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Pascariu M, Bernasconi L, Krzystyniak M, Taylor J, Rudić S. Comprehensive Analysis of Methyl-β-D-ribofuranoside: A Multifaceted Spectroscopic and Theoretical Approach. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:2111-2120. [PMID: 38469744 PMCID: PMC10961842 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c00266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2024] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the vibrational spectra of methyl-β-D-ribofuranoside. Employing a combination of inelastic neutron scattering, Raman, and infrared spectroscopy allows for the observation of all modes regardless of the selection rules. The experimental techniques were complemented by density functional theory computational methods using both gas-phase (Gaussian) and solid-state (CRYSTAL, CASTEP) approaches to provide an unambiguous assignment of the defining vibrational features. Two distinct structures of the molecule were identified in the unit cell, differentiated mainly by the orientation of the furanose ring O-H bonds. The low-energy region of the spectrum (<400 cm-1) is dominated by lattice vibrations and functional group rotation, while the midenergy region is dominated by out-of-plane bending motions of the furanose ring (400-900 cm-1) and by C-H bending in the methyl and methylene groups (1400-1600 cm-1). The high-energy region (>2800 cm-1) encompasses the C-H and O-H stretching modes and offers convincing evidence of at least one H-bonding interaction between the two structures of methyl-β-D-ribofuranoside.
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- Matei Pascariu
- ISIS
Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K.
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of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K.
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- Center
for Research Computing & Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
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- ISIS
Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K.
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- ISIS
Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K.
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- ISIS
Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K.
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Keller KR, Rojas-Aedo R, Vanderhaegen A, Ludwig M, Brida D. High stability white light generation in water at multi-kilohertz repetition rates. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:38400-38408. [PMID: 38017947 DOI: 10.1364/oe.503172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
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An efficient supercontinuum (SC) generation featuring high spectral intensity across a large bandwidth requires high peak powers of several megawatts from pulsed lasers. Under these conditions and at multi-kilohertz (kHz) repetition rates, the SC generated in most materials is unstable due to thermal effects. In this work, we leverage the superior dispersion properties of water to maximize the spectral width of the SC, while avoiding stability issues due to thermal loading by means of a constant laminar flow of the liquid. This flow is controlled by a differential pressure scheme that allows to precisely adjust the fluid velocity to an optimum value for maximum stability of the SC. This approach is successfully implemented for repetition rates of 50 kHz and 100 kHz and two different pump wavelengths in the visible (VIS) and near infrared (NIR) spectral region with stability of the SC signal only limited by the driving pulses. The resulting water SC spans more than one octave covering the VIS to NIR range. Compared to established materials, such as yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) and sapphire, the spectral bandwidth is increased by 60% and 40% respectively. Our scheme has the potential to be implemented with other liquids such as bromine or carbon disulfide (CS2), which promise even wider broadening and operation up to the mid-infrared.
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Low PJ, Chu W, Nie Z, Bin Mohd Yusof MS, Prezhdo OV, Loh ZH. Observation of a transient intermediate in the ultrafast relaxation dynamics of the excess electron in strong-field-ionized liquid water. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7300. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34981-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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AbstractA unified picture of the electronic relaxation dynamics of ionized liquid water has remained elusive despite decades of study. Here, we employ sub-two-cycle visible to short-wave infrared pump-probe spectroscopy and ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations to reveal that the excess electron injected into the conduction band (CB) of ionized liquid water undergoes sequential relaxation to the hydrated electron s ground state via an intermediate state, identified as the elusive p excited state. The measured CB and p-electron lifetimes are 0.26 ± 0.02 ps and 62 ± 10 fs, respectively. Ab initio quantum dynamics yield similar lifetimes and furthermore reveal vibrational modes that participate in the different stages of electronic relaxation, with initial relaxation within the dense CB manifold coupled to hindered translational motions whereas subsequent p-to-s relaxation facilitated by librational and even intramolecular bending modes of water. Finally, energetic considerations suggest that a hitherto unobserved trap state resides ~0.3-eV below the CB edge of liquid water. Our results provide a detailed atomistic picture of the electronic relaxation dynamics of ionized liquid water with unprecedented time resolution.
