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Álvarez-García A, Molina LM, Garzón IL. O 2 activation by subnanometer Re-Pt clusters supported on TiO 2(110): exploring adsorption sites. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:15902-15915. [PMID: 38775219 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp01118j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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Activation of O2 by subnanometer metal clusters is a fundamental step in the reactivity and oxidation processes of single-cluster catalysts. In this work, we examine the adsorption and dissociation of O2 on RenPtm (n + m = 5) clusters supported on rutile TiO2(110) using DFT calculations. The adhesion energies of RenPtm clusters on the support are high, indicating significant stability of the supported clusters. Furthermore, the bimetallic Re-Pt clusters attach to the surface through the Re atoms. The oxygen molecule was adsorbed on three sites of the supported systems: the metal cluster, the surface, and the interface. At the metal cluster site, the O2 molecule binds strongly to RenPtm clusters, especially on the Re-rich clusters. O2 activation occurs by charge transfer from the metal atoms to the molecule. The dissociation of O2 on the RenPtm clusters is an exothermic process with low barriers. As a result, sub-nanometer Re-Pt clusters can be susceptible to oxidation. Similar results are obtained at the metal-support interface, where both the surface and cluster transfer charge to O2. To surface sites, molecular oxygen is adsorbed onto the Ti5c atoms with moderate adsorption energies. The polarons, which are produced by the interaction between the metal cluster and the surface, participate in the activation of the molecule. However, dissociating O2 in these sites is challenging due to the endothermic nature of the process and the high energy barriers involved. Our findings provide novel insights into the reactivity of supported clusters, specifically regarding the O2 activation by Re-Pt clusters on rutile TiO2(110).
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- Andrés Álvarez-García
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, Ciudad de México 01000, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Optica, Universidad de Valladolid, E-47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, Ciudad de México 01000, Mexico.
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Schön JC. Structure prediction in low dimensions: concepts, issues and examples. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2023; 381:20220246. [PMID: 37211034 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2022.0246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Structure prediction of stable and metastable polymorphs of chemical systems in low dimensions has become an important field, since materials that are patterned on the nano-scale are of increasing importance in modern technological applications. While many techniques for the prediction of crystalline structures in three dimensions or of small clusters of atoms have been developed over the past three decades, dealing with low-dimensional systems-ideal one-dimensional and two-dimensional systems, quasi-one-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional systems, as well as low-dimensional composite systems-poses its own challenges that need to be addressed when developing a systematic methodology for the determination of low-dimensional polymorphs that are suitable for practical applications. Quite generally, the search algorithms that had been developed for three-dimensional systems need to be adjusted when being applied to low-dimensional systems with their own specific constraints; in particular, the embedding of the (quasi-)one-dimensional/two-dimensional system in three dimensions and the influence of stabilizing substrates need to be taken into account, both on a technical and a conceptual level. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Supercomputing simulations of advanced materials'.
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- J Christian Schön
- Department of Nanoscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Takimoto K, Takeuchi K, Ton NNT, Taniike T. Exploring stabilizer formulations for light-induced yellowing of polystyrene by high-throughput experimentation and machine learning. Polym Degrad Stab 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2022.109967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Takasao G, Wada T, Thakur A, Chammingkwan P, Terano M, Taniike T. Insight into structural distribution of heterogeneous Ziegler–Natta catalyst from non-empirical structure determination. J Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Buendía F, Anzaldo AT, Vital C, Beltrán MR. O 2 activation by AuAg clusters on a defective (100)MgO surface. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:024303. [PMID: 31941299 DOI: 10.1063/1.5129462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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In the present work, we discuss the electronic properties of supported dispersed bimetallic clusters with respect to their size, geometry, and Aun/Agm (n + m = 6) composition. We have studied with supercell-density functional theory calculations the role of the charge transfer from the MgO defective support toward the cluster in the activation of O2 by AunAgm clusters. We first considered gas-phase clusters with different atomic compositions; then, we deposited all of them on a pristine (100)MgO surface and finally on a more realistic (100)MgO F-center. We performed a global and unrestricted search of the (cluster + surface) geometry. The Mexican enhanced genetic algorithm has been used to exhaustively explore the potential energy surface. Our results show that O2 activation depends on the Aun/Agm ratio. It has been found that both metals involved play different and important roles toward (a) the actual O2 dissociation and (b) weakening of the oxygen-cluster bond, which, in turn, may promote the possibility of a catalytic process to take place, such as the oxidation process of CO and NOx among others.
