Surfactant-stabilized metal nanoparticles have shown promise as catalysts although specific surface features and their influence on catalytic performance have not been well understood. We quantify the thermodynamic stability, the facet composition of the surface, and distinct atom types that affect rates of atom leaching for a series of twenty near-spherical Pd nanoparticles of 1.8 to 3.1 nm si...

Five alfalfa (Medicago sativa L) cultivars from different areas of Iran were evaluated for oxidative markers under salinity conditions. Plants were grown in hydroponic condition by Hoagland nutrient solution containing different amounts of NaCl (control, 50 and 100 mM). Relative growth rate, membrane stability, lipid peroxidation, proline, hydrogen peroxide and relative water contents were dete...

the density functional theory (dft) and the natural bond orbital (nbo) calculations basedmethod b3lyp/6-31g* were carried out to study the interaction of carbon nanotube (8,0) withnitrobenzene in two situations perpendicular and parallel. formation energies of compounds,charges, the highest occupied molecular orbital (homo) and the lowest unoccupied molecular'orbital (lumo) and the homo-lumo ba...

The ability to determine the free energy of solvation for a number of small organic molecules with varying sizes and properties from the coordinate trajectory of a single simulation of a given reference state was investigated. The relative free energies were estimated from a single step perturbation using the perturbation formula. The reference state consisted of a cavity surrounded by solvent....

In the present work, the sensitivity to the moisture (hygroscopisity) is studied for 3,4-dinitropyrazole (DNP) as a famous energetic molecule. All of the DNP-H2O complex systems (1-3) as well as individual molecules were optimized and bond lengths, bond angles, dihedral angles, charge transfer and stability via NBO analysis, corrected interaction energies with ZPE + BSSE and hydrogen bonds anal...

glycine, alanine and valine are taken as amino acids with an equal polar head and with thedifference in the length of hydrocarbon chains. the structural optimizations show the results of theisolated glycine, alanine and valine in the gases phase, at the hartree-fock level by means ofsto-3g,3-21g, 6-31g and 6-31+g basis sets. the calculations were performed for the ten (1-10)solvents using pcm m...

We demonstrate how relative equilibria of a vibrating molecule, which are families of principal periodic orbits otherwise known as nonlinear normal modes, can be used to describe the global polyad structure of vibrational energy levels. The classical action integral n(E) computed along these orbits at different energies E corresponds to the polyad quantum number n so that the energy En of diffe...

The substituent effects on the ring-opening reaction of cyclobutene radical cations have been studied at the Becke3LYP/6-31G* level of theory. The effect on the reaction energies and activation energies of the concerted and stepwise pathways of electron-donating substituents such as methyl and methoxy as well as electron-withdrawing substituents such as nitrile and carboxaldehyde in the 3-posit...

Intermolecular interactions of different configurations in the HOClO3···CO and HOClO3···H2O dyad and CO···HOClO3···H2O triad systems have been studied at MP2/6-311++G(2d,2p) computational level. Molecular geometries, binding energies, cooperative energies, many-body interaction energies, and Energy Decomposition Analysis (EDA) were eval...

GRIST is an axiomatic framework for nonstandard set theory with many “levels of standardness.” The paper establishes a number of general consequences of GRIST, in particular, a very strong form of Transfer principle. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification 26E35 (primary); 03E70, 03H05 (secondary)