The results of predicting thermodynamic properties in the full composition range of Ti-Al binary melts in a temperature range from 1973 to 2273 K were obtained by coupling with the developed thermodynamic model for ca...The results of predicting thermodynamic properties in the full composition range of Ti-Al binary melts in a temperature range from 1973 to 2273 K were obtained by coupling with the developed thermodynamic model for calculating mass action concentration N_i of structural units in Ti-Al system based on the atom and molecule coexistence theory（AMCT）. Temperature dependence of the activity coefficients of Ti and Al in natural logarithmic form in the infinitely dilute solution（0x_（Ti）0.01） of Ti-Al binary melts was also determined from the calculated activity coefficients of Ti and Al at temperatures of 1973, 2073, 2173, and 2273 K. The standard molar Gibbs free energy change of dissolving pure liquid element i（l） for forming 1%（mass fraction） element i in Ti-Al binary melts further was deduced. With the aid of this model, meanwhile, the determined excess thermodynamic properties, such as the excess molar mixing Gibbs free energy/entropy/enthalpy were also calculated.展开更多
The present work illustrates a predictive method, based on graph theory, for different types of energy of subatomic particles, atoms and molecules, to be specific, the mass defect of the first thirteen elements of the...The present work illustrates a predictive method, based on graph theory, for different types of energy of subatomic particles, atoms and molecules, to be specific, the mass defect of the first thirteen elements of the periodic table, the rotational and vibrational energies of simple molecules (such as , H2, FH and CO) as well as the electronic energy of both atoms and molecules (conjugated alkenes). It is shown that such a diverse group of energies can be expressed as a function of few simple graph-theoretical descriptors, resulting from assigning graphs to every wave function. Since these descriptors are closely related to the topology of the graph, it makes sense to wonder about the meaning of such relation between energy and topology and suggests points of view helping to formulate novel hypotheses about this relation.展开更多
By using first-principles simulations based on time-dependent density functional theory,the chemical reaction of an HCl molecule encapsulated in C60induced by femtosecond laser pulses is observed.The H atom starts to ...By using first-principles simulations based on time-dependent density functional theory,the chemical reaction of an HCl molecule encapsulated in C60induced by femtosecond laser pulses is observed.The H atom starts to leave the Cl atom and is reflected by the C60wall.The coherent nuclear dynamic behaviors of bond breakage and recombination of the HCl molecule occurring in both polarized parallel and perpendicular to the H–Cl bond axis are investigated.The radial oscillation is also found in the two polarization directions of the laser pulse.The relaxation time of the H–Cl bond lengths in transverse polarization is slow in comparison with that in longitudinal polarization.Those results are important for studying the dynamics of the chemical bond at an atomic level.展开更多
In this study, we show how to generalize Hirshfeld partitioning methods to possibly include non-spherical proatom densities. While this generalization is numerically challenging(requiring global optimization of a larg...In this study, we show how to generalize Hirshfeld partitioning methods to possibly include non-spherical proatom densities. While this generalization is numerically challenging(requiring global optimization of a large number of parameters), it is conceptually appealing because it allows the proatoms to be pre-polarized, or even promoted, to a state that more closely resembles the atom in a molecule. This method is based on first characterizing the convex set of proatom densities associated with the degenerate ground states of isolated atoms and atomic ions. The preferred orientation of the proatoms' densities are then obtained by minimizing the information–theoretic distance between the promolecular and molecular densities. If contributions from excited states(and not just degenerate ground states) are included in the convex set, this method can describe promoted atoms. While the procedure is intractable in general, if one includes only atomic states that have differing electron-numbers and/or spins, the variational principle becomes a simple convex optimization with a single unique solution.展开更多
The efficacy and mode of action of five chalcone-based imidazole derivatives as corrosion inhibitors of aluminium metal in gas-phase and acidic medium have been investigated herein via quantum chemical calculations. D...The efficacy and mode of action of five chalcone-based imidazole derivatives as corrosion inhibitors of aluminium metal in gas-phase and acidic medium have been investigated herein via quantum chemical calculations. Dispersion-corrected DFT (DFT-D3) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations were performed at PBE0/def2-TZVP//PBEh-3c and CAM-B3LYP/def2- TZVP levels of theory, respectively. Conceptual DFT, the quantum theory of atoms-in-molecules (QTAIM) and local energy decomposition (LED) analyses have been performed. The LED analysis was performed at the coupled-cluster singles and doubles with perturbative triples (CCSD(T))/def2-SVP level of theory. Frontier molecular orbital energy gaps calculated using the TD-DFT method are found to lie in the range 3.574 - 4.444 eV, indicative of good adsorption and corrosion inhibition efficacies of the investigated molecules. The interactions between aluminium and the inhibitor molecules studied are found to be energetically favorable, owing to negative computed interaction energy values. Furthermore, QTAIM analysis revealed metal-carbon, metal-oxygen and metal-nitrogen interactions in the inhibitor-aluminium complexes, which are predominantly electrostatic in character, according to LED analysis results. Calculated proton affinities (PAs) have revealed the anticorrosion potentials of the investigated inhibitors in acidic medium, with a noticeable dependency on temperature within the range 273.15 - 343.15 K.展开更多
