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Silva FT, Yoshinaga M, Galvão BRL. A method for predicting basins in the global optimization of nanoclusters with applications to Al xCu y alloys. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:16914-16925. [PMID: 32672291 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01327g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The problem of obtaining the geometrical configuration of a molecule that minimizes its potential energy is a very complicated one for a series of applications, ranging from determining the structure of biological macromolecules to nanoclusters of atoms. Global optimization tools are available for this task, and many of them are based in performing successive local optimizations, where the starting geometries for these steps are determined by an intelligent algorithm. Here we develop a method to save computing time in the optimization of nanoclusters by predicting if a given minimum has been previously visited during local optimization steps. Our application to Cu-Al nanoalloys indicates that it is possible to save a substantial amount of computational cost. The application also reveals new promising AlxCuy clusters and explain their stabilities in terms of the jellium model.
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- F T Silva
- Prime Systems, Av. Afonso Pena 3577, 7F, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Gomes ACR, de Souza TM, Da Silva JLF, Galvão BRL. An ab initio investigation of the adsorption properties of water on binary AlSi clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:24669-24676. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02974b] [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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Nanoalloys represent potential catalysts for the water splitting reaction. The water–cluster interaction is a key aspect of the process, but is not fully understood. This work provides an in-depth study and insights into the AlxSiy·H2O case.
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- Alexandre C. R. Gomes
- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- (30421-169) Belo Horizonte
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- (30421-169) Belo Horizonte
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- (30421-169) Belo Horizonte
- Brazil
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Reitz DM, Blaisten-Barojas E. Simulating the NaK Eutectic Alloy with Monte Carlo and Machine Learning. Sci Rep 2019; 9:704. [PMID: 30679496 PMCID: PMC6346044 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-36574-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Combining atomistic simulations and machine learning techniques can expedite significantly the materials discovery process. We present an application of such methodological combination for the prediction of the melting transition and amorphous-solid behavior of the NaK alloy at the eutectic concentration. We show that efficient prediction of these properties is possible via machine learning methods trained on the topological local structural properties. The configurations resulting from Monte Carlo annealing of the NaK eutectic alloy are analyzed with topological attributes based on the Voronoi tessellation and using expectation-maximization clustering and Random Forest classification. We show that the Voronoi topological fingerprints make an accurate and fast prediction of the alloy thermal behavior by cataloguing the atomic configurations into three distinct phases: liquid, amorphous solid, and crystalline solid. Melting is found at 230 K by the sharp split of configurations classified as crystalline solid and as liquid. With the proposed metrics, an arrest-motion temperature is identified at 130–140 K through a top down clustering of the atomic configurations catalogued as amorphous solid. This statistical learning paradigm is not restricted to eutectic alloys or thermodynamics, extends the utility of topological attributes in a significant way, and harnesses the discovery of new material properties.
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Silveira ADP, Gomes ACR, Galvão BRL. Structural and homotop optimization of neutral Al–Si nanoclusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:17464-17470. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03233e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [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 geometry and stability of aluminum–silicon alloys up to 13 atoms are investigated using electronic structure methods.
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- Ana D. P. Silveira
- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- (30421-169) Belo Horizonte
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- (30421-169) Belo Horizonte
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- (30421-169) Belo Horizonte
- Brazil
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Alcantar-Medina K, Herrera-Trejo M, Tlahuice-Flores A, Martinez-Vargas S, Oliva J, Martinez A. Evolution of the structural and electronic properties of small alkali metal-doped aluminum clusters. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2016.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Electronic structure and binding energy relaxation of ScZr atomic alloying. Chem Phys Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Paiva MAM, Peluzo BMTC, Belchior JC, Galvão BRL. Structure and stability of neutral Al–Mg nanoclusters up to 55 atoms. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:31579-31585. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp05605a] [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 geometries of aluminum–magnesium nanoalloys are explored using a genetic algorithm tuned to search for the 10 lowest energy minima for each cluster size and composition.
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- Mateus A. M. Paiva
- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- Minas Gerais
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- Minas Gerais
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química-ICEx
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Minas Gerais
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
- CEFET-MG
- Minas Gerais
- Brazil
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Bo M, Guo Y, Wang Y, Liu Y, Peng C, Sun CQ, Huang Y. Electronic binding energy and thermal relaxation of Li and LiNa atomic alloying clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:13280-6. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01783e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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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We examined the effects of atomic hetero- and under-coordination on the relaxation of the interatomic bonding and electronic binding energy of Li and LiNa cluster alloying using a combination of the bond-order-length-strength correlation and density functional theory calculations.
