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  • Open Access
7 Citations
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DFT and TD-DFT Study of the Chemical Effect in the SERS Spectra of Piperidine Adsorbed on Silver Colloidal Nanoparticles

  • Francesco Muniz-Miranda,
  • Alfonso Pedone,
  • Maria Cristina Menziani and
  • Maurizio Muniz-Miranda

24 August 2022

The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of piperidine adsorbed on silver/chloride colloids were studied by a combined density functional theory (DFT)/time dependent DFT (TD-DFT) approach. The mechanism of chemical enhancement on the Rama...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,271 Views
15 Pages

TAO-DFT with the Polarizable Continuum Model

  • Sonai Seenithurai and
  • Jeng-Da Chai

10 May 2023

For the ground-state properties of gas-phase nanomolecules with multi-reference character, thermally assisted occupation (TAO) density functional theory (DFT) has recently been found to outperform the widely used Kohn–Sham DFT when traditional exchan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,862 Views
8 Pages

We briefly present some of the most modern and outstanding non-conventional density-functional theory (DFT) methods, which have largely broadened the field of applications with respect to more traditional calculations. The results of these ongoing ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
500 Views
16 Pages

Optical and Vibrational Properties of AlN Nanoparticles with Different Geometries: A DFT and TD-DFT Study

  • Fotios I. Michos,
  • Christina Papaspiropoulou,
  • Nikos Aravantinos-Zafiris and
  • Michail M. Sigalas

21 November 2025

In this work, by using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) a comprehensive theoretical study on the structural, electronic, optical, and vibrational properties of aluminum nitride (AlxNx) nanoparticles (NPs) is presented....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,005 Views
12 Pages

15 January 2021

We investigate, using density functional theory (DFT), the electronic and conducting properties of benzenediamine connected to gold electrodes via different tip structures. We examine a series of binding motifs to the electrodes and calculate the jun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,270 Views
18 Pages

A Sparse Algorithm for Computing the DFT Using Its Real Eigenvectors

  • Rajesh Thomas,
  • Victor DeBrunner and
  • Linda S. DeBrunner

11 October 2021

Direct computation of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and its FFT computational algorithms requires multiplication (and addition) of complex numbers. Complex number multiplication requires four real-valued multiplications and two real-valued add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
950 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2025

Access to clean water is a pressing global concern and membrane technologies play a vital role in addressing this challenge. Thin-film composite membranes prepared via interfacial polymerization (IPol) using meta-phenylenediamine (MPD) and trimesoyl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,325 Views
17 Pages

π-Extended Boron Difluoride [NՈNBF2] Complex, Crystal Structure, Liquid NMR, Spectral, XRD/HSA Interactions: A DFT and TD-DFT Study

  • Abdulrahman A. Alsimaree,
  • Nawaf. I. Alsenani,
  • Omar Mutlaq Alatawi,
  • Abeer A. AlObaid,
  • Julian Gary Knight,
  • Mouslim Messali,
  • Abdelkader Zarrouk and
  • Ismail Warad

27 May 2021

The novel tetrahedral 10-(4-carboxyphenyl)-2,8-diethyl-5,5-difluoro-1,3,7,9-tetramethyl-5H-di-pyrrolo[1,2-c:2’,1’-f][1,3,2]diazaborinin-4-ium-5-uide [NՈNBF2] BODIPY complex was prepared in a very good yield and via one-pot synthesis. The desired [NՈN...

  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,733 Views
30 Pages

Periodic DFT Calculations—Review of Applications in the Pharmaceutical Sciences

  • Anna Helena Mazurek,
  • Łukasz Szeleszczuk and
  • Dariusz Maciej Pisklak

In the introduction to this review the complex chemistry of solid-state pharmaceutical compounds is summarized. It is also explained why the density functional theory (DFT) periodic calculations became recently so popular in studying the solid APIs (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,905 Views
19 Pages

FDSS-Based DFT-s-OFDM for 6G Wireless Sensing

  • Lu Chen,
  • Jianxiong Pan,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Junfeng Cheng,
  • Luyan Xu and
  • Neng Ye

