scholarly journals Stability of Coinage Metals Interacting with C60

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navaratnarajah Kuganathan ◽  
Ratnasothy Srikaran ◽  
Alexander Chroneos

Buckminsterfullerene (C60) has been advocated as a perfect candidate material for the encapsulation and adsorption of a variety of metals and the resultant metallofullerenes have been considered for the use in different scientific, technological and medical areas. Using spin-polarized density functional theory together with dispersion correction, we examine the stability and electronic structures of endohedral and exohedral complexes formed between coinage metals (Cu, Ag and Au) and both non-defective and defective C60. Encapsulation is exoergic in both forms of C60 and their encapsulation energies are almost the same. Exohedral adsorption of all three metals is stronger than that of endohedral encapsulation in the non-defective C60. Structures and the stability of atoms interacting with an outer surface of a defective C60 are also discussed. As the atoms are stable both inside and outside the C60, the resultant complexes can be of interest in different scientific and medical fields. Furthermore, all complexes exhibit magnetic moments, inferring that they can be used as spintronic materials.

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 760-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuguang Zhang ◽  
Ning Han ◽  
Xiaoyao Tan

Spin-polarized DFT calculations were used to investigate the atomic, electronic structures of LaCoO3and La1−xSrxCoO3surfaces. The thermodynamic stability of these surfaces was analyzed with phase diagrams. Influence of Sr-doping was also examined.


2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 359-369
Author(s):  
M. SAMAH ◽  
B. MOULA

The lowest-energy geometric and isomers of freestanding Co n clusters (n = 2 - 10) and their corresponding magnetic moments have been studied using the Siesta code based on pseudopotential density-functional theory. The calculated results show that there are many isomers near the ground state. Different isomers hold different magnetic moment. The stability study shows that among the investigated clusters, the hexamer one is the most stable and is the magic cluster. Dissociation channels energy are also studied.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1805
Author(s):  
Zhilue Wang ◽  
Shoujiang Qu ◽  
Hongping Xiang ◽  
Zhangzhen He ◽  
Jun Shen

The stability, physical properties, and electronic structures of Cr(NCN)2 were studied using density functional theory with explicit electronic correlation (GGA+U). The calculated results indicate that Cr(NCN)2 is a ferromagnetic and half-metal, both thermodynamically and elastically stable. A comparative study on the electronic structures of Cr(NCN)2 and CrO2 shows that the Cr atoms in both compounds are in one crystallographically equivalent site, with an ideal 4+ valence state. In CrO2, the Cr atoms at the corner and center sites have different magnetic moments and orbital occupancies, moreover, there is a large difference between the intra- (12.1 meV) and inter-chain (31.2 meV) magnetic couplings, which is significantly weakened by C atoms in Cr(NCN)2.


2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (06) ◽  
pp. 1450050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianguang Wang ◽  
Li Ma ◽  
Yanhua Liang ◽  
Meiling Gao ◽  
Guanghou Wang

Density functional theory calculations have been carried out to investigate 3d, Pd and Pt transition metal (TM) atoms exohedrally and endohedrally doped B 80 fullerene. We find that the most preferred doping site of the TM atom gradually moves from the outer surface ( TM = Sc ), to the inner surface ( TM = Ti and V ) and the center ( TM = Cr , Mn , Fe and Zn ), then to the outer surface ( TM = Co , Ni , Cu , Pd , and Pt ) again with the TM atom varying from Sc to Pt . From the formation energy calculations, we find that doping TM atom can further improve the stability of B 80 fullerene. The magnetic moments of doped V , Cr , Mn , Fe , Co and Ni atoms are reduced from their free-atom values and other TM atoms are completely quenched. Charge transfer and hybridization between 4s and 3d states of TM and 2s and 2p states of B were observed. The energy gaps of TM @ B 80 are usually smaller than that of the pure B 80. Endohedrally doped B 80 fullerene with two Mn and two Fe atoms were also considered, respectively. It is found that the antiferromagnetic (AFM) state is more energetically favorable than the ferromagnetic (FM) state for Mn 2- and Fe 2@ B 80. The Mn and Fe atoms carry the residual magnetic moments of ~ 3 μB and 2 μB in the AFM states.


2012 ◽  
Vol 542-543 ◽  
pp. 1418-1421
Author(s):  
Qing Xiang Gao ◽  
Lin Xu ◽  
Bo Wu

The spin-polarized generalized gradient approximation to the density functional theory is used to determine the geometries, stability, electronic structures, and magnetic properties of the Gd8O12cluster. Our work reveals that the ground state configuration of the Gd8O12cluster is a hexahedral cage structure with Cisymmetry. The electronic and magnetic properties imply that the formations of the ionic bonds between the adjacent Gd and O atoms result in the high stability of the Gd8O12cluster, which is due to the charge transfers between the Gd 5d, 6s electrons to O 2p orbital. It is also confirmed by the electron densities of HOMO-LUMO states. In addition, the analysis of the magnetic properties implies the total magnetic moments are mostly dominated by the Gd 4f orbital.


2011 ◽  
Vol 217-218 ◽  
pp. 924-929
Author(s):  
Jin Hong Xue ◽  
Jing Chao Chen ◽  
Jie Yu ◽  
Jing Feng ◽  
Yong Pan ◽  
...  

Ca3Ru2O7 is new tpye of thermoelectric materials.A theoretical study is presented for the stability, electronic and magnetic properties of three phases of this new thermoelectric materials in the framework of density functional theory (DFT). The calculated cohesive energy is -7.94eV/unit. AFM2 are less stable than other pahses. Electronic calculations indicate that Ca3Ru2O7 is metallic in nature. The covalent bonds in these structures are due to orbital overlap between p bands of O and d bands of Ru, and DOS at Fermi level are dominated by d bands of Ru. FM phase have obvious magnetic moments.


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.


2012 ◽  
Vol 519 ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
Tong Wei Li ◽  
La Chen ◽  
Yang Wang ◽  
Jin Cang Zhang

The electronic structures of the titanium-doped cubic perovskite ruthenates BaRu1-xTixO3 with x=0.125, 0.25, 0.375, 0.5, 0.625, 0.75, and 0.875 are investigated using the spin-polarized density functional theory within the pseudopotential plane wave method. It is found that a half-metallic phase appears in the 0.75- and 0.875-doped systems, and the origin of half-metallic property is the decrease of t2g bandwidth of Ru 4d states with the increase in x. In addition, the energy gap of BaRu0.25Ti0.75O3 is as large as 1.7 eV at the Fermi level in the up-spin density of states, which suggests a stable half-metallic phase can be obtained in the present systems.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (29) ◽  
pp. 19039-19044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeyuan Ni ◽  
Emi Minamitani ◽  
Yasunobu Ando ◽  
Satoshi Watanabe

For the first time by using the ab initio density functional theory, the stability and electronic structures of germanene on monolayer GaS, GaSe, GaTe and InSe have been investigated.


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