The introduction of nanoscale features brings with it a high density of surface interface boundaries and effectively introduces an additional boundary material that exhibits properties different from the surrounding surfaces. We systematically varied the feature size of self-assembled polystyrene-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) copolymer nanopatterns from 13 to 200 nm and demonstrated that the ...

We have performed periodic density functional and periodic local MP2 calculations for the adsorption of hydrogen fluoride and water on the four low index surfaces (001), (100), (101) and (110) of magnesium fluoride. While the adsorption of HF is described well using B3LYP, MP2 is required for a good description of the adsorption of H2O. Post-optimization dispersion corrections of B3LYP are foun...

objective(s): first-principles calculations have been carried out to investigate the interaction of aspirin molecule with nitrogen-doped tio2 anatase nanoparticles using the density functional theory method in order to fully exploit the biosensing capabilities of tio2 particles. methods: for this purpose, we have mainly studied the adsorption of the aspirin molecule on the fivefold coordinated ...

The results of ab initio density functional theory calculations of molecular physisorption on a number of different adsorption sites on a graphene sheet and on a (10, 0) single walled carbon nanotube are discussed. Both the Vosko-Wilk-Nusair (VWN) local density approximation (LDA) functional and the Perdew-Wang (PW91) generalized gradient approximation (GGA) functional were employed in calculat...

Density functional theory (DFT) and Fourth-order Möller-Plesset (MP4) perturbation theory calculations are performed to examine the possibility of hydrogen storage in V-capped VC(3)H(3) complex. Stability of bare and H(2) molecules adsorbed V-capped VC(3)H(3) complex is verified using DFT and MP4 method. Thermo-chemistry calculations are carried out to estimate the Gibbs free corrected averaged...

first-principle calculations were carried out to investigate the adsorption of co over cun nanoclusters. the structural, spectroscopic and electronic properties like optimized geometries, homo (highest occupied molecular orbital) and lumo (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) energy levels, binding energy, adsorption energy, vibrational frequency and density of states (doss) of the pure cun nan...

Crotonaldehyde (2-butenal) adsorption over gold sub-nanometer particles, and the influence of co-adsorbed oxygen, has been systematically investigated by computational methods. Using density functional theory, the adsorption energetics of crotonaldehyde on bare and oxidised gold clusters (Au13, d = 0.8 nm) were determined as a function of oxygen coverage and coordination geometry. At low oxygen...

Polynucleotide adsorption to negatively charged surfaces via divalent ions is extensively used in the study of biological systems. We analyze here the adsorption mechanism via a self-consistent mean-field model that includes the pH effect on the surface-charge density and the interactions between divalent ions and surface groups. The adsorption is driven by the cooperative effect of divalent me...

This research article deals with an electrosynthesis of hydrous titanium dioxide by anodic dissolution of titanium sacrificial anodes and their application for the adsorption of manganese from aqueous solution. Titanium sheet was used as the sacrificial anode and galvanized iron sheet was used as the cathode. The optimization of different experimental parameters like initial ion concentration, ...

core flooding experiments were conducted with the objective of evaluating near miscible surfactant alternating co2 injection and the effect of surfactant concentrations on gas-oil and water displacements in porous media. the core samples were provided from a low permeability mixed wet oil reservoir at 156 °f and 1900 psia. in addition, very few studies of surfactant adsorption on carbonate mine...