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Krupka KM, Krzemińska A, de Lara-Castells MP. A practical post-Hartree-Fock approach describing open-shell metal cluster-support interactions. Application to Cu 3 adsorption on benzene/coronene. RSC Adv 2024; 14:31348-31359. [PMID: 39359335 PMCID: PMC11446239 DOI: 10.1039/d4ra05401f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2024] [Accepted: 09/18/2024] [Indexed: 10/04/2024] Open
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Current advances in synthesizing and characterizing atomically precise monodisperse metal clusters (AMCs) at the subnanometer scale have opened up fascinating possibilities in designing new heterogeneous (photo)catalysts as well as functional interfaces between AMCs and biologically relevant molecules. Understanding the nature of AMC-support interactions at molecular-level is essential for optimizing (photo)catalysts performance and designing novel ones with improved properties. Møller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory (MP2) is one of the most cost-efficient single-reference post-Hartree-Fock wave-function-based theories that can be applied to AMC-support interactions considering adequate molecular models of the support, and thus complementing state-of-the-art dispersion-corrected density functional theory. However, the resulting AMC-support interaction is typically overestimated with the MP2 method and must be corrected. The coupled MP2 (MP2C) scheme replacing the uncoupled Hartree-Fock dispersion energy by a coupled dispersion contribution, has been proven to describe accurately van-der-Waals (vdW)-dominated interactions between closed-shell AMCs and carbon-based supports. In this work, the accuracy of a MP2C-based scheme is evaluated in modelling open-shell AMC-cluster interactions that imply charge transfer or other strong attractive energy contributions beyond vdW forces. For this purpose, we consider the interaction of Cu3 with molecular models of graphene of increasing size (benzene and coronene). In this way, it is shown that subchemical precision (within 0.1 kcal mol-1) is achieved with the modified MP2C scheme, using the explicitly correlated coupled cluster theory with single, double, and perturbative triple excitations [CCSD(T)-F12] as a benchmark method. It is also revealed that the energy difference between uncoupled and coupled dispersion terms closely follows benchmark values of the repulsive intramonomer correlation contribution. The proposed open-shell MP2C-based approach is expected to be of general applicability to open-shell atomic or molecular species interacting with coronene for regions of the potential landscape where single-reference electronic structure descriptions suffice.
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- Katarzyna M Krupka
- Institute of Fundamental Physics (AbinitSim Unit ABINITFOT Group), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Madrid Spain
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- Institute of Physics, Lodz University of Technology ul. Wolczanska 219 90-924 Lodz Poland
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- Institute of Fundamental Physics (AbinitSim Unit ABINITFOT Group), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Madrid Spain
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Fernández B, Pi M, de Lara-Castells MP. Superfluid helium droplet-mediated surface-deposition of neutral and charged silver atomic species. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023. [PMID: 37317779 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp01303k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Experimental and theoretical work has delivered evidence of the helium nanodroplet-mediated synthesis and soft-landing of metal nanoparticles, nanowires, clusters, and single atoms on solid supports. Recent experimental advances have allowed the formation of charged metal clusters into multiply charged helium nanodroplets. The impact of the charge of immersed metal species in helium nanodroplet-mediated surface deposition is proved by considering silver atoms and cations at zero-temperature graphene as the support. By combining high-level ab initio intermolecular interaction theory with a full quantum description of the superfluid helium nanodroplet motion, evidence is presented that the fundamental mechanism of soft-deposition is preserved in spite of the much stronger interaction of charged species with surfaces, with high-density fluctuations in the helium droplet playing an essential role in braking them. Corroboration is also presented that the soft-landing becomes favored as the helium nanodroplet size increases.
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- Berta Fernández
- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Departament FQA, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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John C, Swathi RS. An anisotropic dressed pairwise potential model for the adsorption of noble gases on boron nitride sheets. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:2554-2566. [PMID: 35024709 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04815e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Development of empirical potentials with accurate parameterization is indispensable while modeling large-scale systems. Herein, we report accurate parameterization of an anisotropic dressed pairwise potential model (PPM) for probing the adsorption of noble gases, He, Ne, Ar and Kr on boron nitride sheets. For the noble gas binding on B48N48H24, we carried out a least-squares fit analysis of the dispersion and dispersionless contributions of the interaction potential separately. The transferability of the parameters for a range of molecular model systems of boron nitride is further established. The dressed PPM is then used in conjunction with a global optimization technique, namely particle swarm optimization (PSO) to assess the possibility of performing large-scale simulations with the PPM-PSO methodology. The results obtained for the adsorption of 2-5 noble gases on BN sheets establish the proof-of-concept, encouraging the pursuit of large-scale simulations using the PPM-PSO approach.
