• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.13-22
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• 2018

Aluminum silicates ($Al_2SiO_5$) undergo phase transitions among kyanite, andalusite, and sillimanite depending on temperature and pressure conditions. The minerals are often used as an important indicator of the degree of metamorphism for certain metamorphic rocks. In this study, we have applied classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and density functional theory (DFT) to the aluminum silicates. We examined the crystal structures as a function of applied pressure and the corresponding stabilities based on calculated enthalpies at each pressure. In terms of the lattice parameters, both methods showed that the volume decreases as the pressure increases as observed in the experiment. In particular, DFT results differed from experimental results by much less than 1%. As to the relative stability, however, both methods showed different levels of accuracy. In the MD simulations, a transition pressure at which the relative stability between two minerals reverse could not be determined because the enthalpies were insensitive to the applied pressure. On the other hand, in DFT calculations, the relative stability relation among the three minerals was consistent with experiment, although the transition pressure was strongly dependent on the choice of the electronic exchange-correlation functional.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.67 no.1
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• pp.13-18
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• 2023

We evaluate electron density functional theories for the computation of 0-1 and 1-2 transition energies of local OH stretching motion of water molecules in condensed phases. By examining thirteen density functionals and nine sets of basis functions, it was found that the optimal combination that predicts the transition energies highly correlated with those calculated by the coupled cluster theory, CCSD(T), is the hybrid density functional theory developed by Head-Gordon group, ωB97X(D)/6-31+G^*.

• Ceramist
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.75-84
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• 2015

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2016.03a
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• pp.1-7
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• 2016

Triphenylsulfonium 양이온(TPS)은 잘 알려진 광산 생성자(photoacid generator, PAG)중 하나로 양이온성 중합반응(cationic polymerization)의 개시제로 널리 사용됐으며, 유기발광다이오드의 활성층, 폴리머 발광다이오드의 전자주입층을 구성하는 재료로도 사용되고 있다. TPS는 200nm 주변의 빛을 흡수하면 탄소-황 결합이 끊어져 페닐 라디칼과 diphenylsulfonium 양이온 라디칼로 분해되는 것이 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 밀도범함수이론과 시간의존 밀도범함수이론을 이용 triphenylsulfonium 이온의 광학적 특성을 조사하였다. 가장 안정한 구조를 기준으로 자외선 흡광 스펙트럼을 계산하였고, 실험값에 잘 맞는 것을 확인하였다. TPS의 빛에 의한 해리 과정을 알아보기 위해 페닐-황 결합 길이를 변화시키며 TPS의 흡광 스펙트럼을 계산, 여기상태 포텐셜 에너지 곡선을 구할 수 있었다. 결합의 분해에 이용되는 상태들은 주로 점유 분자 오비탈에서 최저준위 비점유 분자 오비탈(LUMO)로 들뜨는 성분을 가지고 있었는데, 이는 LUMO가 반결합성 오비탈이기 때문이다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.242-248
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• 2016

The overall reaction rate of fuel cell is governed by oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in the cathode due to its slowest reaction compared to the oxidation of hydrogen in the anode. The ORR efficiency can be readily evaluated by examining the adsorption strength of atomic oxygen on the surface of catalysts (i.e., known as a descriptor) and the adsorption energy can be controlled by transforming the surface geometry of catalysts. In the current study, the effect of the surface geometry of catalysts (i.e., strain effect) on the adsorption strength of atomic oxygen on platinum catalysts was analyzed by using density functional theory (DFT). The optimized lattice constant of Pt ($3.977{\AA}$) was increased and decreased by 1% to apply tensile and compressive strain to the Pt surface. Then the oxygen adsorption strengths on the modified Pt surfaces were compared and the electron charge density of the O-adsorbed Pt surfaces was analyzed. As the interatomic distance increased, the oxygen adsorption strength became stronger and the d-band center of the Pt surface atoms was shifted toward the Fermi level, implying that anti-bonding orbitals were shifted to the conduction band from the valence band (i.e., the anti-bonding between O and Pt was less likely formed). Consequently, enhanced ORR efficiency may be expected if the surface Pt-Pt distance can be reduced by approximately 2~4% compared to the pure Pt owing to the moderately controlled oxygen binding strength for improved ORR.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.136-136
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• 2011

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.63 no.3
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• pp.151-159
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• 2019

The TADF properties for carbazol-dicyanobenzene, carbazol-diphenyl sulfone, carbazol-benzonitrile derivatives as OLED candidate materials are theoretically investigated using density functional theory (DFT) with $6-31G^{**}$, cc-pVDZ, and cc-pVTZ basis sets. The optimized geometries, harmonic vibrational frequencies, and HOMO-LUMO energy separations are predicted at the B3LYP/$6-31G^{**}$ level of theory. The harmonic vibrational frequencies of the molecules considered in this study show all real numbers implying true minima. The time dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations have been also applied to investigate the absorption and emission wavelength (${\lambda}_{max}$), energy differences (${\Delta}E_{ST}$) between excited singlet ($S_1$) and triplet ($T_1$) states of candidate materials.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2014.03a
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• pp.127-139
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• 2014

Hard-Soft Acid-Base (HSAB) 이론은 일반적인 유기, 무기반응의 반응성을 설명하는데 사용되어 왔다. 밀도범함수이론(DFT)을 기반으로 한 계산을 통하여 반응을 기술하기 위해 필요한 화학 퍼텐셜, global/local hardness/softness와 Fukui 함수 등을 얻을 수 있다. B3LYP 수준 하에서 DFT 양자계산을 이용하여 유기 반응을 분석했을 때 local HSAB 이론의 적용여부와 장단점을 알아보고자 하였다. 1-subtituted 다이엔과 비대칭 친다이엔체를 이용한 딜스-알더 반응의 경우 local HSAB 이론을 적용시켜, 오쏘 이성질체가 주 화합물인 이유를 설명할 수 있었다. 작용기를 변화시켰을 때 나타나는 차이점에서 규칙적인 경향성을 볼 수 없다는 사실을 통해서 전자, 입체 효과로 딜스-알더 반응을 분석할 수 없었던 이유를 이해할 수 있었다. Thiocyanate 음이온의 알킬화 반응의 경우 local HSAB 이론을 적용시켰을 때, 얻은 값을 통해서 반응 지점의 선호도를 예측할 수 없었는데 이는 thiocyanate를 생성하는 반응이 속도론적 지배 하에서 우세하는 반응이기 때문이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2013.12a
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• pp.138-138
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• 2013

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.30-39
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• 2020