29 January 2023

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is emerging as a key technology of 6G. Owing to the low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) property, discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) is helpful to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
143 Citations
15,000 Views
22 Pages

Extensive Benchmarking of DFT+U Calculations for Predicting Band Gaps

  • Nicole E. Kirchner-Hall,
  • Wayne Zhao,
  • Yihuang Xiong,
  • Iurii Timrov and
  • Ismaila Dabo

8 March 2021

Accurate computational predictions of band gaps are of practical importance to the modeling and development of semiconductor technologies, such as (opto)electronic devices and photoelectrochemical cells. Among available electronic-structure methods,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
12,028 Views
14 Pages

Predictions of Physicochemical Properties of Ionic Liquids with DFT

  • Karl Karu,
  • Anton Ruzanov,
  • Heigo Ers,
  • Vladislav Ivaništšev,
  • Isabel Lage-Estebanez and
  • José M. García de la Vega

Nowadays, density functional theory (DFT)-based high-throughput computational approach is becoming more efficient and, thus, attractive for finding advanced materials for electrochemical applications. In this work, we illustrate how theoretical model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,415 Views
13 Pages

29 July 2021

This article presents an efficient algorithm for computing a 10-point DFT. The proposed algorithm reduces the number of multiplications at the cost of a slight increase in the number of additions in comparison with the known algorithms. Using a 10-po...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,817 Views
17 Pages

Can DFT Calculations Provide Useful Information for SERS Applications?

  • Maurizio Muniz-Miranda,
  • Francesco Muniz-Miranda,
  • Maria Cristina Menziani and
  • Alfonso Pedone

6 January 2023

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations allow us to reproduce the SERS (surface-enhanced Raman scattering) spectra of molecules adsorbed on nanostructured metal surfaces and extract the most information this spectroscopy is potentially able to p...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,255 Views
6 Pages

Broadband DOA Estimation by Exploiting DFT Extrapolation

  • Euiho Shin,
  • Young-seek Chung,
  • Seonkyo Kim,
  • Cheolsun Park and
  • Jungsuek Oh

3 January 2023

This study proposes broadband direction (DOA) estimation through discrete Fourier transform (DFT) extrapolation. We used DFT extrapolation in the lower band and extended the sampled data to reduce the beam width in the spectral domain and improved th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,097 Views
17 Pages

9 November 2022

The reliable prediction of electronic properties associated with graphene nanosystems can be challenging for conventional electronic structure methods, such as Kohn–Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT), due to the presence of strong static...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,078 Views
13 Pages

Ionization of Decamethylmanganocene: Insights from the DFT-Assisted Laser Spectroscopy

  • Sergey Ketkov,
  • Sheng-Yuan Tzeng,
  • Elena Rychagova and
  • Wen-Bih Tzeng

22 September 2022

Metallocenes represent one of the most important classes of organometallics with wide prospects for practical use in various fields of chemistry, materials science, molecular electronics, and biomedicine. Many applications of these metal complexes ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,846 Views
21 Pages

Studies on Rhodanine Derivatives for Estimation of Chemical Reactivity Parameters by DFT

  • Eleonora-Mihaela Ungureanu,
  • Cornelia Elena Musina (Borsaru),
  • Ovidiu-Teodor Matica,
  • Raluca Isopescu,
  • Gabriela Stanciu and
  • Amalia Stefaniu

16 March 2025

Chemically modified electrodes based on derivatives of 2-thioxothiazolidin-4-one were mentioned as possible solutions for heavy metal (HM) ions heterogeneous recognition. Such ligands form thin films with reversible responses in the ferrocene redox p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,836 Views
28 Pages

16 December 2021

Recently, mono- and dinuclear complexes have been in the interest of scientists due to their potential application in optoelectronics. Herein, progressive theoretical investigations starting from mononuclear followed by homo- and heterometallic dinuc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,099 Views
17 Pages

23 September 2022

Synchrophasor estimation was mostly used in transmission systems in the past, and it is difficult to directly apply an existing synchrophasor algorithm to a distribution system with a more complex structure and environment. A synchrophasor estimation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,574 Views
12 Pages

