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Chen B, He K, Dai W, Gutsev GL, Lu C. Geometric and electronic diversity of metal doped boron clusters. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2023; 35:183002. [PMID: 36827740 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/acbf18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Being intermediate between small compounds and bulk materials, nanoparticles possess unique properties different from those of atoms, molecules, and bulk matter. In the past two decades, a combination of cluster structure prediction algorithms and experimental spectroscopy techniques was successfully used for exploration of the ground-state structures of pure and metal-doped boron clusters. The fruitfulness of this dual approach is well illustrated by the discovery of intriguing microstructures and unique physicochemical properties such as aromaticity and bond fluxionality for both boron and metal-doped boron clusters. Our review starts with an overview of geometrical configurations of pure boron clusters Bn, which are presented by planar, nanotube, bilayer, fullerene-like and core-shell structures, in a wide range ofnvalues. We consider next recent advances in studies of boron clusters doped with metal atoms paying close and thoughtful attention to modifications of geometric and electronic structures of pure boron clusters by heteroatoms. Finally, we discuss the possibility of constructing boron-based nanomaterials with specific functions from metal-boron clusters. Despite a variety of fruitful results obtained in numerous studies of boron clusters, the exploration of boron-based chemistry has not yet reached its peak. The intensive research continues in this area, and it should be expected that it brings exciting discoveries of intriguing new structures.
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- Bole Chen
- School of Science, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, People's Republic of China
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, Jingchu University of Technology, Hubei 448000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, United States of America
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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Li YY, Hu YF, Lai Q, Yuan YQ, Huang TX, Li QY, Huang HB. Inquiring into geometric structures and electronic properties of sodium doped boron clusters: DFT study of NaB n ( n = 1–12) clusters. Mol Phys 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2023.2166881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Yuan Yuan Li
- Department of Applied Physics, College of Mathematics and Physics, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China
- School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, People’s Republic of China
- Panzhihua Engineering Technology Research Center, College of Material Engineering, Panzhihua University, Panzhihua, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Physics, College of Mathematics and Physics, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China
- School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, People’s Republic of China
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- Panzhihua Engineering Technology Research Center, College of Material Engineering, Panzhihua University, Panzhihua, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Physics, College of Mathematics and Physics, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, People’s Republic of China
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Barroso J, Pan S, Merino G. Structural transformations in boron clusters induced by metal doping. Chem Soc Rev 2022; 51:1098-1123. [PMID: 35029622 DOI: 10.1039/d1cs00747e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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In the last decades, experimental techniques in conjunction with theoretical analyses have revealed the surprising structural diversity of boron clusters. Although the 2D to 3D transition thresholds are well-established, there is no certainty about the factors that determine the geometry adopted by these systems. The structural transformation induced by doping usually yields a minimum energy structure with a boron skeleton entirely different from that of the bare cluster. This review summarizes those clusters no larger than 40 boron atoms where one or two dopants show a radical transformation of the structure. Although the structures of these systems are not easy to predict, they often adopt familiar shapes such as umbrella-like, wheel, tubular, and cages in various cases.
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- Jorge Barroso
- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Mérida, km 6 Antigua carretera a Progreso, Apdo. Postal 73, Cordemex 97310, Mérida, Yuc., Mexico.
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Mérida, km 6 Antigua carretera a Progreso, Apdo. Postal 73, Cordemex 97310, Mérida, Yuc., Mexico.
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Mérida, km 6 Antigua carretera a Progreso, Apdo. Postal 73, Cordemex 97310, Mérida, Yuc., Mexico.
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Structural and electronic properties of neutral and anionic magnesium clusters doped with two barium atoms. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Duong LV, Si NT, Hung NP, Nguyen MT. The binary boron lithium clusters B 12Li n with n = 1-14: in search for hydrogen storage materials. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:24866-24877. [PMID: 34723314 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03682c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Molecular structures and properties of the binary clusters containing twelve boron atoms mixed with n lithium atoms, B12Lin with n = 1-14, were investigated using density functional theory with the TPSSh functional and the 6-311+G(d) basis set. Energetic parameters including relative energies, average binding energies and second-order energies of the entire series were predicted using the coupled-cluster theory (U)CCSD(T) in conjunction with the cc-pVTZ basis set. Several lowest-lying isomers were determined for each size B12Lin whose energies differ from each other by <3 kcal mol-1, except for n = 1, 2 and 4 (≤5 kcal mol-1), and particularly n = 8 (∼13 kcal mol-1). Electronic structure and chemical bonding in some specific sizes such as B12Li4, B12Li8 and B12Li14 were analyzed in detail. We established the electron shells of some magic clusters such as the B12Li4 cone for which we proposed a mixed cone-disk electron shell model. Thanks to both the phenomenological shell and Clemenger-Nilsson models, B12Li8 which contains a specific set of shells of 44 valence electrons is a high stability species. The arrangement of Li atoms around a fullerene B12 framework shows that the mixed B12Li8 emerges as the most suitable of this cluster series to adsorb molecular hydrogen. Up to 32 H2 molecules can strongly be attached to the B12Li8 cluster which is thus predicted to be a realistic candidate for hydrogen storage material with gravimetric density reaching up to a theoritical limit of 26 wt%. Attachment of the fifth H2 molecule to each Li atom of B12Li8 results in weaker average bonds but can give rise to a total of 40 H2 molecules, corresponding to 30 wt% of hydrogen.
