scholarly journals First-principles analysis of the stability of water on oxidised and reduced CuO(111) surfaces

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (89) ◽  
pp. 56721-56731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Fronzi ◽  
Michael Nolan

A first-principles density functional theory investigation, with the inclusion of the Hubbard + U correction (PBE + U) on Cu-3d states, on the interaction of water with a CuO(111) surface.

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (38) ◽  
pp. 23477-23490
Author(s):  
Yonggang Wu ◽  
Jihua Zhang ◽  
Bingwei Long ◽  
Hong Zhang

The ZnWO4 (010) surface termination stability is studied using a density functional theory-based thermodynamic approach. The stability phase diagram shows that O-Zn, DL-W, and DL-Zn terminations of ZnWO4 (010) can be stabilized.


Author(s):  
Omar Elkedim ◽  
Liwu Huang ◽  
David Bassir

The substitutional doping of Mn and Ti in Mg2Ni phase has been investigated by first principles density functional theory calculations. The calculation of enthalpy of formation shows that among the four different lattice sites of Mg(6f), Mg(6i), Ni(3b) and Ni(3d) in Mg2Ni unit cell, the most preferable site of substitution of Mn in Mg2Ni lattice has been confirmed to be Mg(6i) lattice site. The most preferable site of Ti substitution in Mg2Ni lattice is Mg(6i) position and the stability of Ti-doped Mg2Ni decreases with the increase of substitution quantity of Ti for Mg.


2016 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 250-255
Author(s):  
Nassim Boudalia ◽  
Jean Marc Raulot ◽  
Etienne Patoor ◽  
Claude Esling

Shape memory alloys (SMA) have been at the forefront of research in recent years. They have been used for a wide variety of applications in various fields. This work presents a brief study at the atomic scale of Cu-Al based Shape Memory Alloys. Using first-principles Density Functional Theory (DFT) method, the stability of different austenitic and martensitic phases of Cu3Al, the effect of intrinsic vacancies, the doping effect by an element X (X = Be, Zn, Ti, Ni, Ag and Au) have been studied.


2015 ◽  
Vol 817 ◽  
pp. 690-697
Author(s):  
Yong Hua Duan ◽  
Yong Sun ◽  
Ming Jun Peng

The stability and electronic properties of Mg2Pb (100), (110) and (111) surfaces were investigated by using the first-principles density functional theory (DFT) method. The calculated results showed that the orders of relaxation and surface energy are |∆d15(111)| < |∆d15(110)| < |∆d15(100)| andEsurf(100) >Esurf(110) >Esurf(111), respectively, indicating that Mg2Pb (111) surface is the most stable among these three low index surfaces. The Density of states (DOS) of Mg2Pb surfaces are mainly dominated by Pb-6, Mg-3s, and 2porbitals in the band ranging from-5 eV to Fermi level. It can be further obtained from results of the DOS and the charge density difference that Mg2Pb (111) surface is more stable than Mg2Pb (100) and (110) surfaces. The Mg2Pb (111) surface is the thermodynamically most favorable over all of the range of.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (48) ◽  
pp. 32626-32635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurin H. Rawal ◽  
William C. McKee ◽  
Ye Xu

The stability of molecular superoxide species can be materially affected by the presence of an interfacial electric field and solvent molecules, which needs to be taken into account in the first-principles modeling of oxygen reduction by metals and other related electrode reactions.


2020 ◽  
pp. 2150007
Author(s):  
XIAOHUA YU ◽  
HUIXIA SUN ◽  
GUIRONG SHAO

Using plane-wave ultrasoft pseudopotential method based on first-principles density functional theory (DFT), the adsorption of Cs atom on As-rich GaAs(001)[Formula: see text]([Formula: see text]) reconstruction phase and Ga-rich GaAs(001)([Formula: see text]) reconstruction phase are investigated. The adsorption energy, work function, dipole moment, ionicity, band structure and density of state (DOS) of Cs adsorbed GaAs [Formula: see text]([Formula: see text]) and ([Formula: see text]) models are calculated. The stability and electronic structure of Cs adsorbed GaAs [Formula: see text]([Formula: see text]) and ([Formula: see text]) models are compared. Result shows that [Formula: see text]([Formula: see text]) phase is stable than the ([Formula: see text]) phase and after that Cs adsorption [Formula: see text]([Formula: see text]) phase is more beneficial for photoemission.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (34) ◽  
pp. 22210-22216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline J. Rupp ◽  
Sudip Chakraborty ◽  
Rajeev Ahuja ◽  
Rogério J. Baierle

Spin polarized density functional theory within the GGA–PBE and HSE06 approach for the exchange correlation term has been used to investigate the stability and electronic properties of nitrogen and boron impurities in single layers of silicane and germanane.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (22) ◽  
pp. 16774-16779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Sha ◽  
Fubo Tian ◽  
Da Li ◽  
Defang Duan ◽  
Binhua Chu ◽  
...  

We perform first-principles density functional theory calculations to examine the stability of nitrogen-doped wurtzite ZnO under pressure.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (91) ◽  
pp. 88392-88402 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Olaniyan ◽  
R. E. Mapasha ◽  
D. Y. Momodu ◽  
M. J. Madito ◽  
A. A. Kahleed ◽  
...  

First principles density functional theory calculations have been performed to explore the stability, structural and electronic properties of Be and S co-doped graphene sheets.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Pedersen ◽  
Björn Alling ◽  
Hans Högberg ◽  
Annop Ektarawong

Thin films of boron nitride (BN), particularly the sp<sup>2</sup>-hybridized polytypes hexagonal BN (h-BN) and rhombohedral BN (r-BN) are interesting for several electronic applications given band gaps in the UV. They are typically deposited close to thermal equilibrium by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at temperatures and pressures in the regions 1400-1800 K and 1000-10000 Pa, respectively. In this letter, we use van der Waals corrected density functional theory and thermodynamic stability calculations to determine the stability of r-BN and compare it to that of h-BN as well as to cubic BN and wurtzitic BN. We find that r-BN is the stable sp<sup>2</sup>-hybridized phase at CVD conditions, while h-BN is metastable. Thus, our calculations suggest that thin films of h-BN must be deposited far from thermal equilibrium.


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