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Antony AC, Goyal S, Park H, Banerjee J, Smith NJ, Agnello G, Manley RG. Passivation of Mid-Gap Electronic States at Calcium Aluminosilicate Glass Surfaces upon Water Exposure: An Ab Initio Study. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:7709-7719. [PMID: 36149757 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c02550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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When a clean glass surface is exposed to humid air, a thin water layer forms on the hydrophilic surface. Using ab initio molecular dynamics, we simulate the changes in the electronic structure of a CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 glass model upon vacuum fracture and subsequent exposure to H2O. When the glass is fractured, dangling bonds form, which lower the band gap of the surface by ∼1.8 eV compared to the bulk value due to mid-gap surface states. When H2O adsorbs onto the vacuum-fractured surface, the band gap increases to a value closer to that of the bulk band gap. Using two different hydroxylation methods, we find that the calculated band gap of the glass surface depends on the hydroxylation state. Surfaces with ∼4.5 OH/nm2 have smaller band gaps due to unfilled surface states, and surfaces with ∼2.5 OH/nm2 have larger band gaps with no apparent unfilled surface states. The resulting changes in the electronic structure, quantified by electron affinity and work function values, are hypothesized to play an important role in the electrostatic charge transfer based on the principles of surface state theory, which posit that the density of electronic surface states determines the amount of electronic charge transfer to or from material surfaces.
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- Andrew C Antony
- Corning Incorporated, Sullivan Park Research Center, Corning, New York 14831, United States
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- Corning Incorporated, Sullivan Park Research Center, Corning, New York 14831, United States
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- Corning Technology Center Korea, Asan, Chungcheongnam-do 31454, South Korea
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- Corning Research and Development Corporation, Sullivan Park Research Center, Corning, New York 14831, United States
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- Corning Research and Development Corporation, Sullivan Park Research Center, Corning, New York 14831, United States
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- Corning Research and Development Corporation, Sullivan Park Research Center, Corning, New York 14831, United States
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- Corning Research and Development Corporation, Sullivan Park Research Center, Corning, New York 14831, United States
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de Almeida JM, Nguyen NL, Colonna N, Chen W, Rodrigues Miranda C, Pasquarello A, Marzari N. Electronic Structure of Water from Koopmans-Compliant Functionals. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:3923-3930. [PMID: 34137253 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Obtaining a precise theoretical description of the spectral properties of liquid water poses challenges for both molecular dynamics (MD) and electronic structure methods. The lower computational cost of the Koopmans-compliant functionals with respect to Green's function methods allows the simulations of many MD trajectories, with a description close to the state-of-art quasi-particle self-consistent GW plus vertex corrections method (QSGW + fxc). Thus, we explore water spectral properties when different MD approaches are used, ranging from classical MD to first-principles MD, and including nuclear quantum effects. We have observed that different MD approaches lead to up to 1 eV change in the average band gap; thus, we focused on the band gap dependence with the geometrical properties of a system to explain such spread. We have evaluated the changes in the band gap due to variations in the intramolecular O-H bond distance and HOH angle, as well as the intermolecular hydrogen bond O···O distance and the OHO angles. We have observed that the dominant contribution comes from the O-H bond length; the O···O distance plays a secondary role, and the other geometrical properties do not significantly influence the gap. Furthermore, we analyze the electronic density of states (DOS), where the KIPZ functional shows good agreement with the DOS obtained with state-of-art approaches employing quasi-particle self-consistent GW plus vertex corrections. The O-H bond length also significantly influences the DOS. When nuclear quantum effects are considered, broadening of the peaks driven by the broader distribution of the O-H bond lengths is observed, leading to a closer agreement with the experimental photoemission spectra.
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- James Moraes de Almeida
- Universidade Federal do ABC, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Santo André, 09210-580 SP, Brazil.,Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland.,National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanoscience, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Graf M, Vonbun-Feldbauer GB, Koper MTM. Direct and Broadband Plasmonic Charge Transfer to Enhance Water Oxidation on a Gold Electrode. ACS NANO 2021; 15:3188-3200. [PMID: 33496564 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Plasmonic photocatalysis via hot charge carriers suffers from their short lifetime compared with the sluggish kinetics of most reactions. To increase lifetime, adsorbates on the surface of a plasmonic metal may create preferential states for electrons to be excited from. We demonstrate this effect with O adsorbates on a nanoporous gold electrode. Nanoporous gold is used to obtain a broadband optical response, to increase the obtained photocurrent, and to provide a SERS-active substrate. Only with adsorbates present, we observe significant photocurrents. Illumination also increases the adsorbate coverage above its dark potential-dependent equilibrium, as derived from a two-laser in situ SERS approach. Density functional theory calculations confirm the appearance of excitable states below the Fermi level. The photocurrent enhancement and broadband characteristics reveal the potential of the plasmonic approach to improve the efficiency of photoelectrochemical water splitting.