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- Maolin Bo
- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- Yangtze Normal University
- Chongqing 408100
- China
- Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Application Technologies (Ministry of Education)
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- Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Application Technologies (Ministry of Education)
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Thin Film Materials and Devices
- Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering
- Xiangtan University
- Hunan 411105
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- School of Information and Electronic Engineering
- Hunan University of Science and Technology
- Hunan 411201
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Application Technologies (Ministry of Education)
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Thin Film Materials and Devices
- Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering
- Xiangtan University
- Hunan 411105
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- Yangtze Normal University
- Chongqing 408100
- China
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- NOVITAS
- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore 639798
- Singapore
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- Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Application Technologies (Ministry of Education)
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Thin Film Materials and Devices
- Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering
- Xiangtan University
- Hunan 411105
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Silva F, Galvão B, Voga G, Silva M, Rodrigues D, Belchior J. Exploring the MP2 energy surface of nanoalloy clusters with a genetic algorithm: Application to sodium–potassium. Chem Phys Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Asgari M, Behnejad H, Fortunelli A. Composition-dependent melting behaviour of Na xK 55–xcore–shell nanoalloys. Mol Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2014.919039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Silva MX, Galvão BRL, Belchior JC. Growth analysis of sodium-potassium alloy clusters from 7 to 55 atoms through a genetic algorithm approach. J Mol Model 2014; 20:2421. [DOI: 10.1007/s00894-014-2421-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 08/06/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Datta S, Saha-Dasgupta T. Vegard's law-like behavior for Mn(m)Tc(n) alloy clusters: a first-principles prediction. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2014; 26:185004. [PMID: 24728079 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/18/185004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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With a view to gaining an understanding of the alloying tendency of bimetallic nanoalloy clusters of isoelectronic constituents, we studied the structural and mixing behavior of MnmTcn alloy clusters with m + n = 13 for all possible compositions, using first-principles electronic structure calculations. Our study reports a favorable mixing tendency for the alloy clusters. The average bond lengths of the minimum energy structures show an overall linear variation with concentration, indicating a Vegard's law-like variation for the nanoalloy clusters, though the optimized structures undergo a structural transition from a closed and compact structure for the Mn-rich alloy clusters to an open layered-like structure for the Tc-rich alloy clusters. We work out a continuous and smooth interplay between hybridization and magnetization properties of the alloy clusters, which plays a vital role in the Vegard's law-like variation in their average bond lengths.
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- S Datta
- Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector-III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700 098, India
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Silva MX, Galvão BRL, Belchior JC. Theoretical study of small sodium–potassium alloy clusters through genetic algorithm and quantum chemical calculations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:8895-904. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp55379e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Structures regarding the growth of sodium–potassium clusters obtained employing electronic structure methods—from high level coupled cluster calculations to all-electrons correlated MP2 and density functional theory.
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- Mateus X. Silva
- Departamento de Química-ICEx
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- 31.270-901 Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química-ICEx
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- 31.270-901 Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Departamento de Química
- Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
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- Departamento de Química-ICEx
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- 31.270-901 Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Rondina GG, Da Silva JLF. Revised Basin-Hopping Monte Carlo Algorithm for Structure Optimization of Clusters and Nanoparticles. J Chem Inf Model 2013; 53:2282-98. [DOI: 10.1021/ci400224z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gustavo G. Rondina
- Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 369, 13560-970, São
Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Química de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 780, 13560-970, São
Carlos, SP, Brazil
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Marques JMC, Pais AACC, Abreu PE. On the use of big-bang method to generate low-energy structures of atomic clusters modeled with pair potentials of different ranges. J Comput Chem 2011; 33:442-52. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2011] [Revised: 10/11/2011] [Accepted: 10/12/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Lai X, Xu R, Huang W. Geometry optimization of bimetallic clusters using an efficient heuristic method. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:164109. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3656766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Aguado A, López JM. Identifying structural and energetic trends in isovalent core-shell nanoalloys as a function of composition and size mismatch. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:134305. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3645105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Aguado A, Kostko O. First-principles determination of the structure of NaN and NaN− clusters with up to 80 atoms. J Chem Phys 2011; 134:164304. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3582911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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