Questions tagged [adsorption]
For questions about modeling the adsorption, the process of molecules attaching to a solid surface.
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VASP vibrational calculation with IBRION=7 fail to converge?
I am trying to run a vibrational frequency calculation in VASP using IBRION=7 (I tried IBRION 5 as well). The system is a monolayer over the CsPbBr₃ (001) slab. In POSCAR I fixed all atoms of the slab ...
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Problem for structure optimization molecule–slab adsorption structure in VASP
I’m attempting adsorption energy calculations where the isolated molecule and the clean slab are both fully optimized, but when I relax the combined system the molecule consistently either desorbs (...
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MoS2_Cu cluster adsorption study using Gaussian
I have a calculation of studyng the adsorption energy of a organic molecule on $\ce{Cu}$ metal. This $\ce{Cu}$ is a substituted in $\ce{MoS2}$ cluster. Please see the attached figure. I have been ...
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Can a hexagonal monolayer be converted into a cubic system for calculating ground state energy of charged systems using VASP 6.5.1?
I wanted to study about the adsorption of a charged monomer on a material with hexagonal unit cell. to mimic charges, i used dipole corrections but the software i use (VASP 6.5.1) said that the ...
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Understanding the [13s8p/6s3p] contraction scheme for Mg⁺ and its reduction to [12s7p/5s2p]
Pacchioni et al. [1] used a [13s8p/6s3p] basis set for Mg⁺ in early cluster model calculations. The context is embedding, here is the list of primitives for the basis as given in the appendix: ...
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Glycine adsorption on PHB (010) alpha phase
I'm trying to calculate the adsorption energy of glycine on the PHB (010) surface in the alpha phase, but the calculation hasn't converged. I tried different VASP ...
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Hydrogen adsorption using quantum espresso
I do hydrogen adsorption on 2*2 2D material supercell, I have started by vc-relax of the substrate and find out the total energy. Than, I have fixed the substrat and I have placed the H2 molecule on ...
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Partial Hessian vibrational analysis (PHVA) of adsorption in MOFs
I have been probing acid sites in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) by performing the partial Hessian vibrational analysis (PHVA) which provides information about characteristic vibrational modes that ...
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Adsorption energy calculations using quantum espresso through BURAI
I'm currently working on a CO2 capture project and would love some guidance as I'm not super confident about what I'm doing and am in sore need of some mentorship. I want to test different zeolite ...
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How the metal-adsorbate coupling matrix element 'V' is obtained?
In DFT based studies on metals for catalysis, the adsorption energy of the adsorbates is explained with the coupling matrix element V between molecular orbitals and metal d-states. Is it obtainable ...
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Adsorption energy value is too low
The adsorption energy I am finding is too low (-0.84 eV) compared to the published data (-2.57 eV). I followed the methodology from a published paper (number of layers, vacuum, slab placement, etc). ...
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How to convert all structure coordinates in .traj file to separate .txt files (e.g. POSCAR format files)?
I am using the ACAT code for generating the structures. ...
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Calculated adsorption energy is too high in VASP
I am trying to calculate the adsorption energy of benzoic acid into a PtRu surface, but the energy that I am finding is too high (around 40eV). The reported values are around -2.0eV for this. Also, I ...
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Interstitial adsorbates
I have a poscar that I would like to place oxygen atoms as adsorbates in the subsurface. I have tried with Shaun's acat code but appears is not working for me. The posccar is shown below. ...
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Reproducing ZPE corrections to adsorption from literature
Background In this paper by Lee, et al., they are looking at different functionals and dispersion corrections and how they change the predicted value of CO$_2$ chemisorption on an amine-functionalized ...