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- Matthias Graf
- Institute for Materials Research, Helmholtz Center Geesthacht, D-21502 Geesthacht, Germany
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2333 CD Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2333 CD Leiden, The Netherlands
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Fang CM, Mohammodi V, Nihtianov S, Sluiter MHF. Stability, geometry and electronic properties of BH n (n = 0 to 3) radicals on the Si{0 0 1}3 × 1:H surface from first-principles. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2020; 32:235201. [PMID: 31962296 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab6e43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A new generation of radiation detectors relies on the crystalline Si and amorphous B (c-Si/a-B) junctions that are prepared through chemical vapor deposition of diborane (B2H6) on Si at low temperature (~400 °C). The Si wafer surface is dominated by the Si{0 0 1}3 × 1 domains that consist of two different Si species at low temperature. Here we investigate the geometry, stability and electronic properties of the hydrogen passivated Si{0 0 1}3 × 1 surfaces with deposited BH n (n = 0 to 3) radicals using parameter-free first-principles approaches. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations using the density functional theory (DFT) including van der Waals interaction reveal that in the initial stage the BH3 molecules/radicals deposit on the Si(-H), forming (-Si)BH4 radicals which then decompose into (-Si)BH2 with release of H2 molecules. Structural optimizations provide strong local relaxation and reconstructions at the deposited Si surface. Electronic structure calculations reveal the formation of various defect states in the forbidden gap. This indicates limitations of the presently used rigid electron-counting and band-filling models. The attained information enhances our understanding of the initial stage of the PureB process and the electric properties of the products.
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- C M Fang
- BCAST, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 2AD, United Kingdom
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Schwarz K, Sundararaman R. The electrochemical interface in first-principles calculations. SURFACE SCIENCE REPORTS 2020; 75:10.1016/j.surfrep.2020.100492. [PMID: 34194128 PMCID: PMC8240516 DOI: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2020.100492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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First-principles predictions play an important role in understanding chemistry at the electrochemical interface. Electronic structure calculations are straightforward for vacuum interfaces, but do not easily account for the interfacial fields and solvation that fundamentally change the nature of electrochemical reactions. Prevalent techniques for first-principles prediction of electrochemical processes range from expensive explicit solvation using ab initio molecular dynamics, through a hierarchy of continuum solvation techniques, to neglecting solvation and interfacial field effects entirely. Currently, no single approach reliably captures all relevant effects of the electrochemical double layer in first-principles calculations. This review systematically lays out the relation between all major approaches to first-principles electrochemistry, including the key approximations and their consequences for accuracy and computational cost. Focusing on ab initio methods for thermodynamic properties of aqueous interfaces, we first outline general considerations for modeling electrochemical interfaces, including solvent and electrolyte dynamics and electrification. We then present the specifics of various explicit and implicit models of the solvent and electrolyte. Finally, we discuss the compromise between computational efficiency and accuracy, and identify key outstanding challenges and future opportunities in the wide range of techniques for first-principles electrochemistry.
