sub:`2`

ReaxFF Semiconductors Atomic layer etching Molecular Dynamics Molecule gun

Automated reaction pathway discovery for hydrohalogenation

DFTB Reaction discovery Transition state Potential Energy Surface (PES) PES Exploration AMS Driver

Band Structure and COOP

BAND Inorganic Chemistry Bonding Analysis COOP Crystal Perovskite

Band Structure and Effective Mass Tensors of Phosphorene

BAND Nanoscience Electronic band structure Band gap Effective mass

Bands, DOS, and the Fermi surface

BAND Heavy Elements DOS Fermi surface Spin-orbit coupling

Basis set superposition error (BSSE)

ADF Basis set Ghost atoms Fragments Double hybrids Counterpoise correction BSSE

Battery Cathodes: Intercalation Potential and Volume Change

MLPotential Batteries Cathode materials Intercalation potential Volume change

Benzene molecule in a magnetic field

BAND Magnetic field Vector field Magnetic current Streamlines

Binary Ionic Liquid Mixtures for CO\ :sub:`2` Absorption

COSMO-RS Ionic liquids Gas solubility VLE

Bond boost: Cross-linked polymers

ReaxFF Polymers Crosslinking Bond boost Accelerated MD

Building Crystals and Slabs

AMSinput Crystal Surface Building structures Space group Supercell Miller indices

Building Frameworks and Reticular Compounds

ForceField AMSinput Building structures MOF COF Zeolite Autografs UFF

Building Liquids and Gases

AMSinput Builder Liquid Gas Mixture Solid-liquid interface

Building Molecules

AMSinput Building structures SMILES Ligands Metal complexes Cluster Nanotubes

Building Polymers

ForceField Polymers Monomers AMSinput Building structures

Bumblebee: Device-level OLED Simulations

Bumblebee OLEDs

CD and CPL for spin-forbidden electronic transitions

ADF Spectroscopy Circularly polarized luminescence Spin-orbit coupling

Charge Displacement

ADF Bonding Analysis Charge displacement

Chemical Vapor Deposition

ReaxFF Semiconductors Materials Science Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) Molecule gun

ChemTraYzer2: Reactive MD Analysis

ReaxFF Oil & Gas Molecular Dynamics Combustion Reaction detection Reaction rate ChemTraYzer2

Closing the band gap of a 2D semiconductor with an electric field

BAND Semiconductors Electric field Vector field Band gap

Cluster Growth: Cobalt Clusters

ReaxFF Nanoscience Cluster growth Binding sites

Coformer Screening for Cocrystal Formation

COSMO-RS Biotechnology Pharma Cocrystal

Combustion simulation (DFTB)

DFTB Oil & Gas Combustion Molecular Dynamics Builder NHC Thermostat Molecule detection AMSmovie

Combustion simulation (ReaxFF)

ReaxFF Oil & Gas Builder Combustion Reaction network ChemTraYzer2 AMSmovie

Conformers

ADF DFTB ForceField Spectroscopy Conformer generation UFF Boltzmann weighted spectra

Core Ionization Potentials (XPS) of thiophene

ADF Spectroscopy XPS Excitations

COSMO result files

COSMO-RS ADF FastSigma

COSMO-RS with multi-species components

COSMO-RS Conformer Association

COSMO-RS: Fluid Thermodynamics

COSMO-RS

Crystals and Surfaces

BAND Quantum ESPRESSO DFTB Materials Science Crystal Surface Supercell AMSinput

CVHD: Bias for Rare Events

ReaxFF Oil & Gas Metadynamics Accelerated MD Biased MD Rare events Builder Bias deposition

Defect formation energy

BAND Quantum ESPRESSO Semiconductors Materials Science Defect formation energy Charged defects

Designing precursors for area-selective alumina deposition

DFTB MLPotential BAND Bonding Analysis Semiconductors Energy Decomposition Analysis

DFT + Hubbard U, PDOS

BAND DFT+U Hubbard-U Band gap pDOS

Diffusion coefficient

ReaxFF Batteries Diffusion coefficient Molecular Dynamics Simulated annealing

Electron and hole mobilities in organic electronics: charge transfer integrals

ADF OLEDs Photovoltaics OFETs Charge transfer integrals Electronic coupling Marcus theory Reorganization energy Hopping rate Effective mass tensor

Electronic transport in a 1D gold chain

BAND DFTB Inorganic Chemistry NEGF (Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function) Metal wire Lead Transmission function Current

Electronic transport in a carbon nanotube

BAND DFTB Organic electronics NEGF (Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function) Lead Transmission function Current

Energy Decomposition Analysis (EDA)

