The electronic properties, stability and catalytic activity of metallofullerene (M@ C60) for robust hydrogen evolution reaction: DFT insights

S Sarfaraz, M Yar, K Ayub - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of low-cost, and highly active catalysts for electrocatalytic hydrogen
evolution process is of great interest. Exohedral first row transition metal doped fullerenes …

DFT insight into Cd2+, Hg2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, As3+, Sb3+, and Cr3+ heavy metal ions adsorption onto surface of bowl-like B30 nanosheet

S Kaviani, DA Tayurskii, OV Nedopekin… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Contamination of water resources by heavy metal ions, is a drastic environmental concern.
In this study, the interaction of Cd 2+, Hg 2+, Pb 2+, Sn 2+, As 3+, Sb 3+, and Cr 3+ metal …

Revealing the effect of Co/Cu (d7/d9) cationic doping on an electronic acceptor ZnO nanocage surface for the adsorption of citric acid, vinyl alcohol, and …

B Gassoumi, AMA Mahmoud, S Nasr, A Karayel… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The electron-spin duality and propagation of the active sites of free electrons are of interest
for adsorbing the guests and fixing them with strong hydrogen bonds (HB). The coherence of …

Mixed superalkalis are a better choice than pure superalkalis for B 12 N 12 nanocages to design high-performance nonlinear optical materials

R Bano, K Ayub, T Mahmood, M Arshad, A Sharif… - Dalton …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Mixed superalkali clusters are a source of excess electrons, as their vertical ionization
energies (2.81–3.36 eV) are much lower than those of alkali metals (even cesium (∼ 3.85 …

Computational exploration of graphyne and graphdiyne decorated with OLi3 as potential hydrogen storage candidates

A You, Y Liu, J Xiao, X Yue, HZ Huang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigated the hydrogen storage capacity of OLi 3 decorated graphyne
and graphdiyne using density functional theory calculation. The optimization results showed …

Design of D–π–A type carbon nanohoops with enhanced nonlinear optical response: a size-dependent effect study

X Huang, X Bai, P Gan, W Liu, H Yan, F Gao… - New Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon nanohoop compounds have attracted extensive attention recently due to their
aesthetically pleasing structures and unique properties. In order to reveal the structure …

Exploring the second-order polarizability of copper doped silicon carbide nanocluster: toward a new NLO material

J Yaqoob, S Tabassum, H AlMohamadi… - Physica …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonlinear optical materials are widely used in optical and optoelectronic devices. The
geometric, electronic, and NLO properties of copper-doped 2D silicon carbide nanoclusters …

A Quantum Chemical Study of Outstanding Structural, Electronic and Nonlinear Optical Polarizability of Boron Nitride (B12N12) Doped with Super Salt (P7BaNO3)

AR Ayub, U Yaqoob, S Rafiq, RA Shehzad… - Journal of Inorganic and …, 2022 - Springer
Theoretical study of super salt doped on B12N12 was conducted using density functional
theory. B3LYP is used with basis set LanL2DZ (a suitable basis set for metal atoms). The …

Investigation of nonlinear optical properties of a group of transition metal-decorated B12N12 nanocages: A DFT study

M Souri - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2024 - Elsevier
BN nanostructures are a promising group of materials with different technical applications. In
this study, the electronic characteristics and NLO response of a group of B 12 N 12 …

Structural, non-linear optical response and ultraviolet transparency of superalkalis (Li3O, Na3O, K3O)-doped bowel shape silicon carbide nanoclusters

N Kosar, S Noreen, K Ayub, M Imran… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the current study, the effect of superalkalis (Li 3 O, Na 3 O, and K 3 O) doping over bowl
shaped silicon carbide (b-SiC) for geometrical, electronic and nonlinear properties has been …