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Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials with lower symmetry (triclinic, monoclinic or orthorhombic) exhibit intrinsic anisotropic in-plane structure desirable for future optoelectronic surface operating devices. Herein, we report…
State specific orbital optimized density functional theory (OO-DFT) methods like restricted open-shell Kohn-Sham (ROKS) can attain semiquantitative accuracy for predicting X-ray absorption spectra of closed-shell molecules. OO-DFT methods…
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