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26 June 2026

Ion-exchanged chabazites have wide applications in industry. In this study, dehydrated Be2+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, and Ba2+-exchanged chabazite sieves (CHA-M) were designed, which differ from some reported natural and hydrated chabazite mineral series. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Chemistry)
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56 Citations
3,716 Views
14 Pages

The structure property is the fundamental factor in determining the stability, adsorption, catalytic performance, and selectivity of microporous materials. Seven density functional approximations (DFAs) are used to simulate the crystal structure of m...

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2 Citations
601 Views
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27 February 2026

The photocatalytic degradation of the pharmaceutical compound nadolol over TiO2 under UV-LED irradiation was investigated, with particular emphasis on the inhibitory effects of common low-molecular-weight organic acids. Due to its aromatic (tetralin-...

(This article belongs to the Section Organometallic Chemistry)
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11 Citations
3,361 Views
14 Pages

15 October 2022

The behavior of the crystal structure of the zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-75 under pressure was studied by means of periodic density functional theory methods. Experimentally, it was shown that this material is tetragonal, space group I41/a at...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthesis and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs))
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34 Citations
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26 April 2024

The zeolite-catalyzed conversion of DME into chemicals is considered environmentally friendly in industry. The periodic density functional theory, statistical thermodynamics, and the transition state theory are used to study some possible parallel re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zeolites and Porous Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications)
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29 Citations
5,999 Views
14 Pages

Novel Polymorph of Favipiravir—An Antiviral Medication

  • Alexander S. Goloveshkin,
  • Alexander A. Korlyukov and
  • Anna V. Vologzhanina

Various solid forms of pharmaceutically important compounds exhibit different physical properties and bioactivity; thus, knowledge of the structural landscape and prediction of spontaneous polymorph transformations for an active pharmaceutical ingred...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Pharmaceutics: Model-Informed Pharmaceutical Products and Process Design)
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19 Citations
4,335 Views
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New Insight on Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity of MoP2 from Theoretical Perspective

  • Yuyue Gao,
  • Hongyan Li,
  • Jingyu Wang,
  • Jianyi Ma and
  • Haisheng Ren

5 September 2019

We systematically investigated the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of six facets of MoP 2 based on the periodic density functional theory (DFT). The calculated values of Gibbs free energy of hydrogen adsorption ( Δ G H ) i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Materials Design for Renewable Energy Applications)
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7 Citations
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19 Pages

This study investigates the utilisation of organometallic network frameworks composed of fourth-period transition metals and tetrahydroxyquinone (THQ) in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were employed in an...

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36 Citations
22,637 Views
29 Pages

4 June 2009

Canister integrity and radionuclides retention is of prime importance for assessing the long term safety of nuclear waste stored in engineered geologic depositories. A comparative investigation of the interaction of uranyl ion with three different mi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Density Functional Theory)
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2 Citations
1,150 Views
18 Pages

10 April 2025

Sulfamic acid (SA) is extensively utilised in industry as a component in the production of flameproof materials, a catalyst for swift and highly efficient synthesis, in dye and pigment manufacturing processes, or as herbicide. Under ambient condition...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)
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1 Citations
3,133 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2022

Due to the high solubility of uranyl sulfate and selenite minerals, the investigation involving the determination of the crystal structures and physical properties of these minerals is essential in actinide environmental chemistry for the simulation...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Crystalline Materials)
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8 Citations
8,802 Views
12 Pages

Catalytic Reactions on Model Gold Surfaces: Effect of Surface Steps and of Surface Doping

  • José L. C. Fajín,
  • Maria Natália D. S. Cordeiro and
  • José R. B. Gomes

21 November 2011

The adsorption energies and the activation energy barriers for a series of reactions catalyzed by gold surfaces and obtained theoretically through density functional theory (DFT) based calculations were considered to clarify the role of the low coord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gold Catalysts)
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19 Citations
8,462 Views
25 Pages

Computational Surface Modelling of Ices and Minerals of Interstellar Interest—Insights and Perspectives

  • Albert Rimola,
  • Stefano Ferrero,
  • Aurèle Germain,
  • Marta Corno and
  • Piero Ugliengo