In order to further verify the accuracy and feasibility of the calculated mass action concentrations Ni of Al and Fe by the developed atom and molecule coexistence theory(AMCT)model,i.e.,AMCT-N,model,for representing ...In order to further verify the accuracy and feasibility of the calculated mass action concentrations Ni of Al and Fe by the developed atom and molecule coexistence theory(AMCT)model,i.e.,AMCT-N,model,for representing activities aR,i of Al and Fe in Fe-Al binary melts reported in the first part of the serial studies,the molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts over a temperature range from 1823 to 1973 K have been calculated based on Ni of Al and Fe as well as the effect of temperature on activity coefficients 7,of Al and Fe as■lnγj/■T=■ln(Ni/xi)/dT by the developed AMCTN-Ni model,where T is absolute temperature and.v,is the mole fraction of element i or compound i in metallic melts.The reported molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts as well as the reported excess molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts relative to ideal solution as a basis from the available literatures have been critically assessed and applied as criteria to verify the developed AMCT-Al,model.The effect of changing temperature onγi of Al and Fe,i.e.,activity coefficient gradients■lnγAl/■T and■lnγFe/■T,which are two indispensable parameters to calculate the molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts,can be accurately obtained by the developed AMCT-Ni,model and expressed by the cubic polynomial functions.Not only the partial molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Al and Fe in Fe-Al binary melts but also the integral molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts can be accurately calculated by the developed AMCT-Al,model.Furthermore,the excess partial and integral molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts relative to ideal solution as a basis can also be precisely calculated by the developed AMCT-Ni,model.展开更多
The reaction abilities of structural units in Fe-C binary melts over a temperature range above the liquidus lines have been evaluated by a thermodynamic model for calculating the mass action concentrations Ni of struc...The reaction abilities of structural units in Fe-C binary melts over a temperature range above the liquidus lines have been evaluated by a thermodynamic model for calculating the mass action concentrations Ni of structural units in Fe-C binary melts based on the atom-molecule coexistence theory （AMCT）, i.e., the AMCT-N/model, through comparing with the predicted activities aR.i of both C and Fe by 14 collected models from the literature at four temperatures of 1833, 1873, 1923, and 1973 K. Furthermore, the Raoultian activity coefficient γC0 of in infinitely dilute Fe-C binary melts and the standard molar Gibbs free energy change △solG%m,Cdis（1）→[C]W[C]=1.0 of dissolved liquid C for forming w[C] as 1.0 in Fe-C binary melts referred to 1 mass% of C as reference state have also been determined to be valid. The determined activity coefficient In γC of C and activity coefficient In TEe of Fe including temperature effect for Fe-C binary melts can be described by a quadratic polynomial function and a cubic polynomial function, respectively.展开更多
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文摘The results of predicting thermodynamic properties in the full composition range of Ti-Al binary melts in a temperature range from 1973 to 2273 K were obtained by coupling with the developed thermodynamic model for calculating mass action concentration N_i of structural units in Ti-Al system based on the atom and molecule coexistence theory（AMCT）. Temperature dependence of the activity coefficients of Ti and Al in natural logarithmic form in the infinitely dilute solution（0x_（Ti）0.01） of Ti-Al binary melts was also determined from the calculated activity coefficients of Ti and Al at temperatures of 1973, 2073, 2173, and 2273 K. The standard molar Gibbs free energy change of dissolving pure liquid element i（l） for forming 1%（mass fraction） element i in Ti-Al binary melts further was deduced. With the aid of this model, meanwhile, the determined excess thermodynamic properties, such as the excess molar mixing Gibbs free energy/entropy/enthalpy were also calculated.
文摘The present work illustrates a predictive method, based on graph theory, for different types of energy of subatomic particles, atoms and molecules, to be specific, the mass defect of the first thirteen elements of the periodic table, the rotational and vibrational energies of simple molecules (such as , H2, FH and CO) as well as the electronic energy of both atoms and molecules (conjugated alkenes). It is shown that such a diverse group of energies can be expressed as a function of few simple graph-theoretical descriptors, resulting from assigning graphs to every wave function. Since these descriptors are closely related to the topology of the graph, it makes sense to wonder about the meaning of such relation between energy and topology and suggests points of view helping to formulate novel hypotheses about this relation.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11074176 and 10976019)the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(Grant No.20100181110080)
文摘By using first-principles simulations based on time-dependent density functional theory,the chemical reaction of an HCl molecule encapsulated in C60induced by femtosecond laser pulses is observed.The H atom starts to leave the Cl atom and is reflected by the C60wall.The coherent nuclear dynamic behaviors of bond breakage and recombination of the HCl molecule occurring in both polarized parallel and perpendicular to the H–Cl bond axis are investigated.The radial oscillation is also found in the two polarization directions of the laser pulse.The relaxation time of the H–Cl bond lengths in transverse polarization is slow in comparison with that in longitudinal polarization.Those results are important for studying the dynamics of the chemical bond at an atomic level.