ADF Bonding Analysis Energy Decomposition Analysis

eReaxFF: Electron transfer in MD

ReaxFF Batteries Charge transfer eReaxFF ACKS2 Molecular Dynamics

Eu3+ Luminescence properties with Ligand Field DFT

ADF Spectroscopy Excitations Lanthanides XANES Luminescence Inorganic LEDs

Excipient Screening for Pharmaceutical Delivery

COSMO-RS Biotechnology Pharma Excipient Solubility Solvent optimization

Fragment Analysis in ADF

ADF Inorganic Chemistry Bonding Analysis Fragments AMSlevels

Fragment Orbitals in DFTB

DFTB Bonding Analysis Fragments AMSlevels

Fukui Functions and the Dual Descriptor

ADF Catalysis Fukui function Dual descriptor

Gate and Bias potentials

BAND NEGF (Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function) Metal wire Gate potential Bias potential Transmission function Current

Generating a batch of jobs and collecting results: Basis Set Effects for NH3 Geometry

ADF MOPAC Multiple jobs AMSjobs AMSprep AMSreport Basis set

Getting started: Geometry optimization of ethanol

ADF Building structures Geometry optimization Orbital Energy levels Electron density

Gibbs Free Energy in Heterogeneous Catalysis

ReaxFF Catalysis Adsorption Surface Science Phonons Thermodynamics

Glass transition temperature

ReaxFF Polymers Materials Science Simulated annealing Density Glass transition temperature

GUI modules

AMSinput AMSoutput AMSview AMSmovie AMSlevels AMSlogfile AMSspectra AMSdos KFbrowser AMSjobs

GUI tour: UV/Vis spectrum of ethene

ADF Spectroscopy AMSdos AMSinput AMSoutput AMSlevels AMSspectra AMSview Excitations

GW-BSE: the singlet-triplet (S\ :sub:`0`-T\ :sub:`1`) gap of Benzene

ADF Spectroscopy UV/Vis Excitations GW-BSE Quasi-particles

GW: Ionization Potential and Electron Affinity

ADF Spectroscopy GW Quasi-particles Ionization potential Electron affinity

H-NMR spectrum with spin-spin coupling

ADF Spectroscopy Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Nuclear spin-spin coupling constants (NSSCCs) Chemical shift SimIR

Interacting Quantum Atoms (IQA)

ADF Bonding Analysis Interacting Quantum Atoms

Ionic Conductivity

ForceField Batteries Amber95 Ionic conductivity Molecular Dynamics Aqueous solution

Ionic liquid with APPLE&P

ForceField Batteries APPLE&P Molecular Dynamics Density Builder Liquid NPT Viscosity

Ionic Liquids

COSMO-RS Ionic liquids Activity coefficient Henry’s law constant Gas solubility VLE

Kinetic Monte Carlo

AMSkinetics Zacros Kinetic Monte Carlo Zacros-post

L-Edge X-Ray spectrum NEXAFS

ADF Spectroscopy Excitations

Lattice Optimization and Phonons

DFTB Materials Science Lattice optimization Electronic band structure Phonons Phonon band structure Thermodynamics Crystal

M3GNet: Universal ML Potential

MLPotential M3GNet Cohesive energy Dispersion

Machine Learning CO Oxidation on Pt(111)

MLPotential Catalysis Surface Science CO oxidation Adsorption Nudged Elastic Band (NEB)

Machine Learning Thermochemistry

MLPotential Thermochemistry

Microkinetics: CO Oxidation

AMSkinetics Microkinetics MKMCXX Reaction rate Selectivity Reaction order Apparent activation energy Rate control Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) Isotopic switches CO oxidation

Mode Refinement

DFTB Spectroscopy Mode Refinement IR spectrum Normal modes AMS Driver UFF

Mode Tracking

DFTB Spectroscopy Mode Tracking IR spectrum Normal modes AMS Driver

Modeling phosphorescent lifetimes of OLED emitters

ADF OLEDs Phosphorescence

Multiple molecules multiple methods

ADF DFTB Multiple jobs Multiple molecules UV/Vis Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)

Multiscale modeling of OLED devices

ADF DFTB Organic electronics OLEDs Physical vapor deposition Thin-film morphologies Ionization potential Electron affinity

NEGF: Create a Molecular Junction

DFTB Organic electronics NEGF (Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function) Metal wire Gate potential Transmission function Current

NMR shifts with relativistic DFT

ADF Spectroscopy Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Relativistic DFT Spin-orbit coupling ZORA

Nudged Elastic Band (NEB)

DFTB Catalysis AMS Driver Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) Transition state Reaction barrier PLAMS

Overview: parameters and analysis

COSMO-RS AMSview Sigma profile COSMO-SAC COSMO surface

Overview: properties

COSMO-RS Activity coefficient Henry’s law constant VLE LLE Phase stability Vapor pressure Boiling point Flash point Solubility log P Solvent optimization Pure compound properties