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- Kathleen Schwarz
- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th St., Troy, New York 12180, USA
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Bakó I, Daru J, Pothoczki S, Pusztai L, Hermansson K. Effects of H-bond asymmetry on the electronic properties of liquid water – An AIMD analysis. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.111579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Cabral BJ. The Kohn-Sham electronic density of states of liquid HCN: Tuning a long-range corrected exchange-correlation functional for predicting electron binding energies. Chem Phys Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2019.03.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Cabral BJ. Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, hydrogen bond interactions and magnetic properties of liquid hydrogen cyanide. J Mol Liq 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.09.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Machida M, Kato K, Shiga M. Nuclear quantum effects of light and heavy water studied by all-electron first principles path integral simulations. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:102324. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5000091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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- Masahiko Machida
- CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), 178-4-4, Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0871, Japan
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- Mizuho Information and Research Institute, Inc., 2-3, Kandanishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8443, Japan
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- CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), 178-4-4, Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0871, Japan
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Gaiduk AP, Pham TA, Govoni M, Paesani F, Galli G. Electron affinity of liquid water. Nat Commun 2018; 9:247. [PMID: 29339731 PMCID: PMC5770385 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02673-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Understanding redox and photochemical reactions in aqueous environments requires a precise knowledge of the ionization potential and electron affinity of liquid water. The former has been measured, but not the latter. We predict the electron affinity of liquid water and of its surface from first principles, coupling path-integral molecular dynamics with ab initio potentials, and many-body perturbation theory. Our results for the surface (0.8 eV) agree well with recent pump-probe spectroscopy measurements on amorphous ice. Those for the bulk (0.1-0.3 eV) differ from several estimates adopted in the literature, which we critically revisit. We show that the ionization potential of the bulk and surface are almost identical; instead their electron affinities differ substantially, with the conduction band edge of the surface much deeper in energy than that of the bulk. We also discuss the significant impact of nuclear quantum effects on the fundamental gap and band edges of the liquid.
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- Alex P Gaiduk
- Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.,Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 92093, USA.
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- Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA. .,Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
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We have used ab initio molecular dynamics and density-functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G** level of theory to evaluate the energy and localisation of excess electrons at a number of representative interfaces of polymer nanocomposites.
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- Fernan Saiz
- Department of Chemistry
- Imperial College
- London
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Imperial College
- London
- UK
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Céolin D, Kryzhevoi NV, Nicolas C, Pokapanich W, Choksakulporn S, Songsiriritthigul P, Saisopa T, Rattanachai Y, Utsumi Y, Palaudoux J, Öhrwall G, Rueff JP. Ultrafast Charge Transfer Processes Accompanying KLL Auger Decay in Aqueous KCl Solution. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:263003. [PMID: 29328710 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.263003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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X-ray photoelectron and KLL Auger spectra were measured for the K^{+} and Cl^{-} ions in aqueous KCl solution. While the XPS spectra of these ions have similar structures, both exhibiting only weak satellites near the main line, the Auger spectra differ dramatically. Contrary to the chloride case, a very strong extra peak was found in the Auger spectrum of K^{+} at the low kinetic energy side of the ^{1}D state. Using the equivalent core model and ab initio calculations this spectral feature was assigned to electron transfer processes from solvent water molecules to the solvated cation. The observed charge transfer processes are suggested to play an important role in charge redistribution following single and multiple core-hole creation in atoms and molecules placed into environment.
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- D Céolin
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, F-91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, F-91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Faculty of Science, Nakhon Phanom University, Nakhon Phanom 48000 Thailand
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- Faculty of Science, Nakhon Phanom University, Nakhon Phanom 48000 Thailand
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- NANOTEC-SUT Center of Excellence on Advanced Functional Nanomaterials and School of Physics, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
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- NANOTEC-SUT Center of Excellence on Advanced Functional Nanomaterials and School of Physics, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
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- Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Liberal Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, F-91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, F-91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
- CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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Yadav VK. Formaldehyde-mediated spectroscopic properties of heavy water from first principles simulation. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2017.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Energetic Study of Clusters and Reaction Barrier Heights from Efficient Semilocal Density Functionals. COMPUTATION 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/computation5020027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Chen W, Ambrosio F, Miceli G, Pasquarello A. Ab initio Electronic Structure of Liquid Water. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 117:186401. [PMID: 27835004 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.186401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2015] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Self-consistent GW calculations with efficient vertex corrections are employed to determine the electronic structure of liquid water. Nuclear quantum effects are taken into account through ab initio path-integral molecular dynamics simulations. We reveal a sizable band-gap renormalization of up to 0.7 eV due to hydrogen-bond quantum fluctuations. Our calculations lead to a band gap of 8.9 eV, in accord with the experimental estimate. We further resolve the ambiguities in the band-edge positions of liquid water. The valence-band maximum and the conduction-band minimum are found at -9.4 and -0.5 eV with respect to the vacuum level, respectively.
