Mechanistic insight into H2-mediated Ni surface diffusion and deposition to form branched Ni nanocrystals: a theoretical study

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (41) ◽  
pp. 23869-23877
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Ning Liu ◽  
Chengna Dai ◽  
Ruinian Xu ◽  
Bin Wu ◽  
...  

Present work investigates the kinetic role of H2 during Ni surface diffusion and deposition to generate branched Ni nanostructures by employing density functional theory (DFT) calculations and ab initio molecule dynamic (AIMD) simulations.

Author(s):  
Xiaoqian He ◽  
Lei Zhu ◽  
Dan Heng ◽  
Fenru Liu ◽  
Shihan Liu ◽  
...  

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been performed to provide mechanistic insight into the Rh/Cu co-catalyzed multicomponent annulation of indoles, diazo compounds, and α,β-unsaturated esters.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (28) ◽  
pp. 23265-23271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Liu ◽  
Xiao-Wen Zheng ◽  
Ling-Li Han ◽  
Ya-Ping Li ◽  
Shu-Min Han ◽  
...  

A density functional theory (DFT) study was performed to understand detailed mechanisms for the Rh(iii)-catalyzed coupling reaction of phenylnitrone with diphenylacetylene in different reaction conditions.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinpeng Zhao ◽  
Zhimin Zhou ◽  
hu luo ◽  
Yanfei Zhang ◽  
Wang Liu ◽  
...  

Combined experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations provided insights into the role of the environment-friendly γ-valerolactone (GVL) as a solvent in the hydrothermal conversion of glucose into lactic acid...


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 2728-2739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Liu ◽  
Mengting Yu ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Bo Hou ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
...  

The adsorption configurations, growth modes and morphology of a Ru promoter under the approximate conditions of cobalt catalyzed Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS) were investigated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations.


Author(s):  
Xuexiang Ma ◽  
Aili Feng ◽  
Chengbu Liu ◽  
Dongju Zhang

Density functional theory calculations were performed on a prototype of three-component reactions involving aryl iodides, 2,6-substituted aryl bromides, and acrylates to understand the construction of axially chiral biaryls through the...


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 5249-5254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuting Liu ◽  
Xiaofang Su ◽  
Wei Guan ◽  
Likai Yan

In this work, the mechanism of water oxidation catalyzed by an Ru-based complex [Ru(L)]+ (L = 5,5-chelated 2-carboxy-phen, 2,2′;6′,2′′-terpyridine) was studied by density functional theory (DFT) calculations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1631-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Teh Chen ◽  
Francisco J. Martin-Martinez ◽  
Gang Seob Jung ◽  
Markus J. Buehler

A set of computational methods that contains a brute-force algorithmic generation of chemical isomers, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations is reported and applied to investigate nearly 3000 probable molecular structures of polydopamine (PDA) and eumelanin.


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