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Tada K, Kawakami T, Hinuma Y. Model calculations for the prediction of the diradical character of physisorbed molecules: p-benzyne/MgO and p-benzyne/SrO. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:29424-29436. [PMID: 37795574 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02988c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/06/2023]
Abstract
The analysis of the diradical state of functional open-shell molecules is important for understanding their physical properties and chemical reactivity. The diradical character is an important factor in the functional elucidation and design of open-shell molecules. In recent years, attempts have been made to immobilise functional open-shell molecules on surfaces to form devices. However, the influence of surface interactions on the diradical state remains unclear. In this study, the physisorption structures of p-benzyne, which is a typical diradical molecule, on MgO(001) and SrO(001) surfaces are used as models to investigate how the diradical character is affected by physisorption. This is done using approximate spin-projected density functional theory calculations with dispersion correction and plane-wave basis (AP-DFT-D3/plane-wave calculations). The diradical character change (Δy) due to adsorption can be categorised into three factors, namely the change due to the distortion of the diradical molecule (Δydis), the interaction between neighbouring diradical molecules (Δycoh), and molecule-surface interactions (Δysurf). In all the calculated models, physisorption reduced the diradical character (Δy < 0), and the contribution of Δysurf was the largest among the three factors. The calculated results show that adsorption induces electron delocalisation to π-conjugated orbitals and intramolecular charge polarisation, both of which contribute to reducing the occupancy of singly occupied molecular orbitals. This indicates that the diradical character of p-benzyne is reduced by the stabilisation of the resonance structures. Furthermore, geometry optimisation of the surfaces shows that the chemical-soft surface (SrO) varies the diradical character more significantly than the chemical-hard surface (MgO). This study shows that the open-shell electronic state and stack structure of diradical molecules can be controlled through the analysis of the surface diradical state.
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- Kohei Tada
- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy (RIECEN), Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan.
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- RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
- Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy (RIECEN), Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan.
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Sun JL, Dong MM, Niu Y, Li ZL, Zhang GP, Wang CK, Fu XX. Regulating the electronic properties of the WGe 2N 4 monolayer by adsorption of 4d transition metal atoms towards spintronic devices. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:26270-26277. [PMID: 37743842 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02686h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/26/2023]
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We study the regulation of the electronic and spin transport properties of the WGe2N4 monolayer by adsorbing 4d transition metal atoms (Y-Cd) using density functional theory combined with non-equilibrium Green's function. It is found that the adsorption of transition metal atoms (except Pd, Ag and Cd atoms) can introduce a magnetic moment into the WGe2N4 monolayer. Among the transition metal atoms, the adsorption of Nb and Rh atoms transforms WGe2N4 from a semiconductor to a half-metal and a highly spin-polarized semiconductor, respectively. The half-metallic Nb-adsorbed WGe2N4 system is selected to investigate the spin transport properties, and a high magnetoresistance ratio of 107% is achieved. In both parallel and antiparallel magnetization configurations, the spin filtering efficiency reaches close to 100% in the whole bias range, and the antiparallel magnetization configuration exhibits a dual spin filtering effect with a rectification ratio of up to 104. Our study predicts that the adsorption of 4d transition metal heteroatoms is an effective method to regulate the electronic and magnetic properties of WGe2N4 towards high-performance spintronic devices.
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- Jin-Lan Sun
- Shandong Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing & Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing & Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing & Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing & Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing & Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing & Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing & Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
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Tada K, Sakurai H, Kitta M, Yazawa K, Tanaka S. A comparative study of the photocatalytic and optical properties of spinel-type titanates: A report for spinel sodium titanate. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2021.122593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Tada K, Mori M, Tanaka S. Spin Contamination Errors in DFT+ U/Plane-wave Calculations for Li xFeF 3 Systems (x = 0–1). CHEM LETT 2021. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.210040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Kohei Tada
- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy, Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy, Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy, Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan
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Tada K, Kitagawa Y, Kawakami T, Okumura M, Tanaka S. Electron Density-based Estimation of Diradical Character: An Easy Scheme for DFT/Plane-wave Calculations. CHEM LETT 2021. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.200741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Kohei Tada
- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan
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- Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
- Riken Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB), Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8245, Japan
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan
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Tada K, Yamanaka S, Kawakami T, Kitagawa Y, Okumura M, Yamaguchi K, Tanaka S. Estimation of spin contamination errors in DFT/plane-wave calculations of solid materials using approximate spin projection scheme. Chem Phys Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2020.138291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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David G, Trinquier G, Malrieu JP. Consistent spin decontamination of broken-symmetry calculations of diradicals. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:194107. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0029201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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- Grégoire David
- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, IRSAMC-CNRS-UMR 5626, Université Paul-Sabatier (Toulouse III), 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, IRSAMC-CNRS-UMR 5626, Université Paul-Sabatier (Toulouse III), 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
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Tada K, Ozaki H, Kiyobayashi T, Kitta M, Tanaka S. How does the Li-distribution in the 16d sites determine the stability of A 3(Li,Ti 5)O 12 (A = Li and Na)? RSC Adv 2020; 10:33509-33516. [PMID: 35515046 PMCID: PMC9056721 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra06125e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Li3(Li,Ti5)O12 (LTO) is a stable and safe negative electrode material for Li-ion batteries, and its Na substitute Na3(Li,Ti5)O12 (NTO) is a counterpart for the Na-ion battery. In LTO and NTO, a sixth of the Ti-sites (16d) in the spinel framework are replaced by Li: Li mixing in the 16d sites. For conducting theoretical studies on these materials, e.g., density functional theory (DFT) calculations, one has to confront the astronomical number of combinations of Li distribution in 16d sites to construct model structures, of which the size is sufficiently large to represent the bulk material properties. Only a limited number of models, whose structures are a priori specified by “researcher intuition,” have been examined thus far, and how Li-mixing determines the material stability has yet to be clarified. Herein, we statistically analyzed the DFT total energy of more than 2 × 104 model structures of LTO and NTO that were extracted from the 4 × 108 possible combinations of Li-mixing with computer-aided symmetry analysis and an automated model building system. The local energy analysis further revealed the local stability/instability of each structure. We found that LTO and NTO stability can be well explained by the apparent coulombic repulsion between Li+ in the 16d sites as if they were placed in a matrix of dielectric constants of 1.92 and 2.04 for LTO and NTO, respectively. That is, the sum of the inverse of the Li–Li distance (S) serves as a good descriptor in predicting the stability of these materials. The extent to which the O2− anions are displaced from the Wyckoff position (32e) is considered to differentiate NTO from LTO. However, the electronic structure of NTO does not significantly differ from that of LTO unless S exceeds a certain limit. These results suggest that the spinel framework tolerates the structural instability and variety to some extent, which is important in constructing a spinel structure with the mixing of other cations, thereby replacing the rare element Li. Li3(Li,Ti5)O12 (LTO) is a stable and safe negative electrode material for Li-ion batteries, and its Na substitute Na3(Li,Ti5)O12 (NTO) is a counterpart for the Na-ion battery.![]()
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- Kohei Tada
- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy (RIECEN), Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-8-31 Midorigaoka Ikeda Osaka 563-8577 Japan
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy (RIECEN), Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-8-31 Midorigaoka Ikeda Osaka 563-8577 Japan
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy (RIECEN), Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-8-31 Midorigaoka Ikeda Osaka 563-8577 Japan
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy (RIECEN), Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-8-31 Midorigaoka Ikeda Osaka 563-8577 Japan
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy (RIECEN), Department of Energy and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-8-31 Midorigaoka Ikeda Osaka 563-8577 Japan
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