28 December 2020

The universe is molecularly rich, comprising from the simplest molecule (H2) to complex organic molecules (e.g., CH3CHO and NH2CHO), some of which of biological relevance (e.g., amino acids). This chemical richness is intimately linked to the differe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue First Principles Calculations of Minerals and Related Materials)
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3 Citations
2,424 Views
13 Pages

2 October 2022

Many novel physical properties of twisted bilayer graphene have been discovered and studied successively, but the physical mechanism of the chiral modulation of BLG by a twisted angle lacks theoretical research. In this work, the density functional t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Chemistry for Material Research)
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24 June 2023

The anomalous transport of particles in the presence of a time-dependent field is considered in the framework of a comb model. This turbulent-like dynamics consists of inhomogeneous time-dependent advection along the x-backbone and Brownian motion al...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
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1 Citations
2,781 Views
16 Pages

Density Functional Theory Calculations for Interpretation of Infra-Red Spectra of Liquid Crystalline Chiral Compound

  • Aleksandra Deptuch,
  • Natalia Górska,
  • Michaela Murzyniec,
  • Monika Srebro-Hooper,
  • James Hooper,
  • Magdalena Dziurka and
  • Magdalena Urbańska

13 July 2024

The experimental IR spectra of (S)-4′-(1-methylheptyloxycarbonyl) biphenyl-4-yl 4-[2-(2,2,3,3,4,4,4-heptafluorobutoxy) ethyl-1-oxy]-2-fluorobenzoate in the crystal phase are analyzed with the help of dispersion-corrected density functional theo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Liquid Crystal Research and Novel Applications in the 21st Century)
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6 Citations
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10 Pages

10 September 2018

As important functional materials, the electronic structure and physical properties of (GaAs)m(AlAs)n superlattices (SLs) have been extensively studied. However, due to limitations of computational methods and computational resources, it is sometimes...

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100 Citations
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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 (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Pharmaceutics: Model-Informed Pharmaceutical Products and Process Design)
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39 Citations
14,346 Views
26 Pages

21 January 2020

Porphyrins are fascinating molecules with applications spanning various scientific fields. In this review we present the use of periodic density functional theory (PDFT) calculations to study the structure, electronic properties, and reactivity of po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Application of Quantum Mechanics in Reactivity of Molecules)
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5 Citations
6,020 Views
11 Pages

22 July 2022

The crystal structure of a new zonisamide cocrystal, an anticonvulsant drug used to treat the symptoms of epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, with ϵ-caprolactam is reported herein. The structure has been solved by direct space methodologies...

(This article belongs to the Section Crystal Engineering)
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3 Citations
2,055 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2024

Martensitic transformations, viewed as continuous mappings between triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMSs), as suggested by Hyde and Andersson (Z. Kristallogr. 1986, 174, 225–236), are extended to include paths between the initial and final ph...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
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7 Citations
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Vibrational Dynamics of Crystalline 4-Phenylbenzaldehyde from INS Spectra and Periodic DFT Calculations

  • Mariela M. Nolasco,
  • Catarina F. Araujo,
  • Pedro D. Vaz,
  • Ana M. Amado and
  • Paulo Ribeiro-Claro

18 March 2020

The present work emphasizes the value of periodic density functional theory (DFT) calculations in the assessment of the vibrational spectra of molecular crystals. Periodic calculations provide a nearly one-to-one match between the calculated and obse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Spectroscopy 2020)
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4 Citations
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26 Pages

Theoretical Study on the Structural, Elastic, Electronic and Thermodynamic Properties of Long-Period Superstructures h- and r-Al2Ti under High Pressure

  • Yufeng Wen,
  • Xianshi Zeng,
  • Yuanxiu Ye,
  • Qingdong Gou,
  • Bo Liu,
  • Zhangli Lai,
  • Daguo Jiang,
  • Xinyuan Sun and
  • Minghui Wu

15 June 2022

The formations of long-period superstructures strongly influence the properties of Al-rich L10-TiAl intermetallic alloys. To soundly understand the role of the superstructures in the alloys, fundamentals about them have to be known. In the present wo...

