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 …

Evolution of the structural, energetic, and electronic properties of the 3d, 4d, and 5d transition-metal clusters (30 TM n systems for n= 2–15): a density functional theory …

AS Chaves, MJ Piotrowski, JLF Da Silva - Physical chemistry chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Subnanometric transition-metal (TM) clusters have attracted great attention due to their
unexpected physical and chemical properties, leastwise compared to their bulk …

Density functional theory investigation of , , and 13-atom metal clusters

MJ Piotrowski, P Piquini, JLF Da Silva - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2010 - APS
The knowledge of the atomic structure of clusters composed by few atoms is a basic
prerequisite to obtain insights into the mechanisms that determine their chemical and …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic pseudopotentials from reference eigenvalue sets for DFT calculations

P Rivero, VM García-Suárez, D Pereñiguez… - Computational Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Pseudopotential-based Density-Functional Theory (DFT) permits the calculation of
material properties with a modest computational effort, besides an acknowledged tradeoff of …

On the Ground State of Pd13

AM Köster, P Calaminici, E Orgaz… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
First-principles electronic structure calculations within a gradient corrected density functional
formalism have been carried out to investigate the electronic structure and magnetic …

Comparative ab initio study of the structural, electronic, and magnetic trends of isoelectronic late and transition metal clusters

F Aguilera-Granja, A García-Fuente, A Vega - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2008 - APS
We present a density-functional comparative study of the electronic properties and the
structural trends of the late isoelectronic 3 d (Fe, Co, Ni) and 4 d (Ru, Rh, Pd) free-standing …

Theoretical study of linear monoatomic nanowires, dimer and bulk of Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Pd and Pt

EY Zarechnaya, NV Skorodumova, SI Simak… - Computational materials …, 2008 - Elsevier
The binding and electronic properties of monoatomic nanowires, dimers and bulk structures
of Cu, Ag, Au and Ni, Pd, Pt have been studied by the projector augmented-wave method …

Oxygen adsorption in Ag (m)@ X (n)(X= Pd, Pt) core-shell nanoalloys (m+ n= 55), structural and energetic properties: A DFT study

H Yıldırım, H Arslan - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2024 - Elsevier
The interaction between surface atoms and adsorbates is a major element of the reactivity
and stability of the catalyst. Previous experimental research has indicated potential …

Stability of Pd clusters supported on pristine, B-doped, and defective graphene quantum dots, and their reactivity toward oxygen adsorption: A DFT analysis

F Montejo-Alvaro, H Rojas-Chávez, R Román-Doval… - Solid State …, 2019 - Elsevier
A DFT-based study was carried out to investigate the ground-state structures and properties
of Pd n (n= 3–10) clusters, the stability of Pd n (n= 3–10) clusters supported on pristine (C 96 …

Density Functional Theory Study of RhnS0,± and Rhn+10,± (n = 1–9)

MJ Lecours, WCT Chow… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A basin-hop** search strategy has been used to determine likely candidates for low-
energy Rh n S0,±(n= 1–9) cluster structures. Cluster structures were optimized at the density …