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Stability of the Pentagon Structure of Water Cluster

  • Yoon, Byoung-Jip;Jhon, Mu-Shik
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.67-70
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    • 1991
  • A hexagonal hexamer of water cluster is optimized by ab initio method using the 4-31G basis set. At this geometry the nonadditive many-body interactions are calculated. The ab initio calculation with large basis set [T. H. Dunning, J. Chem. Phys., 53, 2823 (1970); 54, 3958 (1971)] shows that a pentagonal unit is rather stable among several kinds of clustering units of water molecules.

Ab initio Electronic Structure Calculations of $O_2$ Using Coupled Cluster Approaches and Many-Body Perturbation Theory

  • Yoon Sup Lee;Sang Yeon Lee
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.211-213
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    • 1991
  • The ground state of the oxygen molecule is calculated by various methods of coupled cluster approaches and many body perturbation theory using a double zeta plus polarization basis set and the UHF reference state. All the methods employed are capable of describing the oxygen molecule near the equilibrium bond length and the separated atom, but do not correctly depict the breaking of the multiple bond. For this basis set, including more correlations does not necessarily improve the agreement with experiment for molecular properties such as bond lengths and dissociation energies.

Molecular dynamics simulation of primary irradiation damage in Ti-6Al-4V alloys

  • Tengwu He;Xipeng Li;Yuming Qi;Min Zhao;Miaolin Feng
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.1480-1489
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    • 2024
  • Displacement cascade behaviors of Ti-6Al-4V alloys are investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The embedded atom method (EAM) potential including Ti, Al and V elements is modified by adding Ziegler-Biersack-Littmark (ZBL) potential to describe the short-range interaction among different atoms. The time evolution of displacement cascades at the atomic scale is quantitatively evaluated with the energy of primary knock-on atom (PKA) ranging from 0.5 keV to 15 keV, and that for pure Ti is also computed as a comparison. The effects of temperature and incident direction of PKA are studied in detail. The results show that the temperature reduces the number of surviving Frenkel pairs (FPs), and the incident direction of PKA shows little correlation with them. Furthermore, the increasing temperature promotes the point defects to form clusters but reduces the number of defects due to the accelerated recombination of vacancies and interstitial atoms at relatively high temperature. The cluster fractions of interstitials and vacancies both increase with the PKA energy, whereas the increase of interstitial cluster is slightly larger due to their higher mobility. Compared to pure Ti, the presence of Al and V is beneficial to the formation of interstitial clusters and indirectly hinders the production of vacancy clusters.

Molecular Orbital Study of Binding at the Pt(111)/${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$(111) Interface (Pt(111)/${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$(111) 계면간 결합에 관한 분자 궤도론적 연구)

  • Choe, Sang Joon;Park, Sang Moon;Park, Dong Ho;Huh, Do Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.264-272
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    • 1996
  • Cluster models of the Υ-Al2O3(111) and the Pt(111) surfaces have been used in an atom superposition and electron delocalization molecular orbital study of interfacial bond strengths between them. The reduced extents for Al3+ are due to the ratio of oxygen to aluminum atoms. The greater the reduced extent for Al3+ is, the stronger the binding energy is to Pt atoms in a cluster. The oxygen-covered surfaces of Υ-Al2O3(111) are shown to bind more weakly to Pt atoms, while the binding to the oxygen-covered surface formed under oxidizing conditions of Pt atoms is strong. The interfacial bond of platinum-alumina may be possible by a charge-transfer mechanism from the platinum surface to the partially empty O-2p band and Al3+ dangling surface orbital.

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Presence of Proboscipedia and Caudal Gene Homologues in a Bivalve Mollusc

  • Carpintero, Pablo;Pazos, Antonio Juan;Abad, Marcelina;Sanchez, Jose Luis;De La Luz Perez-Paralle, Maria
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.625-628
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    • 2004
  • Homeobox genes encode a family of transcription factors that have essential roles in regulating the development of eukaryotes. Although they have been extensively studied in different phyla, relatively little is known about homeobox-containing genes and their function in molluscs. In this study, we used a polymerase chain reaction to investigate homeobox genes in the bivalve mollusc Pecten maximus. Four different homeobox sequences were identified; two were homologues of the non-Hox cluster gene caudal and the two remaining sequences had a significant homology to the ANT-C gene proboscipedia. These sequences represent the first cad and pb homologues isolated from a member of the class Bivalvia, phylum Mollusca.