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6 Citations
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11 Pages

Electronegativity under Confinement

  • Andrés Robles-Navarro,
  • Carlos Cárdenas and
  • Patricio Fuentealba

17 November 2021

The electronegativity concept was first formulated by Pauling in the first half of the 20th century to explain quantitatively the properties of chemical bonds between different types of atoms. Today, it is widely known that, in high-pressure regimes,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemical Bonding: A Commemorative Special Issue Honoring Professor Linus Pauling)
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7 June 2025

This paper introduces a functional framework for modeling cyclical and feedback-driven information flow using a generalized family of derangetropy operators. In contrast to scalar entropy measures such as Shannon entropy, these operators act directly...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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1 Citations
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Double-Period Gravitational Dynamics from a Multifractal Perspective of Motion

  • Vlad Ghizdovat,
  • Maricel Agop,
  • Florin Nedeff,
  • Valentin Nedeff,
  • Dragos Ioan Rusu and
  • Decebal Vasincu

Assimilating complex systems to multifractal-type objects reveals continuous and non-differentiable curve dynamics, aligning with the Multifractal Theory of Motion. Two scenarios, a Schrödinger-type and a Madelung-type multifractal scenario, are...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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18 Citations
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11 Pages

Structural Features That Stabilize ZnO Clusters: An Electronic Structure Approach

  • Csaba E. Szakacs,
  • Erika F. Merschrod S. and
  • Kristin M. Poduska

We show that a simple approach to building small computationally inexpensive clusters offers insights on specific structural motifs that stabilize the electronic structure of ZnO. All-electron calculations on ZniOi needle (i = 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18) a...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Chemistry)
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2 Citations
1,759 Views
23 Pages

16 February 2025

Local data are essential for the analysis of abrupt conditions in traffic flow. In this research, we address the shortcomings of real-time traffic flow detection data, which inadequately represent the density characteristics of vehicular traffic. To...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
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3 Citations
3,974 Views
10 Pages

6 December 2018

TiO 2 anatase (001) surface has been indicated for many years as a potential system for water dissociation and hydrogen production. Surface reconstruction periodicity of TiO 2 anatase (001) in water is revised on the basis of the new...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanocharacterization and Innovation at Nanoscale)
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9 Citations
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19 January 2023

The atomic structure and electronic and magnetic properties of two zig-zag-edged hexagonal nanohelicenes of the second type [1.2] and [2.2] were studied by the density functional theory. These objects possess a helical periodicity and belong to the f...

(This article belongs to the Section Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures)
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11 Citations
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Insight into the Influence of Alloying Elements on the Elastic Properties and Strengthening of Copper: A High-Throughput First-Principles Calculations

  • Jinhao Zhang,
  • Youcheng Zhang,
  • Aiqin Wang,
  • Tingting Liang,
  • Zhiping Mao,
  • Bo Su,
  • Haisheng Li and
  • Jingpei Xie

1 May 2023

In this work, using the high-throughput density functional theory calculation method, the influence of 36 alloying elements on the elastic properties of FCC-Cu was systematically studied, and based on the Labusch model, a linear relationship was fitt...

(This article belongs to the Section Computation and Simulation on Metals)
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20 Citations
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Essential Electronic Properties of Silicon Nanotubes

  • Hsin-Yi Liu,
  • Ming-Fa Lin and
  • Jhao-Ying Wu

22 September 2021

In this work, the various electronic properties of silicon nanotubes (SiNTs) were investigated by the density functional theory. The cooperative and competitive relationships between the chiral angle, periodic boundary conditions, and multi-orbital h...

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11 Citations
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22 Pages

26 March 2021

We present a novel method for the computation of well-defined optimized atomic partial charges and radii from the total electron density. Our method is based on a two-step radical Voronoi tessellation of the (possibly periodic) system and subsequent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Describing Bulk Phase Effects with Ab Initio Methods)
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8 Citations
4,239 Views
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19 March 2019

We address the field of soft plasmonics in finite electrolyte liquid systems ranged by insulating membranes by an analogy to the plasmonics of metallic nanostructures. The confined electrolyte systems can be encountered on a bio-cell organizational l...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences)
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5 Citations
2,935 Views
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Modeling of BN-Doped Carbon Nanotube as High-Performance Thermoelectric Materials

  • Naiara L. Marana,
  • Julio R. Sambrano and
  • Silvia Casassa

6 December 2022

Ternary BNC nanotubes were modeled and characterized through a periodic density functional theory approach with the aim of investigating the influence on the structural, electronic, mechanical, and transport properties of the quantity and pattern of...

