Highlights with ‘nanoscience’

Photonically active bowtie nanoassemblies with chirality continuum

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, Dr. Prashant Kumar, in the group of Prof. Kotov at the University of Michigan (USA), reports on bowtie nanostructured microparticles with a chemical structure displaying chirality...

A new auxiliary basis set for (almost) all the elements of the periodic table optimized for accurate and fast TDDFT calculations

Recently, a new algorithm, polTDDFT, to solve the TDDFT equations for large systems has been proposed and implemented in ADF [1]. PolTDDFT is a valid alternative to the Casida – Davidson approach when a very...

Meet SCM fall 2022 at various events

Come and talk to us about your R&D challenges and collaboration opportunities! We will be at various events in the Netherlands this fall: 14 September 2022, KNCV-CTC Seminar, Amsterdam (Stan) 21+22 September 2022, CHAINS, Veldhoven...

Fast Intrinsic Emission Quenching in Cs4PbBr6 Nanocrystals

Cs4PbBr6  belongs to the family of 0D metal halides, with separated and isolated [PbBr6]4- octahedra. These systems, in both nanocrystal and bulk forms, have been reported as being either non-emissive or green-emissive at room temperature...

Optical and photoluminescence properties of gold and silver nanoclusters

Silver and gold nanoclusters (NCs) have proven to be efficient and stable, with optical and emissive properties that can be tuned by changing the cluster’s geometric and electronic parameters. Due to the dependence of size,...

Transformable Polyoxometalates, Sustainable Nanoelectronics

Molecular metal oxides, or more notably polyoxometalates (POMs) are being researched for over a century. Their structure benefits from very high stability, whose inherent connectivity relies predominantly on metal-oxygen bonds. Theoretical insights into the bonding...

Unraveling the stability of ThO2 nanoclusters

In the field of nanotechnology, the ultimate goal is to produce nanostructures with specially tailored properties that contrast with those in the bulk. Actinide dioxide nanomaterials play an increasingly important role in the design of...

Fast & efficient plasmonic excitations in metallic nanoparticles

The great potential of employing tight-binding approximations after a regular DFT ground state calculation has been demonstrated in a recent paper. With the TD-DFT+TB approach (see thesis by Robert Rüger), plasmon resonances in large silver, gold,...

SCM at 9th China International OLEDs Summit

Fedor will be presenting at the Emerging Technologies 2020 conference in Shanghai. If you’re there, check out his talk in the OLEDs Summit track on January 15th. Learn how using simulations can accelerate new material...

A mechanically and electronically robust graphene-based molecular junction

A molecular device, which is both mechanically and electronically stable under operating conditions at room temperature has recently been developed. In the report in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Israel...