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- Chris John
- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM), Thiruvananthapuram, India.
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM), Thiruvananthapuram, India.
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de Lara-Castells MP, Mitrushchenkov AO. Mini Review: Quantum Confinement of Atomic and Molecular Clusters in Carbon Nanotubes. Front Chem 2021; 9:796890. [PMID: 34957050 PMCID: PMC8704106 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.796890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We overview our recent developments on a computational approach addressing quantum confinement of light atomic and molecular clusters (made of atomic helium and molecular hydrogen) in carbon nanotubes. We outline a multi-scale first-principles approach, based on density functional theory (DFT)-based symmetry-adapted perturbation theory, allowing an accurate characterization of the dispersion-dominated particle–nanotube interaction. Next, we describe a wave-function-based method, allowing rigorous fully coupled quantum calculations of the pseudo-nuclear bound states. The approach is illustrated by showing the transition from molecular aggregation to quasi-one-dimensional condensed matter systems of molecular deuterium and hydrogen as well as atomic 4He, as case studies. Finally, we present a perspective on future-oriented mixed approaches combining, e.g., orbital-free helium density functional theory (He-DFT), machine-learning parameterizations, with wave-function-based descriptions.
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Zhang D, Yang X, Jiang W, Jin L, Gao Y, Wang Z. Pauli Repulsion Enhances Mobility of Ultraconfined Water. ACS NANO 2021; 15:2490-2496. [PMID: 33470792 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c06508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Water is ubiquitous on Earth and dominates chemical and biological processes in daily life. However, how water behaves under some critical conditions is not fully understood. In this paper, we employed quantum first-principles calculations and dynamics simulations to reveal the unexpectedly high mobility of water molecules in ultraconfined spaces. The water molecules rotated more freely in the (4, 4) carbon nanotube than in the (5, 5) carbon nanotube, which is induced by the Pauli repulsion from the wall of the narrower channel when reducing the size of the channel from general confinement to ultraconfinement. Moreover, this quantum effect facilitates the transport of water molecules into the space within their van der Waals diameter easily, which is in contrast to the general understanding. Thus, the conventional concept that the tighter the confined space, the more difficult the motion of the confined object is not always correct. This quantum-induced enhancement of water mobility by Pauli repulsion calls us to pay more attention to the existence and the function of water in neglected ultraconfined spaces (e.g., cells and the Earth's crust) in the future.
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- Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
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de Lara-Castells MP, Mitrushchenkov AO. A nuclear spin and spatial symmetry-adapted full quantum method for light particles inside carbon nanotubes: clusters of 3He, 4He, and para-H2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:7908-7918. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp05332e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A new nuclear spin and spatial symmetry-adapted full quantum method for light fermionic and bosonic particles under cylindrical carbon nanotube confinement.
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de Lara-Castells MP, Mitrushchenkov AO. From Molecular Aggregation to a One-Dimensional Quantum Crystal of Deuterium Inside a Carbon Nanotube of 1 nm Diameter. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:5081-5086. [PMID: 32513002 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The quantum motion of clusters of up to four deuterium molecules under confinement in a single-wall (1 nm diameter) carbon nanotube is investigated by applying a highly accurate full quantum treatment of the most relevant nuclear degrees of freedom and an ab initio-derived potential model of the underlying dispersion-dominated intermolecular interactions. The wave functions and energies are calculated using an ad hoc-developed discrete variable representation (DVR) numerical approach in internal coordinates, with the space grid approaching a few billion grid points. We unambiguously demonstrate the formation of a solid-like pyramidal one-dimensional chain structure of molecules under the cylindrical nanotube confinement. The onset of solid-like packing is explained by analyzing the potential minima landscape. The stabilization of collective rotational motion through "rigid rotations" of four deuterium molecules provides conclusive evidence for the onset of a quantum solid-like behavior resembling that of quantum rings featuring persistent current (charged particles) or persistent flow (neutral particles).
