First-principles study of phase stability, electronic and mechanical properties of plutonium sub-oxides

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (30) ◽  
pp. 16818-16829 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Ghosh ◽  
A. Arya

Formation energies of PuO2, α-Pu2O3 and sub-oxides PuO2−x (0.0 < x < 0.5) are determined using density functional theory employing generalised gradient approximation corrected with an effective Hubbard parameter.

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (45) ◽  
pp. 36022-36029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panpan Zhang ◽  
Zengsheng Ma ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Youlan Zou ◽  
Weixin Lei ◽  
...  

Focusing on the failure mechanism of active materials during charging–discharging, the mechanical properties of Li–Sn alloys are studied by density functional theory, including elastic moduli, Poisson's ratio, anisotropy, and brittleness-ductility.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lanjuan Zhou ◽  
Sujing Yu ◽  
Yan Yang ◽  
Qi Li ◽  
Tingting Li ◽  
...  

In this paper, the effects of five noble metals (Au, Pt, Pd, Ag, Ru) doped MoSe2 on improving gas sensing performance were predicted through density functional theory (DFT) based on...


Author(s):  
Wei-Feng Xie ◽  
Hao-Ran Zhu ◽  
Shi-Hao Wei

The structural evolutions and electronic properties of Au$_l$Pt$_m$ ($l$+$m$$\leqslant$10) clusters are investigated by using the first$-$principles methods based on density functional theory (DFT). We use Inverse design of materials by...


Author(s):  
Yogeshwaran Krishnan ◽  
Sateesh Bandaru ◽  
Niall J. English

A series of transition-metal-doped Fe1−xMxCo(PO4)4(010) and Fe3Co1−xMx(PO4)4(010) electro-catalyst surfaces (with M = Mn, Os, Ru, Rh and Ir) have been modelled via density-functional theory (DFT) to gauge their oxygen-evolution reactions (OER).


2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (27) ◽  
pp. 14096-14107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhaskar Chilukuri ◽  
Ursula Mazur ◽  
K. W. Hipps

Implication of dispersion interactions on geometric, adsorption and electronic properties of porphyrin monolayer on conductive surfaces using density functional theory.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 3825-3832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsung-Fan Teng ◽  
Santhanamoorthi Nachimuthu ◽  
Wei-Hsiu Hung ◽  
Jyh-Chiang Jiang

We employed density functional theory (DFT) calculations to examine the adsorption configurations and possible reaction paths for H2S on a Ge(100) surface.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (31) ◽  
pp. 20677-20683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aamir Shafique ◽  
Abdus Samad ◽  
Young-Han Shin

Using density functional theory, we systematically investigate the lattice thermal conductivity and carrier mobility of monolayer SnX2(X = S, Se).


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (115) ◽  
pp. 95353-95359 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Rai ◽  
A. Shankar ◽  
Sandeep Sandeep ◽  
M. P. Ghimire ◽  
R. Khenata ◽  
...  

A density functional theory (DFT) approach employing generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and the modified Becke Johnson (TB-mBJ) potential has been used to study the electronic and thermoelectric (TE) properties of ZrxHf1−x−yTayNiSn.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 7941-7949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naeem Shahzad ◽  
Akhtar Hussain ◽  
Naeem Mustafa ◽  
Nisar Ali ◽  
Mohammed Benali Kanoun ◽  
...  

Adsorption and dissociation mechanisms of H2S on a TiO2(001) surface were elucidated using first principles calculation based on the density functional theory.


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