University of Namur

Hydrogen bonding: a double-edged sword in aqueous ammonium-ion batteries

Hydrogen bonding plays a double-edged role in ammonium-ion batteries, facilitating ion transport and flexible storage while inducing instability. Rational regulation of these interactions is crucial for achieving high-performance.

Bio-inspired decision making in robot swarms under biases

Abstract To operate autonomously, minimal robot swarms must make timely and reliable collective decisions despite noisy individual sensing and severe constraints on communication, computation, and memory. Achieving this capability could expand their use in applications such as he...

Deep learning-based prediction of self-energies from ab initio dynamical mean-field theory for real materials with minimal data sets

Abstract Density-functional theory (DFT) has been the workhorse of first-principles calculations for decades, and DFT-derived energies and forces are now widely used to train machine learning models of inter-atomic potentials. However, DFT’s single-particle treatment of exchange-...