Oxidation of water on a Pt(111) surface

BAND ADF Catalysis Batteries Oxidation potential

Parallel scalability of Elastic Tensor calculations

DFTB Materials Science AMS Driver Performance Driver level parallelism Double parallelism Load balancing Remote queues Elastic tensor

ParAMS Parametrization

ParAMS MLPotential DFTB ReaxFF

PEDA-NOCV - decomposing the orbital relaxation term

BAND Bonding Analysis Energy Decomposition Analysis

PEDA-NOCV for Spin Unrestricted Calculations

BAND Bonding Analysis Energy Decomposition Analysis Unrestricted

Periodic Energy Decomposition Analysis - PEDA

BAND Bonding Analysis Energy Decomposition Analysis

Periodic Energy Decomposition of the Tetrahydrofuran/Si(001) System

BAND Semiconductors Bonding Analysis Energy Decomposition Analysis PEDA Adsorption

PES Exploration: Water dissociation on an oxide surface

ReaxFF Catalysis Basin hopping Process search Transition state Adsorption AMS Driver PES Exploration

Phase-Change Memory: Amorphization and Recrystallization of GST

MLPotential Materials Science Molecular Dynamics Phase-change memory GST Crystallization Amorphization

Pitzer-Debye-Hückel electrostatic correction

COSMO-RS Batteries PDH correction

pKa values

COSMO-RS pKa Acid-base chemistry

Plasmon Enhanced Two Photon Absorption

ADF Spectroscopy DIM/QM PIM PLAMS

PolTDDFT: damped complex polarizabilities Au\ :sub:`12`

ADF Spectroscopy UV/Vis Excitations Absorption POLTDDFT

Polymers

COSMO-RS Polymers Activity coefficient Vapor pressure log P Gas solubility Flory-Huggins χ

Proton affinities with DFTB3

DFTB Proton affinity Acid-base chemistry

Python scripting with COSMO-RS using the PLAMS library

COSMO-RS PLAMS pyCRS

pyZacros Python Library

AMSkinetics Zacros Kinetic Monte Carlo PLAMS pyZacros

QM/FQ coupled to MD: UV/Vis absorption in aqueous solution

ADF Spectroscopy UV/Vis Excitations Molecular Dynamics QM/MM

QM/MM with polarizable force fields

ADF QM/MM DRF QM/FQ UV/Vis Excitations

QM/MM: Inorganic linker in organic framework

BAND DFTB Hybrid QM/MM QM/QM’ COF

QTAIM (Bader), localized orbitals and conceptual DFT

ADF Bonding Analysis Catalysis Bader analysis QTAIM Fukui function Dual descriptor

Quantum ESPRESSO: Calculating IR and Raman Spectra

Quantum ESPRESSO Spectroscopy Crystal IR spectrum PLAMS Raman

Quantum ESPRESSO: Geometry and Lattice Optimization

Quantum ESPRESSO Crystal

Quantum ESPRESSO: Magnetic Anisotropy Energy

Quantum ESPRESSO Materials Science Crystal Spin-orbit coupling Spin orientation Force Theorem

Quantum ESPRESSO: Magnetism, Band Structure and pDOS

Quantum ESPRESSO Materials Science Crystal Magnetism Electronic band structure Ferromagnetic pDOS Spin polarization

Quantum ESPRESSO: Phonon Band Structure, DOS, and Thermodynamics

Quantum ESPRESSO Materials Science Crystal Phonons DOS Thermodynamics

Reaction Boost (targeted MD): bond-making and breaking

MLPotential ReaxFF Accelerated MD Reaction boost

Reaction Boost (targeted MD): RMSD

MLPotential ForceField ParAMS Accelerated MD

Reactions Discovery

ReaxFF Reaction discovery

Relative energy gradient (REG) analysis along a PES Scan (1D)

ADF Bonding Analysis QTAIM Interacting Quantum Atoms Relative Energy Gradient

Resin Blend from Molecular Dynamics

ReaxFF Polymers Resin Molecular Dynamics Miscibility RDF UFF Tomography

Resonance Raman

ADF Spectroscopy Franck-Condon (VG-FC) Resonance Raman Excited states

Restart the DOS or band structure with BAND

BAND DOS Electronic band structure

ROKS-TDA-SOC

ADF Spectroscopy UV/Vis Excitations ROKS-TDA-SOC Spin-orbit coupling Unrestricted