(This article belongs to the Section Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures)
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6 Citations
4,299 Views
22 Pages

Modeling Adsorption and Optical Properties for the Design of CO2 Photocatalytic Metal-Organic Frameworks

  • Priscila Chacón,
  • Joseelyne G. Hernández-Lima,
  • Adán Bazán-Jiménez and
  • Marco A. García-Revilla

Four Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) were modeled (IRMOF-C-BF2, IRMOF-C-(2)-BF2, IRMOF-C’-BF2, and IRMOF-C-CH2BF2) based on IRMOF-1. A series of linkers, based on Frustrated Lewis Pairs and coumarin moieties, were attached to IRMOF-1 to obtain MOFs w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemical Bonding: A Commemorative Special Issue Honoring Professor Linus Pauling)
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2 Citations
2,799 Views
12 Pages

Insights into the Electronic, Optical, and Anti-Corrosion Properties of Two-Dimensional ZnO: First-Principles Study

  • Fatma Abd Elwahab,
  • Nahed H. Teleb,
  • Hazem Abdelsalam,
  • Omar H. Abd-Elkader and
  • Qinfang Zhang

11 February 2024

The electronic, optical, and anticorrosion properties of planer ZnO crystal and quantum dots are explored using density functional theory calculations. The calculations for the finite ZnO quantum dots were performed in Gaussian 16 using the B3LYP/6-3...

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28 September 2026

In this work we have provided the first comprehensive investigation of the vibrational spectra of polyhalogenated haloferrocenes; viz 1,1′-dibromoferrocene, 1,1′,2,2′-tetrabromoferrocene, 1,1′,2,2′,3,3′-hexabromofe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 30th Anniversary of Molecules—Recent Advances in Physical Chemistry)
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9 Citations
3,697 Views
23 Pages

The Structural and Electrochemical Properties of CuCoO2 Crystalline Nanopowders and Thin Films: Conductivity Experimental Analysis and Insights from Density Functional Theory Calculations

  • Hasnae Chfii,
  • Amal Bouich,
  • Andreu Andrio,
  • Joeluis Cerutti Torres,
  • Bernabé Mari Soucase,
  • Pablo Palacios,
  • Mohammed Abd Lefdil and
  • Vicente Compañ

11 August 2023

A novel manufacturing process is presented for producing nanopowders and thin films of CuCoO2 (CCO) material. This process utilizes three cost-effective synthesis methods: hydrothermal, sol-gel, and solid-state reactions. The resulting delafossite Cu...

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7 Citations
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13 Pages

3 January 2023

In this work, the adsorption of CO onto the surface of the transition metal Ni at different coverage levels was explored based on the density functional theory (DFT). The corresponding periodic slab plate models were established, and the adsorption p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blue and Green Hydrogen Production)
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21 Citations
3,225 Views
12 Pages

Matere Bonds in Technetium Compounds: CSD Survey and Theoretical Considerations

  • Sergi Burguera,
  • Rosa M. Gomila,
  • Antonio Bauzá and
  • Antonio Frontera

20 January 2023

Noncovalent interactions involving metals as electron acceptors are continuously under investigation. The term “matere bond” has been proposed to identify noncovalent donor–acceptor interactions where elements of group 7 of the peri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Crystal Engineering in 2022)
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10 Citations
3,595 Views
15 Pages

Calibration of Fermi Velocity to Explore the Plasmonic Character of Graphene Nanoribbon Arrays by a Semi-Analytical Model

  • Talia Tene,
  • Marco Guevara,
  • Edwin Viteri,
  • Alba Maldonado,
  • Michele Pisarra,
  • Antonello Sindona,
  • Cristian Vacacela Gomez and
  • Stefano Bellucci

13 June 2022

We present an analysis of the electronic and plasmonic behavior of periodic planar distributions of sufficiently wide graphene nanoribbons, for which a thorough ab initio investigation is practically unfeasible. Our approach is based on a semi-analyt...

