HfSe2 monolayer stability tuning by strain and charge doping

Strain and charge doping are the effective ways to modulate the electronic and phonon properties of materials. The effects of biaxial tensile strains and charge dopings on the stabilities of HfSe₂ monolayer have been systematically investigated using first-principles methods. Its two-dimensional Young's modulus is only 65.4 N/m, and it is easy to be stretched. When the tensile strain is applied on HfSe₂ monolayer, two of its phonon modes soften with one frequency decreasing to zero at critical strain. Our results show that electron and hole dopings could suppress the softening of phonon modes, and significantly enhance the ideal strength by 28% and 36%, respectively. The calculations for electronic structures and phonon dispersions provide the theoretical references for future nano-device designing.     

Characterization of a Marshall-Olkin type class of distributions

Summary A class of bivariate distributions that generalize Marshall-Olkin's one is characterized through a functional equation which involves two associative operations. The obtained distributions concentrate positive mass on the linex=y when the two associative operations coincide; otherwise a positive mass is concentrated on a continuous monotone function. Work performed while the authors were members of CNR-GNAFA.     

双原子分子激发态势能的自旋相关局域Hartree-Fock密度泛函理论方法

基于自旋相关局域Hartree-Fock (SLHF)势函数,本文提出了一种计算双原子分子激发态势能的密度泛函理论(DFT)方法,并将该方法应用于和的激发态势能曲线的计算。在只考虑交换能的情况下,本文的DFT计算结果与文献中精确方法和Hartree-Fock (HF)方法的结果符合的非常好,说明采用SLHF势函数作为交换势的DFT方法是一个很好的计算激发态势能的方法。本文还计算和探讨了电子的关联势函数和关联能,发现传统的近似方法在较大核间距的情况下大大低估了电子的关联能.     

M2B7-(M=Mg,Zn)团簇的双重芳香性促进Mg-Mg和Zn-Zn单键的形成

本文使用密度泛函理论设计了两个无需配体的具有Mg-Mg和Zn-Zn单键的团簇Mg₂B₇^-和Zn₂B₇^-. 这两种团簇的全局能量最低构型均以M₂²⁺(B₇^3-)的形式存在,其中M-M单键处于准平面六边形形状的B₇部分的上方. 化学键分析证实了这些团簇中Mg-Mg和Zn-Zn单键的存在,这些单键是在异常稳定的B₇^3-的驱动下生成的. 该B₇^3-部分同时具有σ和π双重芳香性. 计算得到Mg₂B₇^-和Zn₂B₇^-的垂直跃迁能分别为2.79 eV和2.94 eV.     

An investigation of paddle wheel Cu2(μ2-O2CCH3)4 for gas molecule adsorptions

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have been well-known and extensively researched due to the high storage /good selectivity for gas molecules. Herein, the structures and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra for dicopper paddle wheel MOF compound (Cu₂(µ₂-O₂CCH₃)₄ with various gas molecule are theoretically investigated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The adsorption energies and isotherms (including pure gas molecules and the mixed ones) are calculated for the gas molecules interacting with the unsaturated Cu₂(µ₂-O₂CCH₃)₄. Both quantities exhibit the roughly consistent orders (e.g. H₂S?>?NH₃?>?CO₂?>?CO?>?H₂O?>?N₂?>?NO?>?H₂ for isotherms and H₂S?>?NH₃?>?N₂?>?CO₂?>?NO?>?H₂O?>?H₂?>?CO for adsorption energies), possibly suggesting that this material may act as a potential adsorbent of these gas molecules. The catalytic property of Cu₂(µ₂-O₂CCH₃)₄ for oxidation of CO and NO into non-toxic molecules and splitting of H₂O into H₂ and O₂ in the solvent condition are uniformly discussed. Simulation of Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) in MS 8.0 and calculations in Langmuir model reveal that Cu₂(µ₂-O₂CCH₃)₄ has good selectivity for CH₄ in natural gas (CH₄/CO₂/N₂) and SO₂ in fog (SO₂/NO/NO₂/H₂O/O₂), which would exhibit potential environmentally friendly applications.     