The electronic absorption spectra, ground-state geometries and electronic structures of symmetric and asymmetric squaraine dyes (SQD1–SQD4) were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent (TD-DFT) density functional theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,454 Views
9 Pages

Sildenafil–Resorcinol Cocrystal: XRPD Structure and DFT Calculations

  • Rafael Barbas,
  • Vineet Kumar,
  • Oriol Vallcorba,
  • Rafel Prohens and
  • Antonio Frontera

10 December 2020

Herein, the X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) crystal structure of a new Sildenafil cocrystal is reported, where resorcinol has been used as the coformer. The crystal structure has been solved by means of direct space methods used in combination with d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,732 Views
14 Pages

CO2 Absorption on Cu-Doped Graphene, a DFT Study

  • Juan Oseas López Fuentes,
  • Roxana Mitzayé del Castillo Vázquez and
  • Juan Manuel Ramirez-de-Arellano

14 May 2025

We studied the interaction between a Cu-doped graphene layer and a CO2 molecule, using DFT, ab initio calculations, and the pseudopotential formalism. We used the Quantum ESPRESSO code package, with the PBE XC functional expression and the semiempiri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,484 Views
11 Pages

Accurate Frequency Estimator for Real Sinusoid Based on DFT

  • Zhanhong Liu,
  • Lei Fan,
  • Jinyu Liu,
  • Nian Liu,
  • Jiyu Jin and
  • Jun Xing

24 September 2022

An accurate frequency estimator for real sinusoid based on Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is proposed. The proposed estimator is based on the interpolation of the maximum DFT spectral line and two Discrete-Time Fourier Transform (DTFT) spectral lin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,196 Views
10 Pages

Prediction of Partition Coefficients in SDS Micelles by DFT Calculations

  • Leila Saranjam,
  • Elisabet Fuguet,
  • Miroslava Nedyalkova,
  • Vasil Simeonov,
  • Francesc Mas and
  • Sergio Madurga

19 September 2021

A computational methodology using Density-Functional Theory (DFT) calculations was developed to determine the partition coefficient of a compound in a solution of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS) micelles. Different sets of DFT calculations were used to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
104 Citations
14,136 Views
20 Pages

Application of DFT Calculations in Designing Polymer-Based Drug Delivery Systems: An Overview

  • Oluwasegun Chijioke Adekoya,
  • Gbolahan Joseph Adekoya,
  • Emmanuel Rotimi Sadiku,
  • Yskandar Hamam and
  • Suprakas Sinha Ray

Drug delivery systems transfer medications to target locations throughout the body. These systems are often made up of biodegradable and bioabsorbable polymers acting as delivery components. The introduction of density functional theory (DFT) has tre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,367 Views
31 Pages

DFT Investigations of the Magnetic Properties of Actinide Complexes

  • Lotfi Belkhiri,
  • Boris Le Guennic and
  • Abdou Boucekkine

Over the past 25 years, magnetic actinide complexes have been the object of considerable attention, not only at the experimental level, but also at the theoretical one. Such systems are of great interest, owing to the well-known larger spin–orb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,090 Views
17 Pages

Polynomial Cancellation Coded DFT-s-OFDM for Low-PAPR Uplink Signaling

  • Li Cho,
  • Yu-Ming Kuo,
  • Yi-Shin Wu and
  • Chau-Yun Hsu

14 November 2019

The physical layer signaling of the 5G new radio still utilizes cyclic prefix orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CP-OFDM) and discrete Fourier transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) to support 5G services for the sake of system-backward compatib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,363 Views
15 Pages

The TDDFT Excitation Energies of the BODIPYs; The DFT and TDDFT Challenge Continues

  • Adrien Schlachter,
  • Alexandre Fleury,
  • Kevin Tanner,
  • Armand Soldera,
  • Benoit Habermeyer,
  • Roger Guilard and
  • Pierre D. Harvey

22 March 2021

The derivatives of 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (BODIPY) are pivotal ingredients for a large number of functional, stimuli-responsive materials and therapeutic molecules based on their photophysical properties, and there is a urgent nee...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,254 Views
7 Pages