(This article belongs to the Section 2D and Carbon Nanomaterials)
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7 Citations
6,792 Views
12 Pages

Interaction of Hydrogen with Au Modified by Pd and Rh in View of Electrochemical Applications

  • Fernanda Juarez,
  • German Soldano,
  • Elizabeth Santos,
  • Hazar Guesmi,
  • Frederik Tielens and
  • Tzonka Mineva

Hydrogen interaction with bimetallic Au(Pd) and Au(Rh) systems are studied with the density functional theory (DFT)-based periodic approach. Several bimetallic configurations with varying concentrations of Pd and Rh atoms in the under layer of a gold...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 50th Anniversary of the Kohn-Sham Theory—Advances in Density Functional Theory)
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22 Citations
5,010 Views
14 Pages

Two Faces of Water in the Formation and Stabilization of Multicomponent Crystals of Zwitterionic Drug-Like Compounds

  • Artem O. Surov,
  • Nikita A. Vasilev,
  • Andrei V. Churakov,
  • Olga D. Parashchuk,
  • Sergei V. Artobolevskii,
  • Oleg A. Alatortsev,
  • Denis E. Makhrov and
  • Mikhail V. Vener

6 March 2021

Two new hydrated multicomponent crystals of zwitterionic 2-aminonicotinic acid with maleic and fumaric acids have been obtained and thoroughly characterized by a variety of experimental (X-ray analysis and terahertz Raman spectroscopy) and theoretica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Chemistry)
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23 March 2026

Isosymmetric phase transitions driven by subtle hydrogen-bond rearrangements remain challenging for periodic density functional theory (DFT), particularly when energy differences between polymorphs are small. Resorcinol represents an interesting case...

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3 Citations
3,907 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2021

The article discusses the UAV lateral motion stabilization system, as a MIMO multiloop multirate continuous-discrete system, specified in the form of an input–output model in the domain of discrete Laplace transform or in the form of a structural dia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptual Design, Modeling, and Control Strategies of Drones)
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6 Citations
1,542 Views
15 Pages

Metal-Involving Bifurcated Halogen Bonding with Iodide and Platinum(II) Center

  • Mariya A. Kryukova,
  • Margarita B. Kostareva,
  • Anna M. Cheranyova,
  • Marina A. Khazanova,
  • Anton V. Rozhkov and
  • Daniil M. Ivanov

The cocrystallization of trans-[PtI2(NCR)2] (R = NMe21, NEt22, Ph 3, o-ClC6H44) with iodine and iodoform gave the crystalline adducts 1∙4I2, 2∙2CHI3, 3∙2CHI3, and 4∙4I2, whose structures were studied by single-crystal X-ray di...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science)
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4 Citations
5,535 Views
12 Pages

We have investigated the bulk and surface properties of the group II metal fluorides CaF 2 , SrF 2 and BaF 2 using periodic density functional theory (DFT) calculations and surface thermodynamics. Our bulk results show that the...

(This article belongs to the Section Organometallic Chemistry)
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6 Citations
3,142 Views
15 Pages

5 September 2021

In this paper, we investigate the stability of equilibrium in the stage-structured and density-dependent predator–prey system with Beddington–DeAngelis functional response. First, by checking the sign of the real part for eigenvalue, local stability...

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2 Citations
2,725 Views
18 Pages

Predictions on Structural and Electronic Properties to Synthesize Bismuth-Carbon Compounds in Different Periodicities

  • Abdul Majid,
  • Tariq M. Younes,
  • Alia Jabeen,
  • Hira Batool,
  • Mohammad Alkhedher and
  • Sayed M. ElDin

17 November 2022

This work was carried out to explore the compounds of bismuth with carbon using density functional theory (DFT)-based computations. The structures of the compounds BiC, BiC2, BiC3, Bi2C3, BiC5, and Bi2C5 were predicted at a generalized gradient appro...

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