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New tools for the astrochemist: Multi-scale computational modelling and helium droplet-based spectroscopy. Phys Life Rev 2020; 32:95-98. [DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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de Lara-Castells MP, Mitrushchenkov AO. Spectroscopy of a rotating hydrogen molecule in carbon nanotubes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:3423-3430. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04109a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Computing the energy levels of molecular hydrogen rotating in carbon nanotubes of increasing size.
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de Lara-Castells MP, Mitrushchenkov AO. Ab initio modelling of molecular hydrogen rotation in the outside of carbon nanotubes. Mol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1555340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle, MSME UMR 8208, CNRS, UPEC, UPEM, Marne la Vallée, France
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Li Y, Jiao X, Du X, Wang F, Wei Q, Wen Y, Zhang X. Wettability alteration in a functional capillary tube for visual quantitative point of care testing. Analyst 2018; 143:3001-3005. [PMID: 29888353 DOI: 10.1039/c8an00735g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Capillarity is an extremely common physical-chemical phenomenon related to wettability in nature, which has wide theoretical and practical interest. Herein, we reported a facile sensing device based on capillary force change in a vertical capillary tube. In this height-based capillary sensor (HCS), the inner surface of the capillary tube was modified with a layer of molecules with wetting responsibility based on the well-known simple surface chemistry. With targets in different concentrations, the wettability of the surface modified with responsive molecules would produce different changes. The responsive surfaces would change the capillary force of the vertical capillary tube, and result in different column heights. Like a thermometer, H+ and phenol have been quantified visually based on the height of the liquid inside the capillary tube.
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- Yansheng Li
- Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
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Ancilotto F, Barranco M, Coppens F, Eloranta J, Halberstadt N, Hernando A, Mateo D, Pi M. Density functional theory of doped superfluid liquid helium and nanodroplets. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/0144235x.2017.1351672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Francesco Ancilotto
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia ‘Galileo Galilei’ and CNISM, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
- CNR-IOM Democritos, Trieste, Italy
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- Facultat de Física, Departament FQA, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Laboratoire des Collisions, Agrégats et Réactivité, IRSAMC, Université Toulouse 3 and CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
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- Laboratoire des Collisions, Agrégats et Réactivité, IRSAMC, Université Toulouse 3 and CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University at Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA
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- Laboratoire des Collisions, Agrégats et Réactivité, IRSAMC, Université Toulouse 3 and CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
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- Social Thermodynamics Applied Research (SThAR), EPFL Innovation Park, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Applied Complexity Group, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
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- Facultat de Física, Departament FQA, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Hauser AW, de Lara-Castells MP. Spatial quenching of a molecular charge-transfer process in a quantum fluid: the Cs x-C 60 reaction in superfluid helium nanodroplets. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:1342-1351. [PMID: 27975088 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp06858h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A recent experimental study [Renzler et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2016, 145, 181101] on superfluid helium nanodroplets reported different reactivities for Cs atoms and Cs2 dimers with C60 fullerenes inside helium droplets. Alkali metal atoms and clusters are heliophobic, therefore typically residing on the droplet surface, while fullerenes are fully immersed into the droplet. In this theoretical study, which combines standard methods of computational chemistry with orbital-free helium density functional theory, we show that the experimental findings can be interpreted in the light of a quenched electron-transfer reaction between the fullerene and the alkali dopant, which is additionally hindered by a reaction barrier stemming from the necessary extrusion of helium upon approach of the two reactants.
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- Andreas W Hauser
- Graz University of Technology, Institute of Experimental Physics, Petersgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria.
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de Lara-Castells MP, Hauser AW, Mitrushchenkov AO, Fernández-Perea R. Quantum confinement of molecular deuterium clusters in carbon nanotubes: ab initio evidence for hexagonal close packing. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:28621-28629. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp05869a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This study shows ab initio evidence for hexagonal close packing of D2 molecules in carbon nanotubes, with a = 3.6 Å and .
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- Institute of Experimental Physics
- Graz University of Technology
- A-8010 Graz
- Austria
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- Université Paris-Est
- Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle
- MSME UMR 8208 CNRS
- 77454 Marne-la-Vallée
- France
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