<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Hello,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">I was wondering if there were any plans on implementing the SCAN functional in future versions of QE?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">It appears to be a very good meta-GGA functional that yields surprisingly accurate results, especially for non-covalentnly bound structures and is therefore quite useful for calculations of supramolecular complexes.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Here is a link to the publication:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><a href="http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.036402">http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.036402</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div><br></div>The benefits of this functional were also highlighted in Nature Chemistry:<div><a href="http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v8/n9/abs/nchem.2535.html">http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v8/n9/abs/nchem.2535.html</a></div><div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1476177029117507072" class="bloop_sign"><div>— </div><div>Regards<br>Neven</div></div></div></body></html>