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- Long Van Duong
- Institute for Computational Science and Technology (ICST), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. .,Department of Chemistry, Quy Nhon University, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
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- Department of Chemistry, Can Tho University, Can Tho, Vietnam
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- Department of Chemistry, Quy Nhon University, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
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- Institute for Computational Science and Technology (ICST), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. .,Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.
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Dong X, Chen C, Cui ZH. Tuning structural preference of negatively charged B16 by ionically or covalently interacting with alkali and coinage metals. Chem Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2021.111315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Srivastava R. Application of Optimization Algorithms in Clusters. Front Chem 2021; 9:637286. [PMID: 33777900 PMCID: PMC7994592 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.637286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The structural characterization of clusters or nanoparticles is essential to rationalize their size and composition-dependent properties. As experiments alone could not provide complete picture of cluster structures, so independent theoretical investigations are needed to find out a detail description of the geometric arrangement and corresponding properties of the clusters. The potential energy surfaces (PES) are explored to find several minima with an ultimate goal of locating the global minima (GM) for the clusters. Optimization algorithms, such as genetic algorithm (GA), basin hopping method and its variants, self-consistent basin-to-deformed-basin mapping, heuristic algorithm combined with the surface and interior operators (HA-SIO), fast annealing evolutionary algorithm (FAEA), random tunneling algorithm (RTA), and dynamic lattice searching (DLS) have been developed to solve the geometrical isomers in pure elemental clusters. Various model or empirical potentials (EPs) as Lennard-Jones (LJ), Born-Mayer, Gupta, Sutton-Chen, and Murrell-Mottram potentials are used to describe the bonding in different type of clusters. Due to existence of a large number of homotops in nanoalloys, genetic algorithm, basin-hopping algorithm, modified adaptive immune optimization algorithm (AIOA), evolutionary algorithm (EA), kick method and Knowledge Led Master Code (KLMC) are also used. In this review the optimization algorithms, computational techniques and accuracy of results obtained by using these mechanisms for different types of clusters will be discussed.
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Exploration of Free Energy Surface and Thermal Effects on Relative Population and Infrared Spectrum of the Be 6B 11- Flux-Ional Cluster. MATERIALS 2020; 14:ma14010112. [PMID: 33383889 PMCID: PMC7796227 DOI: 10.3390/ma14010112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The starting point to understanding cluster properties is the putative global minimum and all the nearby local energy minima; however, locating them is computationally expensive and difficult. The relative populations and spectroscopic properties that are a function of temperature can be approximately computed by employing statistical thermodynamics. Here, we investigate entropy-driven isomers distribution on Be6B11− clusters and the effect of temperature on their infrared spectroscopy and relative populations. We identify the vibration modes possessed by the cluster that significantly contribute to the zero-point energy. A couple of steps are considered for computing the temperature-dependent relative population: First, using a genetic algorithm coupled to density functional theory, we performed an extensive and systematic exploration of the potential/free energy surface of Be6B11− clusters to locate the putative global minimum and elucidate the low-energy structures. Second, the relative populations’ temperature effects are determined by considering the thermodynamic properties and Boltzmann factors. The temperature-dependent relative populations show that the entropies and temperature are essential for determining the global minimum. We compute the temperature-dependent total infrared spectra employing the Boltzmann factor weighted sums of each isomer’s infrared spectrum and find that at finite temperature, the total infrared spectrum is composed of an admixture of infrared spectra that corresponds to the spectra of the lowest-energy structure and its isomers located at higher energies. The methodology and results describe the thermal effects in the relative population and the infrared spectra.
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Shakerzadeh E, Duong LV, Pham-Ho MP, Tahmasebi E, Nguyen MT. The teetotum cluster Li 2FeB 14 and its possible use for constructing boron nanowires. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:15013-15021. [PMID: 32597424 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02046j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Systematic density functional theory (DFT) calculations using the TPSSh functional and the def2-TZVP basis set were carried out to identify the global energy minimum structure of the Li2FeB14 cluster. Keeping the double ring tubular shape of FeB14, capping of two Li atoms leads to a teetotum form at a low spin state, in which the Fe atom is endohedrally covered by two B7 strings, and both Li atoms are attached to Fe along the C7 axis at both sides. Calculated results show that strong electrostatic interactions between 2Li+ and Fe2- arising from Li electron transfer upon doping particularly provide a key driving force for stabilizing this charge-transfer structure. The bonding pattern of the teetotum can be understood from the hollow cylinder model (HCM). TD-DFT calculations demonstrate that this cluster can also be regarded as a useful material for transparent optoelectronic devices. Furthermore, the Li2FeB14 superatom can be used as a building block for making boron-based nanowires with metallic character. Replacement of Li atoms by Mg atoms was also found to lead to nanowires.
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- Ehsan Shakerzadeh
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Institute for Computational Science and Technology (ICST), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Quy Nhon University, Quy Nhon City, Vietnam
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- Institute for Computational Science and Technology (ICST), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Computational Chemistry Research Group, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. and Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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