团簇的第一原理分子动力学计算研究：价键优选法

根据团簇价键结构的特点，结合第一原理分子动力学模拟，提出价键优选法；可以在有限的 计算量之下，得到其可计算的最大团簇体系Xm的性质，以及所有团簇Xi(i关键词： 价键优选法 团簇 第一原理分子动力学 Jahn_Teller效应 Rennet_Teller效应     

价键优选法及其在纳米结构预测与物性研究中的应用

本文论述价键优选法作为一种新颖的理论方法在材料结构预测与物性研究中的应用, 特别是在低维数纳米结构如团簇与纳米线研究中所展示的优势. 价键优选法以原子几何构型和电子云(主要是由费米能级附近的分子轨道组成, 即广义前线轨道)空间分布来合理决定纳米结构的稳定构型的选取. 本文以硅团簇为例说明价键优选法的特点, 以及锂、钠、铍、镁等金属团簇为例说明价键优选法在结构预测与材料 物性随尺寸演化规律研究中的应用, 以锂离子在MoS纳米线中的吸附为例说明价键优选法在储能材料离子传导研究中的应用, 最后总结价键优选法的进一步发展方向. 关键词： 价键优选法 团簇 纳米结构 离子传导     

铍小团簇的基态能量、结构及其拓扑性质

采用一种1988年得到的第一性原理多体势来描述团簇Be_n中原子之间的相互作用,用模拟自然生物进化的方法系统地优化计算了Be_n团簇(n=2—25)的基态能量和几何结构,分析了其拓扑性质,总结了能量和结构随原子数目的变化规律,并将得到的Be_n的结构和长程Morse势所描述的金属团簇M_n,以及Lennard-Jones势所描述的惰性气体团簇LJ_n的结构进行了比较分析.结果表明：在n=2—25的尺寸范围内 关键词：     

纳米铜团簇凝结规律的分子动力学研究

采用分子动力学方法对包含147，309和561个原子数的液态纳米铜团簇凝结过程进行模拟研 究，结果表明降温速率及团簇原子数对凝结得到常温下的固态团簇结构有重要影响：在模拟 时间内，降温速度越慢，团簇原子数越少，凝结得到铜团簇越倾向生成二十面体结构，反之 则倾向生成面心立方结构.同时探讨了该现象的物理机理. 关键词： 铜团簇 凝结 结构 分子动力学     

团簇异构体生长概率的理论预测

由于实验表征团簇结构的困难,理论预测团簇在生长过程中各种异构体的生成概率便十分重要.考虑到分子动力学可模拟高温时各异构体的相对丰度,把问题归结为高温时所形成的各种异构体在室温环境中如何转化,并建立了统计力学模型,得到了异构体相互演化所需时间与环境温度的解析关系.以C₁₂团簇为例,在2500 K时所形成的最可几异构体在室温环境中需要超过10¹²年才能转化为最低势能异构体. 关键词： 团簇 异构体 统计物理 分子动力学     

小尺寸铝纳米团簇的相变行为

采用分子动力学方法模拟了半径从0.3–1.3 nm变化的小尺寸铝纳米团簇的熔化、凝固行为. 基于势能-温度曲线、热容-温度曲线分析, 获得了熔点、凝固点与尺寸的依变关系, 并利用表面能理论、小尺寸效应开展了现象分析.研究表明, 铝团簇原子数小于80时, 熔点和凝固点的尺寸依赖性出现无规律的异常变化; 而大于该原子数, 熔、凝固点则随着团簇尺寸的减小而单调下降; 当原子数为27时, 团簇熔点高于块材熔点近40 K. 同时, 铝纳米团簇呈现出凝固滞后现象, 即凝固点低于熔点. 关键词： 纳米团簇 熔点 凝固点 分子动力学     

Ni掺杂对Cu团簇结构稳定性的影响

采用密度泛函理论对Cu_n和Cu_n-1Ni(n=3-14)团簇的结构及稳定性进行研究.结果证明Cu_n(n=3-14)团簇的基态不是密实结构而是类似双平面的构型;计算表明:Ni掺杂增加了铜团簇的稳定性,Cu_nNi(n=2-13)团簇的最稳态结构与单质铜团簇不同而是以形成二十面体为基础的密实结构,Ni原子趋于和尽量多的Cu原子成键而最终陷入笼状团簇的中心;偶数个粒子的团簇具有相对高的稳定性,尤其Cu₃Ni,Cu₇Ni和Cu₉Ni;陷入笼状团簇内部的Ni原子带正电,使得位于表面的Cu原子带负电,从而增加了由这种团簇构成的材料的化学稳定性,如耐腐蚀性等.     

