Endohedrally doped cage clusters

J Zhao, Q Du, S Zhou, V Kumar - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

Flexibilities of wavelets as a computational basis set for large-scale electronic structure calculations

LE Ratcliff, W Dawson, G Fisicaro, D Caliste… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The BigDFT project was started in 2005 with the aim of testing the advantages of using a
Daubechies wavelet basis set for Kohn–Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) with …

B 38: an all-boron fullerene analogue

J Lv, Y Wang, L Zhu, Y Ma - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerene-like structures formed by elements other than carbon have long been sought.
Finding all-boron (B) fullerene-like structures is challenging due to the geometrical …

First theoretical framework of superalkali metals [M3X (M= Li, Na, k; X= O, S, F, N)] doped all-boron B38 nanocluster: A promising class of nonlinear optical materials …

MU Khan, MRSA Janjua, J Yaqoob, R Hussain… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Develo** highly efficient nonlinear optical (NLO) materials is an area of frontier research.
For the first time, all-boron fullerene analogue B38 nanocluster is utilized for creating highly …

Energy landscape of fullerene materials: a comparison of boron to boron nitride and carbon

S De, A Willand, M Amsler, P Pochet, L Genovese… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
Using the minima hop** global geometry optimization method on the density functional
potential energy surface we show that the energy landscape of boron clusters is glasslike …

Unfolding the fullerene: nanotubes, graphene and poly‐elemental varieties by simulations

ES Penev, VI Artyukhov, F Ding… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research progress in nanostructured carbon has built upon and yet advanced far
from the studies of more conventional carbon forms such as diamond, graphite, and perhaps …

B80 and B101–103 clusters: Remarkable stability of the core-shell structures established by validated density functionals

F Li, P **, D Jiang, L Wang, SB Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
B80 and B101–103 clusters: Remarkable stability of the core-shell structures established by
validated density functionalsa) | The Journal of Chemical Physics | AIP Publishing Skip to Main …

Predicting experimentally stable allotropes: Instability of penta-graphene

CP Ewels, X Rocquefelte, HW Kroto… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
In recent years, a plethora of theoretical carbon allotropes have been proposed, none of
which has been experimentally isolated. We discuss here criteria that should be met for a …

Stabilization of fullerene-like boron cages by transition metal encapsulation

J Lv, Y Wang, L Zhang, H Lin, J Zhao, Y Ma - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The stabilization of fullerene-like boron (B) cages in the free-standing form has been long
sought after and a challenging problem. Studies that have been carried out for more than a …

Optimized energy landscape exploration using the ab initio based activation-relaxation technique

E Machado-Charry, LK Béland, D Caliste… - The Journal of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Unbiased open-ended methods for finding transition states are powerful tools to understand
diffusion and relaxation mechanisms associated with defect diffusion, growth processes, and …