DFT Characteristics of Charge Transport in DBTP-Based Hole Transport Materials

  • Ming Qiu,
  • Weiwei Pei,
  • Qiuchen Lu,
  • Zhuo Li,
  • Yuanzuo Li and
  • Jianping Liang

31 May 2019

To improve the hole-transport ability and photoelectric properties of perovskite solar cells, the ground-state geometry, frontier molecular orbital, and mobility of two organic molecules were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) with th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,307 Views
6 Pages

Investigation of the Interaction between Benzene and SXFA Using DFT

  • Katherine M. E. Stewart,
  • Ian P. Hamilton and
  • Alexander Penlidis

25 January 2018

Density Functional Theory (DFT) studies were conducted to evaluate the sensing mechanism between benzene and a polymeric sensing material, referred to as SXFA, which contains trifluoro-groups and OH-groups. These studies were undertaken to improve th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,400 Views
22 Pages

26 December 2003

Fundamental molecular issues in lubrication chemistry were reviewed under categories of solution chemistry, contact chemistry and tribochemistry. By introducing the Density Functional Theory(DFT)-derived chemical reactivity parameters (chemical poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,036 Views
18 Pages

29 August 2023

The photophysical properties of Cu(II) complexes with 5,10,15,20-meso-tetrakis(phenyl)porphyrin and 5,10,15,20-meso-tetrakis(N-methylpyridium-4-yl)porphyrin are examined via the luminescence and femtosecond time-resolved absorbance methods, respectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,205 Views
13 Pages

Rotational Barriers in N-Benzhydrylformamides: An NMR and DFT Study

  • Madina Zh. Sadvakassova,
  • Andrei I. Khlebnikov,
  • Abdigali A. Bakibaev,
  • Oleg A. Kotelnikov,
  • Rakhmetulla Sh. Erkassov,
  • Madeniyet A. Yelubay and
  • Manar A. Issabayeva

5 January 2023

N-Benzhydrylformamides are pharmacologically active compounds with anticonvulsant, enzyme-inducing, antihypoxic, and other types of biological activity. The conformational behavior of benzhydrylformamides is determined to a great extent by the presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,568 Views
12 Pages

29 August 2021

Accurate prediction of properties of large-scale multi-reference (MR) electronic systems remains difficult for traditional computational methods (e.g., the Hartree–Fock theory and Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT)). Recently, thermally-assist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,246 Views
14 Pages

One useful technique for increasing the efficiency of organic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) is to extend the π-conjugated bridges between the donor (D) and the acceptor (A) units. The present study used the DFT and TD–DFT techniques to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
17,130 Views
20 Pages

Modelling Catalyst Surfaces Using DFT Cluster Calculations

  • Izabela Czekaj,
  • Jörg Wambach and
  • Oliver Kröcher

30 September 2009

We review our recent theoretical DFT cluster studies of a variety of industrially relevant catalysts such as TiO2, γ-Al2O3, V2O5-WO3-TiO2 and Ni/Al2O3. Aspects of the metal oxide surface structure and the stability and structure of metal clusters on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
14,385 Views
8 Pages

A TD-DFT Study on the Photo-Physicochemical Properties of Chrysophanol from Rheum

  • Xue Zhao,
  • Zebao Zheng,
  • Shuai Feng,
  • Zhiqiang Shi and
  • Dezhan Chen

13 July 2009

As a naturally occurring anthraquinone pigment, chrysophanol (MHAQ) has attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to its efficient photosensitivity under the solar spectrum. Considering the successful use of time-dependent density functi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,954 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2023

Many areas of electronics, engineering and manufacturing rely on ferromagnetic materials, including iron, nickel and cobalt. Very few other materials have an innate magnetic moment rather than induced magnetic properties, which are more common. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,890 Views
13 Pages

In this work, discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based channel estimation is proposed in generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) system. In the GFDM system, the subcarriers are non-orthogonal; therefore, the pilot symbols cannot be easily ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,326 Views
24 Pages

DFT-D3 and TD-DFT Studies of the Adsorption and Sensing Behavior of Mn-Phthalocyanine toward NH3, PH3, and AsH3 Molecules

