Oligo(aromatic ether sulfone)-F as a Nonlinear Polarized Polymeric Material: an Experiment and DFT Study

Polymeric membranes with diverse structures have attracted much attention as new materials for nonlinear optical devices. In this report, a novel oligomer of poly(aromatic ether sulfone)(OAES) has been synthesized and characterized. The electronic structure as well as linear and nonlinear optical properties has been studied by density function theory. The effect for general nonlinear optical polarizability of various condition has been further researched such as absence of side chains and introduction of phenyl substituent on side chains. The static and frequency-dependent hyperpolarizabilities of OAES and its derivatives have been calculated. This work interprets an efficient adjustment for the frequency response and the intensity of nonlinear optical polarizability can be achieved by regulating the structure of system, which provides a new potential for the application of oligomeric materials on nonlinear optical field.     

一类五核平面开口型过渡金属原子簇电子吸收光谱和二阶非线性光学性质的TDDFT研究

运用TDDFT B3LYP/LanL2DZ方法, 研究了一类具有非中心对称的五核平面开口构型过渡金属原子簇化合物[MoS₄Cu₄(py)₆X₂] (X＝Br, I)的电子吸收光谱和静态二阶非线性极化率, 估算了晶体的宏观二阶非线性光学系数. 电子吸收光谱的计算结果与实验测量结果比较符合; 碘系簇合物的静态二阶非线性极化率大于溴系. 详细讨论了该类金属簇合物电子吸收光谱的归属及其相关联的电子跃迁方式; 在微观水平上阐述了其二阶非线性光学性质的起源. 研究结果表明外围无机卤素配体4p/5p轨道到簇芯[MoS₄]杂化轨道的电子转移对静态二阶非线性极化率的贡献大于有机配体的贡献; 而过渡金属簇芯内的电子转移也有较大的贡献. 这对于理解过渡金属原子簇化合物内的电子转移对光学激发的作用以及用来设计新的无机-有机杂化二阶非线性光学材料有较大的帮助.     

Thermoelectric Properties of the CuGaTe_2 Crystal from First-principles Calculations:the Role of Doping and Temperature

The thermoelectric properties of CuGaTe2 crystal are investigated by using the first-principles method and semi-classical Boltzmann theory. We find that the electronic structure of CuGaTe2 is favorable for p-type doping. The transport coefficients can be tuned by doping and changing the work temperature to yield an optimized thermoelectric performance. The optimal doping concentration is 2 × 1020 cm-3, in which the maximum ZT value can reach 1.65 at 900 K. The results suggest CuGaTe2 might find promising applications as good thermoelectric materials, particularly at high temperature.     

Theoretical Study of Hydrated Cd~（2＋） Interactions with Guanine

Theoretical study was performed to investigate how the hydration of cadmium ca-tion influences the structure and properties of guanine.The aqueous environment was simulated by both explicit solvent(1-5 water molecules) model and implicit solvent model.For complexes in which Cd2+ attached to the N(7) and O(6) sites of guanine,energy analysis together with the Natural Bonding Orbital(NBO) analysis were performed to elucidate the bonding characteristics in detail.The most stable structures are penta-coordinate complexes without aqua ligand located at the guanine site.Higher number of water ligands corresponds to higher stabilization energies.Average bonding energies of G-Cd increase with the number of water molecules.Bonding energies of water ligands depend on its position in the complexes.The charge distribution of guanine changed with increasing the number of water ligands,which may also influence the base-pairing pattern of guanine.There is positive charge transfer from guanine to aqua ligand as the number of the hydration waters increases.IEFPCM optimization has results comparable to the [CdG(H2O)5]2+ structure 5a.     

Ultra-incompressible Ternary Diborides Re_（0.5）Ir_（0.5）B_2,Re_（0.5）Tc_（0.5）B_2,Os_（0.5）W_（0.5）B_2 and Os_（0.5）Ru_（0.5）B_2：Density Functional Calculation

In this paper, density functional computations have been applied to the structural, elastic and electronic properties of ternary transition metal diborides Re0.5Ir0.5B2, Re0.5Tc0.5B2, Os0.5W0.5B2 and Os0.5Ru0.5B2 in hexagonal (P63/mmc) and orthorhombic (Pmmn) structures with both local density approximation and generalized gradient approximation. LDA gives smaller lattice parameters and larger elastic moduli than GGA. Both results show that the hexagonal ones are more stable than orthorhombic ones except Os0.5Ru0.5B2. Moreover, the hexagonal structure has superior elastic property than orthorhombic one. Generally speaking, the calculated elastic moduli of Re0.5Ir0.5B2 and Os0.5Ru0.5B2 are smaller than those values of Re0.5Tc0.5B2 and Os0.5W0.5B2 within the same structure because of the filling of antibonding states. The relativistic effects result in weaker bonds of Tc-B (Ru-B) than those of Re-B (Os-B). All the diborides are ultra-incompressible. Re0.5Tc0.5B2 has the largest shear modulus and it is a promising superhard diboride like Os0.5W0.5B2. The elastic properties are in high correlation with the bond strength. The shear moduli are more sensitive than the bulk moduli to the bond strength.