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- F Buendía
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 CDMX, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. 70-360, C. P. 04510, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. 70-360, C. P. 04510, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. 70-360, C. P. 04510, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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Jäger M, Schäfer R, Johnston RL. GIGA: a versatile genetic algorithm for free and supported clusters and nanoparticles in the presence of ligands. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:9042-9052. [PMID: 31025685 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr02031d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We present a versatile parallelised genetic algorithm, which is able to perform global optimisation from first principles for pure and mixed free clusters in the gas phase, supported on surfaces or in the presence of one or several atomic or molecular species (ligands or adsorbates). The genetic algorithm is coupled to different quantum chemical software packages in order to permit a large variety of methods for the global optimisation. The genetic algorithm is also capable of optimising different electronic spin multiplicities explicitly, which allows global optimisation on several potential energy hypersurfaces in parallel. We employ the genetic algorithm to study ligand-passivated clusters [Cd3Se3(H2S)3]+ and to investigate adsorption of [Pt6(H2O)2]+ supported on graphene. The explicit consideration of the electronic spin multiplicity during global optimisation is investigated for nanoalloy clusters Pt4V2.
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- Marc Jäger
- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Eduard-Zintl Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
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Freibert A, Dieterich JM, Hartke B. Exploring self-organization of molecular tether molecules on a gold surface by global structure optimization. J Comput Chem 2019; 40:1978-1989. [PMID: 31069834 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We employ nondeterministic global cluster structure optimization, based on the evolutionary algorithms paradigm, to model the self-assembly of complex molecules on a surface. As a real-life application example directly related to many recent experiments, we use this approach for the assembly of triazatriangulene "platform" molecules on the Au(111) surface. Without additional restrictions like spatial discretizations, coarse-graining or precalculated adsorption poses, and despite the proof-of-principle character of this study, we achieve satisfactory qualitative agreement with several experimental observations and can provide answers to questions that experiments on these species had left open so far. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Antonia Freibert
- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany.,Department of Chemistry, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany
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Van den Bossche M. DFTB-Assisted Global Structure Optimization of 13- and 55-Atom Late Transition Metal Clusters. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:3038-3045. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b00927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Takasao G, Wada T, Thakur A, Chammingkwan P, Terano M, Taniike T. Machine Learning-Aided Structure Determination for TiCl4–Capped MgCl2 Nanoplate of Heterogeneous Ziegler–Natta Catalyst. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b05080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Gentoku Takasao
- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
- Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), P.O. Box 902, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
- Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), P.O. Box 902, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
- Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), P.O. Box 902, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
- Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), P.O. Box 902, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Buendía F, Vargas JA, Beltrán MR. Stability of Au mAg n (m + n = 1-6) clusters supported on a F-center MgO(100) surface. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:30466-30474. [PMID: 30507978 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05187a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A theoretical study has been performed for deposited AumAgn (m + n = 1-6) clusters. The combined use of the Mexican Enhanced Genetic Algorithm (MEGA) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations allows us to explore the potential energy surface and therefore, find the global minimum configuration for each composition. We have performed calculations of clusters deposited on defects (oxygen vacancies) known as F centers on MgO (100) surfaces. Our results show interesting differences in the geometries of the clusters upon deposition and as a consequence in their electronic properties. The combination of two metals with different electronegativities creates an inhomogeneous charge distribution on their exposed surface producing good conditions for a catalytic process to take place.
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- Fernando Buendía
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circ. ext. s/n Apdo. Postal 70-360, C.P. 04510, México D.F., Mexico.
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A genetic algorithm survey on closed-shell atomic nitrogen clusters employing a quantum chemical approach. J Mol Model 2018; 24:196. [DOI: 10.1007/s00894-018-3724-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Ma J, Yang X, Nie Y, Wang B. The influence of a hydrophobic carrier, reactant and product during H 2O adsorption on Pd surface for the oxidative esterification of methacrolein to methyl methacrylate. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:9965-9974. [PMID: 29619457 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00609a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Taking the one-step oxidative esterification of methacrolein (MAL) to methyl methacrylate (MMA) as a model reaction and because H2O that was generated easily formed a film of water on the catalyst surface, which restricted the diffusion of the reactants to the active sites, the effects of the hydrophobic carrier styrene-divinylbenzene (SDB) copolymer, the reactant CH3OH and the product MMA during the adsorption of H2O on a Pd surface were investigated. For a Pd/SDB catalyst, the interactions between the active component and the carrier were first calculated using Pd4 clusters. The results implied that Pd4 clusters were chemisorbed on the SDB carrier. By comparing the adsorption energy of H2O molecules on Pd4 clusters with or without SDB, it was found that the adsorption energy of the former was reduced by about 50%, indicating that the hydrophobic carrier SDB reduced the adsorption of H2O on Pd4 clusters. This was also confirmed by the results for the partial density of states, differences in charge density and comparative Mulliken charge analysis. The influences of the reactant CH3OH and the product MMA on the adsorption of H2O were investigated using the Pd(111) surface. The results of co-adsorption simulations showed that some of the electrons on CH3OH molecules were transferred to H2O molecules that strengthened the electronic interaction between H2O molecules and the Pd surface and led to a change in the adsorption of isolated H2O molecules from physisorption to chemisorption. However, the product MMA when chemisorbed on the Pd surface had little effect on the adsorption of H2O molecules on the Pd(111) surface.
