A molecular design is presented for tailoring the energy levels in D-π-A organic dyes through fluorination of their acceptor units, which is aimed at achieving efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). This is achieved by exploiting the chemical structure of common D-π-A organic dyes and incorporating one or two fluorine atoms at the ortho-positions of the cyanoacetic acid as additional acc...

Adsorption of a boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) was examined toward ethylacetylene (C4H6) molecule by using density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G (d) level, and it was found that the adsorption energy (Ead) of ethylacetylene the pristine nanotubes is about -1.60kcal/mol. But when nanotube has been doped with Si and Al atoms, the adsorption energy of ethylacetylene molecu...

Early pharmacological studies of Aconitum and Delphinium sp. alkaloids suggested that these neurotoxins act at site 2 of voltage-gated Na(+) channel and allosterically modulate its function. Understanding structural requirements for these compounds to exhibit binding activity at voltage-gated Na(+) channel has been important in various fields. This paper reports quantum-chemical studies and qua...

Two new photosensitizers featured with a cyanoacrylic acid electron acceptor (A) and a hybrid electron donor (D) of cyclopentadithiophene and dithiafulvenyl, either directly linked or separated by a phenyl ring, were synthesized and characterized. Both of them undergo two reversible oxidations and strongly absorb in the visible spectral region due to a photo-induced intramolecular charge-transf...

in the present work, the quantum theoretical calculations of the molecular structure of the 1-(1, 3-benzothiazol-2-yl)-3-(thiophene-5-carbonyl) thiourea has been predicted and are evaluated using density functional theory (dft) in gas phase. the geometry of the title compound was optimized by b3lyp/6-311+g and b3lyp/6-311+g* methods and the experimental geometrical parameters of the title compo...

The difference between oxide and hydrogen passivation of small Si nanocrystals is explored by all-electron, hybrid functional DFT calculations with unrestricted geometry optimization. Oxide passivation lowers the band gap by about 2.4 eV for Si35 cores and by about 1.5 eV for Si66 cores. The oxide-passivated nanocrystals have optically forbidden, indirect-gap-type transitions whereas the hydrog...

The influence of the insertion/addition of a benzene ring to the natural nucleic acid bases on the local aromaticity of the so-called size-expanded (xN, with N being adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine) bases is examined. To this end, the local aromaticity of the six- and five-membered rings in both the natural bases and their benzoderivatives is determined using HOMA, NICS, aromatic fluctu...

Studies using ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) and density functional theory (DFT) demonstrate that M4X6 (M = W, Mo and X = O, S) clusters show large gaps (about 2 eV) between the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO), indicative of their high stability and chemical inertness. In particular, W4O6 has a lower symmetry and a large...

the interaction of a nitrosyl hydride (hno) molecule with b12n12 nanocage was explored by means of density functional calculations. it was found that hno prefers to be adsorbing on a boron atom of the cage with adsorption energy of -0.65 ev. this adsorption process significantly shifts the homo-lumo gap (eg) of the cage to lower energies, thereby reducing eg of the cage from 6.84 to 2.45 ev. ti...