A DFT study of a new class of gold nanocluster-photochrome multi-functional switches

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (47) ◽  
pp. 26240-26251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaud Fihey ◽  
François Maurel ◽  
Aurélie Perrier

The structural and electronic properties of dithienylethene photochromic molecules grafted onto a Au25 nanocluster are reviewed and electron/energy transfers are discussed with the help of (TD-)DFT calculations.

2014 ◽  
Vol 97 (12) ◽  
pp. 4011-4018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe A. La Porta ◽  
Lourdes Gracia ◽  
Juan Andrés ◽  
Júlio R. Sambrano ◽  
Jose A. Varela ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankush Bharti ◽  
Pooja Kapoor ◽  
Munish Sharma ◽  
Raman Sharma ◽  
P. K. Ahluwalia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Imran ◽  
Muhammad Jawwad Saif ◽  
Tahir Farooq ◽  
Javed Iqbal

Thiols are efficient capping agents used for the synthesis of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. Commonly, long-chain thiols are used as passivating agents to provide stabilization to nanoparticles. Theoretical methods rarely reported aromatic thiol ligands’ effects on small-sized CdTe quantum dots’ structural and electronic properties. We have studied and compared the structural and electronic properties of (i) bare and (ii) aromatic thiols (thiophenol, 4-methoxybenzenethiol, 4-mercaptobenzonitrile, and 4-mercaptobenzoic acid) capped CdnTen quantum dots (QDs). Aromatic thiols are used as thiol-radical because of the higher tendency of thiol-radicals to bind with Cd atoms. This work provides an understanding of how the capping agents affect specific properties. The results show that all aromatic thiol-radical ligands caused significant structural distortion in the geometries. The aromatic thiol-radical ligands stabilize LUMOs, stabilize or destabilize HOMOs, and decrease HOMO-LUMO gaps for all the capped QDs. The stabilization of LUMOs is more pronounced than the destabilization of HOMOs. We also studied the effect of solvent on structural and electronic properties. TD-DFT calculations were performed to calculate the absorption spectra of bare and capped QDs, and all the capping ligands resulted in the redshift of absorption spectra.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caio Vinícius Caetano ◽  
Silvete Guerini ◽  
Augusto César Azevedo Silva ◽  
Jaldyr de Jesus Gomes Varela Júnior

Transition from semiconducting to metallic state in gallium phosphide nanotubes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (36) ◽  
pp. 14377-14389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douniazed Hannachi ◽  
Mohamed Fahim Haroun ◽  
Ahlem Khireddine ◽  
Henry Chermette

DFT calculations of electronic, structural, thermodynamic properties, magnetic moment, static and dynamic polarizability and hyperpolarizability of Ln(Tp)2 (Ln = rare earths, Tp = ring-unsubstituted tris(pyrazolyl)borate) complexes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (32) ◽  
pp. 17729-17739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Pifer Coleone ◽  
Leonardo Gois Lascane ◽  
Augusto Batagin-Neto

DFT calculations were used to evaluate the effect of side groups on the structural, optical and electronic properties of 3-substituted PPy derivatives. Simple relationships between the optoelectronic properties and Hammet parameters are proposed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (35) ◽  
pp. 19011-19025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Engel ◽  
Samantha Francis ◽  
Alberto Roldan

This study investigates the effect of commonly used support materials (MgO, C, CeO2) on small gold particles using dispersion corrected density functional theory (DFT-D).


ACS Omega ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 14369-14377
Author(s):  
Camila R. Ferreira ◽  
Sandra H. Pulcinelli ◽  
Luisa Scolfaro ◽  
Pablo D. Borges

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