ZnSe小团簇结构稳定性和电子性质研究

文章研究了小尺寸的(ZnSe)n团簇(n=2-16)的结构和电子性质.通过手工搭建得到团簇结构,用DMol软件包进行结构优化和能量计算,最后分析计算结果 .研究结果表明,对于n=2-4,平面环状结构的能量最低;对于n=5,非平面环状结构的能量最低;对于n=6-12,空心笼状结构的能量最低;对于n=13,核-壳笼状结构的能量最低;对于n=14-16,依旧是空心笼状结构的能量最低.通过分析(ZnSe)_n团簇(n=2-16)的电子性质,我们可以得到,(ZnSe)_9团簇、(ZnSe)_(12)团簇具有很好的稳定性.     

C36团簇自组装的分子动力学研究

提出了利用C36团簇在气相条件下自组装制备新纳米团簇的设想，并利用分子动力学方法模 拟了包括真实氦气氛作用的碳团簇生长过程，发现环境气体温度是影响最后所生成的团簇结 构的关键因素：C36团簇在1000?K到2000?K的温度范围内，自组装形成保持C36线径特征的 蚕茧状新纳米团簇；在高于2000?K的温度下，最后形成的团簇趋于球状. 关键词： 分子动力学模拟 纳米碳团簇     

Combined experimental and theoretical study of small aluminum oxygen clusters

We report a combined experimental and computational investigation of small Al_nO_m species (n ≤20, m ≤ 12), produced in a laser vaporization cluster source. The oxygen content in the clusters was tuned by varying the oxygen concentration in the carrier gas. Ionization energies are bracketed using different ionizing photon energies in the energy range between 5.37 and 7.89 eV. Among the singly doped Al_nO species, Al₃O and Al₁₅O are found to have relatively low ionization energies, which can be related to the magic character of the corresponding cations. Peculiarly low ionization energies also are observed for specific oxygen rich species (m > 1), suggesting the formation of ionically bound subunits. The structures and ionization energies of singly doped Al_nO^0,+ (n = 1 - 7) clusters were determined using density functional theory (B3LYP/6-311+G(d)). Electronic supplementary material Supplementary Online Material     

DFT study on the mechanism of trimolecular radical reactions: isomerisation in small clusters

ABSTRACT

Structural and thermodynamic properties of 48 trimolecular clusters containing one radicl and two protic molecules (H₂O, NH₃, H₂O₂, CH₃OH, HOCl) were studied at B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,3pd) level of theory. These radical-clusters have non-cyclic structures and are stabilised via two inter-molecular hydrogen bonding interactions. The calculated enthalpies of formation of the radical-clusters were generally in the range of ?30 to ?50 kJ/mol. The calculated activation energies (E_a) of the intra-cluster hydrogen transfers were smaller than 70 kJ/mol. Also, structures and thermodynamics of 15 cyclic molecular clusters as well as multi-hydrogen transfers in them were investigated. The results showed that the stability of the cyclic clusters and activation energies of the multi-hydrogen transfers depend on the cluster size.     

Optical properties of mixed clusters: comparative study of Ni/Ag and Pt/Ag clusters

The optical properties of mixed (Ni_0.5Ag_0.5)_n and Pt/Ag clusters are investigated in the size range 2-5 nm. Low Energy Ion Spectroscopy (LEIS) experiments show that the cluster surface is entirely covered by silver atoms for the two systems. The optical spectra of Ni/Ag clusters exhibit a large Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR), damped and widened when the cluster size decreases, in agreement with a classical model assuming a core-shell geometry and including the reduction of the conduction electron mean-free path in the silver shell. For Pt/Ag clusters, no SPR emerges in the size range 2-5 nm, although it is predicted within a classical model, a pronounced SPR appearing only for clusters larger than 10 nm in diameter.     