Highly efficient perovskite solar cells by tuning electronic structures of thienothiophene-based as hole transport materials

The atomic substitutions were used to study the hole transport materials (HTM) properties of six thiophenothiophene molecules (HTM1-HTM6) to reveal the relationship between their core structures and photoelectric properties. To better investigate the difference between experimentally original and designed molecules, we calculated the hole mobility and some parameters (such as energy levels, stability, and optical properties, etc). The results showed that the molecular orbital levels of the original and designed molecules have well matched with perovskite and Ag electrode to ensure hole transport and inhibit the electron reflux. Among the designed HTMs, HTM5 has the smallest energy gap that results in the red-shifted absorption spectra. Furthermore, there is an obviously increased charge transfer integral V due to the introduction of the Si atom, which greatly improved the hole mobility. Therefore, atom substitution by introducing Si atoms (HTM5) will improve the energy levels and charge transport ability, and molecular design by means of atom substitution can be a potential way to tunable HTM performance in solar cells.     

A giant enhancement of magnetic moment in a ternary three-shell icosahedral cluster: Fe@Mn12@Au20

ABSTRACT

The average magnetic moment per atom of Mn₁₃ cluster is expected to be enhanced by doping or coating with a shell. Several ternary core–shell icosahedral clusters TM@Mn₁₂@Au₂₀ were constructed by combining substituting the central Mn with VIII elements (Fe, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, Pd and Pt) and coating with a icosahedral Au₂₀ shell, and systematically studied by using the first-principles density functional method. Compared to Mn₁₃, Fe@Mn₁₂@Au₂₀ cluster shows a giant enhancement on total magnetic moment (52?µ_B) which can be greatly attributed to the ferromagnetic coupling between spin moments of atoms. Coating with Au₂₀ shell enlarged the average distances of TM-Mn and Mn-Mn and is a useful way to change the magnetic coupling style. By analysis of density of states and electron localisation functional, we can conclude that the weak hybridisation between Fe and Mn in Fe@Mn₁₂@Au₂₀ is propitious to maintain their original direction of spin moments of atoms and then form ferromagnetic coupling.     

Porphyrin-like porous nanomaterials as drug delivery systems for ibuprofen drug

In recent years, nanomaterial-based drug delivery carriers have become some of the most attractive to be studied. The purpose of this study is to investigate the interaction of C60 fullerene, carbon nanotube and graphene having porphyrin-like FeN4 clusters with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (ibuprofen) by means of the density functional theory. Results showed that the graphene with FeN4 clusters could remarkably increase the tendency of graphene for adsorption of ibuprofen drug. Also, our ultraviolet–visible results show that the electronic spectra of the complexes exhibit a blue shift toward lower wavelengths (higher energies). It was found that Ibp/FeN4-graphene had high chemical reactivity, which was important for binding of the drug onto the target site. In order to go further and gain insight into the binding features of considered systems with ibuprofen drug, the Atoms in Molecules analysis was performed. Our results determine the electrostatic features of the Ibp/FeN4-graphene bonding. Consequently, the results demonstrated that the FeN4-graphene could be used as potential carriers for the delivery of ibuprofen drug.     

A new study of associating inhomogeneous fluids with classical density functional theory

ABSTRACT

A new density functional for the study of associating inhomogeneous fluids based on Wertheim's first-order thermodynamic perturbation theory is presented and compared to the most currently used associating density functionals. This functional is developed using the weighted density approximation in the range of association of hard spheres. We implement this functional within the framework of classical density functional theory together with modified fundamental measure theory to account for volume exclusion of hard spheres. This approach is tested against molecular simulations from literature of pure associating hard spheres and mixtures of non-associationg and associating hard spheres with different number of bonding sites close to a hard uniform wall. Furthermore, we compare and review our results with the performance of associating functionals from literature, one based on fundamental measure theory and the inhomogeneous version of Wertheim's perturbation theory. Results obtained with classical DFT and the three functionals show excellent agreement with molecular simulations in systems with one hard wall. For the cases of small pores where only one or two layers of fluid are allowed discrepancies between results with classical DFT and molecular simulations were found.