文摘In this study, we show how to generalize Hirshfeld partitioning methods to possibly include non-spherical proatom densities. While this generalization is numerically challenging(requiring global optimization of a large number of parameters), it is conceptually appealing because it allows the proatoms to be pre-polarized, or even promoted, to a state that more closely resembles the atom in a molecule. This method is based on first characterizing the convex set of proatom densities associated with the degenerate ground states of isolated atoms and atomic ions. The preferred orientation of the proatoms' densities are then obtained by minimizing the information–theoretic distance between the promolecular and molecular densities. If contributions from excited states(and not just degenerate ground states) are included in the convex set, this method can describe promoted atoms. While the procedure is intractable in general, if one includes only atomic states that have differing electron-numbers and/or spins, the variational principle becomes a simple convex optimization with a single unique solution.
文摘The efficacy and mode of action of five chalcone-based imidazole derivatives as corrosion inhibitors of aluminium metal in gas-phase and acidic medium have been investigated herein via quantum chemical calculations. Dispersion-corrected DFT (DFT-D3) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations were performed at PBE0/def2-TZVP//PBEh-3c and CAM-B3LYP/def2- TZVP levels of theory, respectively. Conceptual DFT, the quantum theory of atoms-in-molecules (QTAIM) and local energy decomposition (LED) analyses have been performed. The LED analysis was performed at the coupled-cluster singles and doubles with perturbative triples (CCSD(T))/def2-SVP level of theory. Frontier molecular orbital energy gaps calculated using the TD-DFT method are found to lie in the range 3.574 - 4.444 eV, indicative of good adsorption and corrosion inhibition efficacies of the investigated molecules. The interactions between aluminium and the inhibitor molecules studied are found to be energetically favorable, owing to negative computed interaction energy values. Furthermore, QTAIM analysis revealed metal-carbon, metal-oxygen and metal-nitrogen interactions in the inhibitor-aluminium complexes, which are predominantly electrostatic in character, according to LED analysis results. Calculated proton affinities (PAs) have revealed the anticorrosion potentials of the investigated inhibitors in acidic medium, with a noticeable dependency on temperature within the range 273.15 - 343.15 K.
基金This work is supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.2182069)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51174186).
文摘In order to further verify the accuracy and feasibility of the calculated mass action concentrations Ni of Al and Fe by the developed atom and molecule coexistence theory(AMCT)model,i.e.,AMCT-N,model,for representing activities aR,i of Al and Fe in Fe-Al binary melts reported in the first part of the serial studies,the molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts over a temperature range from 1823 to 1973 K have been calculated based on Ni of Al and Fe as well as the effect of temperature on activity coefficients 7,of Al and Fe as■lnγj/■T=■ln(Ni/xi)/dT by the developed AMCTN-Ni model,where T is absolute temperature and.v,is the mole fraction of element i or compound i in metallic melts.The reported molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts as well as the reported excess molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts relative to ideal solution as a basis from the available literatures have been critically assessed and applied as criteria to verify the developed AMCT-Al,model.The effect of changing temperature onγi of Al and Fe,i.e.,activity coefficient gradients■lnγAl/■T and■lnγFe/■T,which are two indispensable parameters to calculate the molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts,can be accurately obtained by the developed AMCT-Ni,model and expressed by the cubic polynomial functions.Not only the partial molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Al and Fe in Fe-Al binary melts but also the integral molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts can be accurately calculated by the developed AMCT-Al,model.Furthermore,the excess partial and integral molar mixing thermodynamic functions of Fe-Al binary melts relative to ideal solution as a basis can also be precisely calculated by the developed AMCT-Ni,model.
基金This work is supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation （Grant No. 2182069） and the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 51174186）.
文摘The reaction abilities of structural units in Fe-C binary melts over a temperature range above the liquidus lines have been evaluated by a thermodynamic model for calculating the mass action concentrations Ni of structural units in Fe-C binary melts based on the atom-molecule coexistence theory （AMCT）, i.e., the AMCT-N/model, through comparing with the predicted activities aR.i of both C and Fe by 14 collected models from the literature at four temperatures of 1833, 1873, 1923, and 1973 K. Furthermore, the Raoultian activity coefficient γC0 of in infinitely dilute Fe-C binary melts and the standard molar Gibbs free energy change △solG%m,Cdis（1）→[C]W[C]=1.0 of dissolved liquid C for forming w[C] as 1.0 in Fe-C binary melts referred to 1 mass% of C as reference state have also been determined to be valid. The determined activity coefficient In γC of C and activity coefficient In TEe of Fe including temperature effect for Fe-C binary melts can be described by a quadratic polynomial function and a cubic polynomial function, respectively.
