Quantum mechanical studies of large metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide nanoparticles and clusters

A Fernando, KLDM Weerawardene… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

Palladium clusters supported on graphene monovacancies for hydrogen storage

CM Ramos-Castillo, JU Reveles, RR Zope… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We give a detailed description of the atomic structure and the energetics of H2 adsorption on
Pd n (n= 1–4) clusters supported on graphene monovacancies. The large binding energy of …

Ti4- and Ni4-Doped Defective Graphene Nanoplatelets as Efficient Materials for Hydrogen Storage

CM Ramos-Castillo, JU Reveles… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report a detailed theoretical investigation of the structural and electronic properties of
titanium-and nickel-doped defective graphene nanoplatelets, which are shown to be efficient …

Revealing the multibonding state between hydrogen and graphene-supported Ti clusters

K Takahashi, S Isobe, K Omori, T Mashoff… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen adsorption on graphene-supported metal clusters has brought much controversy
due to the complex nature of the bonding between hydrogen and metal clusters. The bond …

An all-electron density functional theory study of the structure and properties of the neutral and singly charged M12 and M13 clusters: M= Sc–Zn

GL Gutsev, CW Weatherford, KG Belay… - The journal of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The electronic and geometrical structures of the M 12 and M 13 clusters where M= Sc, Ti, V,
Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn along with their singly negatively and positively charged ions …

Adsorption of a water molecule on the surface of neutral and charged titanium clusters: Tin-H2O, Tin+ 1-H2O, Tin-1-H2O, n≤ 9

Á Ortega, BA Acosta-García, M Castro - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023 - Elsevier
Adsorption of a water molecule on the surface of neutral and charged titanium, Ti n 0,±1 H 2
O, n≤ 9, clusters was studied in this work using density functional theory, BPW91-D2, all …

Quantum molecular study on doping effect in titanium and vanadium clusters: their application to remove some chemical species

AB Hernandez, D Cortés-Arriagada, HC García… - Applied …, 2020 - Springer
The structural, electronic and magnetic properties of Ti 13, Ti 12 C, V 13 and V 12 C clusters
with octahedral (O h), decahedral (D 5h) and icosahedral (I h) geometries have been …

New Multicomponent Optimization Scheme for Equiatomic Vanadium–Titanium Nanoparticle Study

Y Jiang, YR Liu - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present a new multicomponent structure prediction method named MRS-Swap
searching, which is inspired by space symmetry and swap of different atomic species. For …

Hydrogen storage in bimetallic Ti–Al sub-nanoclusters supported on graphene

CM Ramos-Castillo, JU Reveles… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent studies suggest that graphene decorated with light metal atoms is a feasible
alternative for the design of the next generation of hydrogen storage systems, that is …

Structural evolution, electronic properties and spectra of titanium clusters

KW Yin, D Die, JX Yang - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2022 - Elsevier
The ground-state structures, electronic properties and spectra of Ti nc (n= 3–16 and c= 0,±1)
clusters have been investigated based on density functional theory (DFT) and CALYPSO …