Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Building an ab-initio potentiostat in a standard DFT code with periodic boundary conditions. ELRC2019 - IPAM reuniuon workshop, Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA (2019)
Todorova, M.; Yoo, S.-H.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: A fully ab initio approach to modelling electrochemical solid/liquid interfaces. Chemiekolloquium der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria (2019)
Surendralal, S.: Implementation of an ab initio electrochemical potentiostat: Application to Mg corrosion. Symposium "Fundamentals of the electrochemistry of the metal/electrolyte interface", Imperial College, London, UK (2019)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: First-principles approach to model electrochemical reactions at the solid-liquid interface. Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG 2019), Regensburg, Germany (2019)
Neugebauer, J.; Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.: Extending First-Principles Calculations to Model Electrochemical Reactions at the Solid-Liquid Interface. Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials X, Levi, Finnland (2019)
Todorova, M.; Yoo, S.-H.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Modelling electrochemical solid/liquid interfaces by first principles calculations. 19th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Material Science: Total Energy and Force Methods, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (2019)
Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Automated calculations for charged point defects in MgO and α-Fe2O3. DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2016, Regensburg, Germany (2016)
Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.; Finnis, M. W.; Neugebauer, J.: Effect of external electric fields on the Mg(0001)/H2O interface studied by empirical potentials using automated tools. The electrode potential in electrochemistry workshop - A challenge for electronic structure theory calculations, Castle Reisensburg (Ulm), Germany (2017)
Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Effect of external electric fields on the Mg(0001)/H2O. High electric Fields in Electrochemistry and in Atom Probe Tomography - Workshop, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany (2017)
Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: The Mg(0001)/H2O interface studied by empirical potentials and density functional. DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2017, Dresden, Germany (2017)
Surendralal, S.: Development of an ab initio computational potentiostat and its application to the study of Mg corrosion. Dissertation, Ruhr Universität Bochum (2020)
Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.: Automated Calculations for Charged Point Defects in Magnesium Oxide and Iron Oxides. Master, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GermanyRuhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2016)
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