Run Jobs from the Command Line

Command-line Terminal Shell script Run script Run file

Run Jobs with AI Agents: Codex and Claude Code

AI Agent Codex Claude Command-line Terminal

Run Jobs with Jupyter Notebooks

PLAMS Python Jupyter lab Jupyter notebooks Command-line

Run Jobs with Python Scripts

PLAMS Python Multiple jobs Multiple molecules

Silicon Gate Oxide Characterization with XPS

BAND Semiconductors Spectroscopy XPS

Simple (MD) Active Learning

MLPotential ParAMS M3GNet Active learning Molecular Dynamics

Solid-liquid interface

ReaxFF Materials Science Inorganic Chemistry Batteries Surface Adsorption Solid-liquid interface Region-dependent thermostats

Solvation beyond continuum solvation models: 3D-RISM

ADF Solvation RISM

Spin Coupling in Fe4S4 Cluster

ADF Unrestricted High-spin states Spin-flip Broken symmetry Spin density

Spin transport in Chromium wire

BAND NEGF (Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function) Metal wire Spin transport Transmission function Current

Stress-strain curve: Fracture point

ReaxFF Polymers Materials Science Mechanical properties Stress/strain

Surface deposition: Bouncing C₆₀

ReaxFF Graphene Surface Molecular Dynamics Molecule gun

TD-CDFT Response properties for a 2D periodic system (NewResponse)

BAND Spectroscopy Dielectric function Susceptibility Polarizability Refractive index TD-CDFT

TD-CDFT Response Properties For Crystals (OldResponse)

BAND Dielectric function Susceptibility Polarizability Refractive index TD-CDFT

TDDFT Study of 3 different Dihydroxyanthraquinones

ADF Spectroscopy UV/Vis TDDFT sTDDFT Canonical Molecular Orbitals (CMO) Natural Transition Orbitals (NTOs) Natural Bonding Orbitals (NBO) Solvation

The COSMO-RS compound database

COSMO-RS Compound database AMSview log P Henry’s law constant Activity coefficient Solubility LLE Solvation energy Vapor pressure COSMO-SAC Solvent optimization

Thermal conductivity from NEMD

ForceField Materials Science Thermal conductivity Post-MD analysis Region-dependent thermostats NEMD

Thermal expansion coefficient

ReaxFF Polymers Materials Science Simulated annealing Strain Thermal expansion coefficient

Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF)

ADF Spectroscopy Organic electronics OLEDs UV/Vis Vertical absorption Phosphorescence Intersystem crossing Spin-orbit coupling Marcus theory

Tips and Tricks for Transition State Searches for Click Reactions

ADF Catalysis Transition state Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) AMS Driver

TlH (thallium hydride) Spin-Orbit Coupling

ADF Heavy Elements Relativistic DFT Spin-orbit coupling Spinors Energy level splitting Spin magnetization Unrestricted Atomization energy

Transition state search and characterization of a Ziegler Natta Catalyst

DFTB ADF MOPAC Catalysis AMS Driver Transition state Potential Energy Surface Scan (PES scan) Initial Hessian Kinetics Statistical thermal analysis Free energy

Tribology: Friction and Lubrication of Hematite

ReaxFF Materials Science Tribology Friction Boundary lubrication Molecular Dynamics NEMD

Using the UNIFAC program

COSMO-RS UNIFAC Activity coefficient Vapor pressure Solubility VLE LLE

UV/Vis spectrum of Ir(ppy)3

DFTB Spectroscopy UV/Vis Excitations TD-DFTB

VASP: TiO₂ surface relaxation

VASP Surface

Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD)

ADF Spectroscopy Vibrational circular dichroism GCO Analysis VCDtools

Vibrational frequencies and IR spectrum of ethane

ADF Spectroscopy Geometry optimization Vibrational frequencies IR spectrum Normal modes

Vibrational progression of an OLED phosphorescent emitter

ADF Spectroscopy Organic electronics OLEDs UV/Vis Vertical absorption Phosphorescence Franck-Condon spectrum

Vibrationally resolved electronic spectra with ADF

ADF Spectroscopy Franck-Condon (VG-FC) Vibronic-Structure Tracking (VST) Excited states

Vibrationally resolved electronic spectra with DFTB

DFTB Spectroscopy Franck-Condon (VG-FC) Vibronic-Structure Tracking (VST) Excited states

Viscosity: Green-Kubo relation

ForceField Batteries Viscosity Pressure tensor autocorrelation function Post-MD analysis

Visualization of densities, orbital potentials, etc.

ADF AMSview Isosurface Contour lines Coulomb (electrostatic) potential

Voltage profile from Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo

ReaxFF Batteries Discharge voltage profile Chemical potential GCMC

Work functions at interfaces

BAND Work function Adsorption

Young’s modulus, yield point, Poisson’s ratio

ReaxFF Polymers Materials Science Mechanical properties Stress/strain Young’s modulus Yield points AMSmovie

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