In two recent papers, researchers from Trieste and Pisa studied the optical properties of silver and gold nanoparticles. The fundamental study on silver nanoshells showed that plasmonic features emerge at shells as small as 92 atoms....
Simulations of resonance hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) for molecules and metal clusters in both resonance and off-resonance regions have been studied using TDDFT, with a new implementation by the ADF development groups of Lasse Jensen and...
In a paper with collaborators from Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, and the US, the structural, electronic and chiroptical properties of BINAS-substituted A-Au38(SCH3)24 have been studied with scalar-relativistic TDDFT. R-BINAS preferentially adsorbs by bridging two vicinal dimer...
Researchers from PNNL have, for the first time, isolated and characterized two agostic isomers (‘agostomers’). Isomers of a cationic Mo piano stool complex, important intermediates in catalytic hydrogenation, have been separated by crystallization and can...
Various newspapers and magazines in The Netherlands have reported about the recent paper ( J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 1438 (2005)) by a group at the University of Leiden. The team in Leiden, by a...
Professor Christine Aikens of Kansas State University and Professor George Schatz of Northwestern University and their co-workers have collaborated on a number of works exploring the electronic spectroscopy of metal nanoparticles with time dependent density...
Inorganic chemists are all familiar with the “18-electron rule” for transition metal complexes. Logically, this leads to a 32-electron rule for inner transition complexes, in which the f orbitals must also play a role....
In a recent edition of Angewandte Chemie, Eva Zurek, now at the University at Buffalo, along with Peter P. Edwards at the University of Oxford and Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University published a detailed computational...
Morton and Jensen from Penn State have developed a frequency-dependent QM/MM method, the discrete interaction model/quantum mechanics (DIM/QM) model, with which optical properties of molecules adsorbed on surfaces of nanoparticles can be studied. The response...
ADF developer Johannes Neugebauer and his co-workers have showcased new methodologies within the Frozen-Density Embedding (FDE) framework. With FDE, much larger systems can be studied than with traditional DFT. Furthermore, as densities can be localized...