  • Heba Mohamed Badran,
  • Khaled Mahmoud Eid,
  • Hatim Omar Al-Nadary and
  • Hussein Youssef Ammar

This study employs density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP/6-311+g(d,p) level to investigate the interaction of XH3 gases (X = N, P, As) with the Mn-phthalocyanine molecule (MnPc). Grimme’s D3 dispersion correction is applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,735 Views
16 Pages

14 August 2023

Roll eccentricity disturbance is a high-frequency periodic change signal caused by the irregular shape of the roll and roll bearing, which is difficult to identify and affects the periodic deviation of the exit thickness of the strip. To achieve rapi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,881 Views
17 Pages

Stability of Hydroxo/Oxo/Fluoro Zirconates vs. Hafniates—A DFT Study

  • Jennifer Anders,
  • Fabian Göritz,
  • Anselm Loges,
  • Timm John and
  • Beate Paulus

13 December 2022

We performed density functional theory (DFT) calculations on binary and ternary oxo/fluoro crystals of the geochemical twin pair zirconium and hafnium to evaluate and compare their stabilities. This is the first DFT study on bulk ZrF4 or HfF4, as wel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,545 Views
12 Pages

25 November 2016

The electronic geometries and optical properties of two D-π-A type zinc porphyrin dyes (NCH3-YD2 and TPhe-YD) were systematically investigated by density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) to reveal the orig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,218 Views
13 Pages

DFT Study on the Mechanism of Iron-Catalyzed Diazocarbonylation

  • Tímea R. Kégl,
  • László Kollár and
  • Tamás Kégl

11 December 2020

The mechanism of the carbonylation of diazomethane in the presence of iron–carbonyl–phosphine catalysts has been investigated by means of DFT calculations at the M06/def-TZVP//B97D3/def2-TZVP level of theory, in combination with the SMD s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,908 Views
16 Pages

4,6-Dichloro-5-Nitrobenzofuroxan: Different Polymorphisms and DFT Investigation of Its Reactivity with Nucleophiles

  • Elena Chugunova,
  • Nurgali Akylbekov,
  • Alexey Dobrynin,
  • Alexander Burilov,
  • Carla Boga,
  • Gabriele Micheletti,
  • Vincenzo Frenna,
  • Edoardo Jun Mattioli,
  • Matteo Calvaresi and
  • Domenico Spinelli

15 December 2021

This research focuses on the X-ray structure of 4,6-dichloro-5-nitrobenzofuroxan 1 and of some of its amino derivatives (4a, 4e, 4g, and 4l) and on DFT calculations concerning the nucleophilic reactivity of 1. We have found that by changing the solve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
10,166 Views
11 Pages

Design, Synthesis, DFT Study and Antifungal Activity of Pyrazolecarboxamide Derivatives

  • Jin-Xia Mu,
  • Yan-Xia Shi,
  • Ming-Yan Yang,
  • Zhao-Hui Sun,
  • Xing-Hai Liu,
  • Bao-Ju Li and
  • Na-Bo Sun

A series of novel pyrazole amide derivatives were designed and synthesized by multi-step reactions from phenylhydrazine and ethyl 3-oxobutanoate as starting materials, and their structures were characterized by NMR, MS and elemental analysis. The ant...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,198 Views
38 Pages

22 June 2025

Corrosion poses a critical challenge to the durability and performance of metals and alloys, particularly steel, with significant economic, environmental, and safety implications. The corrosion susceptibility of steel is influenced by aggressive chem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,024 Views
15 Pages

The Effect of Conjugated Nitrile Structures as Acceptor Moieties on the Photovoltaic Properties of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: DFT and TD-DFT Investigation

  • Maha J. Tommalieh,
  • Abdulaziz I. Aljameel,
  • Rageh K. Hussein,
  • Khalled Al-heuseen,
  • Suzan K. Alghamdi and
  • Sharif Abu Alrub

A major challenge in improving the overall efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells is improving the optoelectronic properties of small molecule acceptors. This work primarily investigated the effects of conjugation in nitriles incorporated as accept...

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