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- Wei Chen
- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Hollas D, Muchová E, Slavíček P. Modeling Liquid Photoemission Spectra: Path-Integral Molecular Dynamics Combined with Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Functionals. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:5009-5017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Daniel Hollas
- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Fang CM, van Blaaderen A, van Huis MA. Stability and geometry of silica nano-ribbons (SNRs): a first-principles study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:21825-32. [PMID: 27436792 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp03913h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Silica based materials are attractive because of their versatility and their unique structures and properties, which have led to numerous applications of silica in a range of fields. Recently, various low-dimensional silica materials have been synthesized experimentally. Here we present a first-principles study on the geometry and stability of novel low-dimensional silica nano-ribbons (SNRs) using density-functional theory (DFT) with van der Waals interactions (optB88-vdW). SNRs of various widths with different surface groups, and with the geometry of hexagonal rings and squares, were taken into consideration. An atomically flat ribbon with mixing squares and rings is also included. The calculations showed high stability for the single layer and bilayer silica ribbons, both containing hexagonal rings. The calculations also revealed a high flexibility of silica chains. The local structure and chemical bonding were carefully analyzed. Electronic band structure calculations showed an insulating nature of the SNRs with energy gaps of about 5.0 to 6.0 eV, which are determined by nonbonding and anti-bonding O 2p states.
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- C M Fang
- Soft Condensed Matter (SCM), Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science (DINS), Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Blase X, Boulanger P, Bruneval F, Fernandez-Serra M, Duchemin I. GW and Bethe-Salpeter study of small water clusters. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:034109. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4940139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- CEA, DEN, Service de Recherches de Métallurgie Physique, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
- Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- INAC, SP2M/L_Sim, CEA/UJF Cedex 09, 38054 Grenoble, France
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Engel EA, Monserrat B, Needs RJ. Vibrational renormalisation of the electronic band gap in hexagonal and cubic ice. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:244708. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4938029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Edgar A. Engel
- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019, USA
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- TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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Ambrosio F, Miceli G, Pasquarello A. Redox levels in aqueous solution: Effect of van der Waals interactions and hybrid functionals. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:244508. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4938189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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- Francesco Ambrosio
- Chaire de Simulation à l’Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chaire de Simulation à l’Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chaire de Simulation à l’Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Del Ben M, Hutter J, VandeVondele J. Probing the structural and dynamical properties of liquid water with models including non-local electron correlation. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:054506. [PMID: 26254660 DOI: 10.1063/1.4927325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Water is a ubiquitous liquid that displays a wide range of anomalous properties and has a delicate structure that challenges experiment and simulation alike. The various intermolecular interactions that play an important role, such as repulsion, polarization, hydrogen bonding, and van der Waals interactions, are often difficult to reproduce faithfully in atomistic models. Here, electronic structure theories including all these interactions at equal footing, which requires the inclusion of non-local electron correlation, are used to describe structure and dynamics of bulk liquid water. Isobaric-isothermal (NpT) ensemble simulations based on the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) yield excellent density (0.994 g/ml) and fair radial distribution functions, while various other density functional approximations produce scattered results (0.8-1.2 g/ml). Molecular dynamics simulation in the microcanonical (NVE) ensemble based on Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) yields dynamical properties in the condensed phase, namely, the infrared spectrum and diffusion constant. At the MP2 and RPA levels of theory, ice is correctly predicted to float on water, resolving one of the anomalies as resulting from a delicate balance between van der Waals and hydrogen bonding interactions. For several properties, obtaining quantitative agreement with experiment requires correction for nuclear quantum effects (NQEs), highlighting their importance, for structure, dynamics, and electronic properties. A computed NQE shift of 0.6 eV for the band gap and absorption spectrum illustrates the latter. Giving access to both structure and dynamics of condensed phase systems, non-local electron correlation will increasingly be used to study systems where weak interactions are of paramount importance.
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- Mauro Del Ben
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Garbuio V, Cascella M, Kupchak I, Pulci O, Seitsonen AP. Proton disorder in cubic ice: Effect on the electronic and optical properties. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:084507. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4929468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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- Viviana Garbuio
- MIFP, ETSF, Physics Department of Tor Vergata University, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CTCC), University of Oslo, Postboks 1033, Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- MIFP, V. Lashkarev Institute of Semiconductor Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, pr. Nauki 45, UA-03680 Kiev, Ukraine
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- MIFP, ETSF, Physics Department of Tor Vergata University, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
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- Institut für Chemie, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
- Département de Chimie, École Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75005 Paris, France
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