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- Jing Ma
- Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, R&D Center for Petrochemical Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
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Van den Bossche M, Grönbeck H, Hammer B. Tight-Binding Approximation-Enhanced Global Optimization. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:2797-2807. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Maxime Van den Bossche
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
- Science Institute and Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Department of Physics and Competence Centre for Catalysis, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 58 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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Palagin D, Doye JPK. DNA-stabilized Ag-Au bimetallic clusters: the effects of alloying and embedding on optical properties. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:22311-22. [PMID: 27459508 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp04352f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Global geometry optimization and time-dependent density functional theory calculations have been used to study the structural evolution and optical properties of AgnAun (n = 2-6) nanoalloys both as individual clusters and as clusters stabilized with the fragments of DNA of different size. We show that alloying can be used to control and tune the level of interaction between the metal atoms of the cluster and the organic fragments of the DNA ligands. For instance, gold and silver atoms are shown to exhibit synergistic effects in the process of charge transfer from the nucleobase to the cluster, with the silver atoms directly connected to the nitrogen atoms of cytosine increasing their positive partial charge, while their more electronegative neighbouring gold atoms host the excess negative charge. This allows the geometrical structures and optical absorption spectra of small bimetallic clusters to retain many of their main features upon aggregation with relatively large DNA fragments, such as a cytosine-based 9-nucleotide hairpin loop, which suggests a potential synthetic route to such hybrid metal-organic compounds, and opens up the possibility of bringing the unique tunable properties of bimetallic nanoalloys to biological applications.
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- Dennis Palagin
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK.
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- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK.
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Buendía F, Vargas JA, Beltrán MR, Davis JBA, Johnston RL. A comparative study of AumRhn (4 ≤ m + n ≤ 6) clusters in the gas phase versus those deposited on (100) MgO. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:22122-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp03735f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [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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The combined use of a genetic algorithm and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations allows us to explore the potential energy surface. Our results show interesting effects on the geometries of the clusters on deposition. Two-dimensional clusters in the gas phase become three-dimensional and vice versa.
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- Fernando Buendía
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- México D.F
- Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- México D.F
- Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- México D.F
- Mexico
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Davis JBA, Shayeghi A, Horswell SL, Johnston RL. The Birmingham parallel genetic algorithm and its application to the direct DFT global optimisation of Ir(N) (N = 10-20) clusters. NANOSCALE 2015; 7:14032-8. [PMID: 26239404 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr03774c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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A new open-source parallel genetic algorithm, the Birmingham parallel genetic algorithm, is introduced for the direct density functional theory global optimisation of metallic nanoparticles. The program utilises a pool genetic algorithm methodology for the efficient use of massively parallel computational resources. The scaling capability of the Birmingham parallel genetic algorithm is demonstrated through its application to the global optimisation of iridium clusters with 10 to 20 atoms, a catalytically important system with interesting size-specific effects. This is the first study of its type on Iridium clusters of this size and the parallel algorithm is shown to be capable of scaling beyond previous size restrictions and accurately characterising the structures of these larger system sizes. By globally optimising the system directly at the density functional level of theory, the code captures the cubic structures commonly found in sub-nanometre sized Ir clusters.
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- Jack B A Davis
- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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Chen JJ, Wang WK, Li WW, Pei DN, Yu HQ. Roles of Crystal Surface in Pt-Loaded Titania for Photocatalytic Conversion of Organic Pollutants: A First-Principle Theoretical Calculation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2015; 7:12671-12678. [PMID: 26013255 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Titania modified with nanosized metallic clusters is found to substantially enhance its photocatalytic capacity for renewable energy generation and environmental purification, but the underlying mechanism, especially the roles of crystal surface in noble-metal-loaded TiO2, remain unclear. In this work, such roles in the Pt-loaded anatase TiO2 for the photocatalytic conversion of nitrobenzene (NB), a model pollutant, are explored by first-principle calculations. The theoretical calculations reveal that the Pt-TiO2 complex has a higher catalytic activity toward NB conversion than pure Pt clusters, and the (001) facets of TiO2 in this complex tend to accumulate more positively charged holes and thus have a higher photocatalytic activity than the (101) facets. Furthermore, the thermodynamic and kinetic results also show that the Pt cluster loaded on the (001) surface of anatase TiO2 is favored for NB conversion in the photooxidation pathway. This work deepens our fundamental understanding on the evolution of molecule-photocatalyst interface and provides implications for designing and preparing photocatalysts.
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