Cohesive properties of mercury clusters in the ground and excited states

Optimized structures and cohesive energies of small mercury clusters (Hg_N; N = 3–7, 13, 19) are calculated with the spin-orbit diatomics-in-molecules method. The theory takes into account the effect of s-p mixing which tends to enhance the binding energies in the ground state. It is shown that excimer clusters have significantly short optimum bond lengths and their atomic geometries differ considerably from those in the ground state. Excitation energy gap depends sensitively on both cluster size and nearest-neighbor separation. Numerical results are compared with other theories and experiments.     

Kinetics and equilibrium of small metallic clusters: Ab initio confinement molecular dynamics study of 4

The ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) [1] is combined with the heuristic, successive confinement method of surveying a potential energy surface (PES) [2], thereby offering a framework for the simulation study of kinetics and equilibrium properties of metallic clusters. This approach is applied to the study of Au₄, a cluster possessing a simple but specific PES, which consists of very shallow and deep basins and due to this presents a challenge to the conventional AIMD methods. Among other things, the probabilities of the transitions between isomers have been found, and on this basis, both the time-dependent and equilibrium populations of the isomers have been calculated for the conditions typical of the NeNePo experiments [3] in the femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy.     

Temperature and size dependence of the optical response of small Ag clusters

The absorption spectra of small Ag ⁺ n clusters are calculated at finite vibrational temperature by using a microscopic tight-binding RPA method. We consider free clusters with sizes between n = 3 and n =13 and take into account explicitly the degrees of freedom corresponding to the 4 d-electrons. We analyze the optical absorption as a function of the cluster size. We show that the contribution of the d-electrons has an important influence on the size dependence of the energy of the Mie plasmon. We also perform ensemble averages to obtain the absorption spectra for different vibrational temperatures. We obtain relatively good agreement with experiment for a temperature . The dynamics of the 4 d-electrons, which shows in small clusters an incipient delocalized character for n >7, yields an important contribution to the absorption spectrum already for n =13. We find that the strength of this contribution can be controlled by varying the vibrational temperature. Received: 4 January 1999 / Received in final form: 12 May 1999     

The internal energy of small ammonia clusters in a supersonic beam and after scattering off LiF(100)

The photoionization efficiency (PIE) of neutral ammonia clusters is studied as a function of photon energy. From these curves the internal energies of clusters in the incident supersonic beam and of clusters surviving after scattering off a LiF(100) surface are derived. A supersonic expansion of ammonia seeded in He produces small clusters of various size but with uniform kinetic energy of about 285 meV per monomer molecule. The mass distribution of clusters in the jet and of the scattered particles is measured in a reflecting time-of-flight mass spectrometer by single photon photoionization using vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser radiation tunable between and . In the incident beam the internal energies of clusters up to n = 15 do not vary significantly and amount to an average of about . After scattering off LiF(100) the internal energy of clusters up to n = 4 increases with fragment size and amounts to about half a monomer binding energy. Received 18 October 1999 and Received in final form 10 December 1999     

Non-monotonic size effects on the structure and thermodynamics of Coulomb clusters in three-dimensional harmonic traps

Finite-size effects on the static and thermodynamical properties of small three-dimensional clusters of identical charged particles confined by an harmonic trap are investigated using global optimization and numerical simulations. The relative stabilities of clusters containing up to 100 particles are estimated from the second energy derivatives, as well as from the energy gap between the two lowest-energy structures at a given size. We also provide a lower bound for the number of permutationally independent minima, as a function of size, up to n=75. Molecular dynamics and exchange Monte Carlo simulations are performed to get insight into the finite temperature behaviour of these clusters. By focusing on specific sizes, we illustrate the interplay between the stable structures, the possible competition between different isomers, and the melting point. In particular, we find that the orientational melting phenomenon known in two-dimensional clusters has an equivalent form in some three-dimensional clusters. The vibrational spectra, computed for all sizes up to 100, shows an increasing number of low-frequency modes, but comparing to hydrodynamical theory reveals strong correlation effects. Finally, we investigate the effects of the trap anisotropy on the general shape of Coulomb clusters, and on the melting point of a selected case.