Periodic models

The electronic structure of solids and surfaces is usually described in terms of band structure. To this end, a unit cell containing a given number of atoms is periodically repeated in three dimensions to account for the infinite nature of the crystalline solid and the Schrodinger equation is solved for the atoms in the unit cell subject to periodic boundary conditions [38]. This approach can also be extended to the study of adsorbates on surfaces or of bulk defects by means of the supercell approach in which an artificial periodic structure is created where the adsorbate is translationally reproduced in correspondence to a given super lattice of the host. This procedure allows the use of efficient computer programs designed for the treatment of periodic systems and has indeed been followed by several authors to study defects using either DFT and plane waves approaches [39-41] or Hartree-Fock (HF)-based methods with localized atomic orbitals [42,43]. 

The presence of the adsorbate in the surface unit cell, however, results in a periodic repetition of the adsorbate or defect in the two directions of space, hence modeling high coverage. The only way to reduce the adsorbate concentration is to increase the size of the unit cell, a solution that implies a large 

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A very simple version of this approach was used in early applications. An alchemical charging calculation was done using a distance-based cutoff for electrostatic interactions, either with a finite or a periodic model. Then a cut-off correction equal to the Born free energy, Eq. (38), was added, with the spherical radius taken to be = R. This is a convenient but ill-defined approximation, because the system with a cutoff is not equivalent to a spherical charge of radius R. A more rigorous cutoff correction was derived recently that is applicable to sufficiently homogeneous systems [54] but appears to be impractical for macromolecules in solution. 

Saez, AE Perfetti, JC Rusinek, I, Prediction of Effective Diffusivities in Porous Media Using Spatially Periodic Models, Transport in Porous Media 6, 143, 1991. 

In this brief review we illustrated on selected examples how combinatorial computational chemistry based on first principles quantum theory has made tremendous impact on the development of a variety of new materials including catalysts, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers, functional materials, etc. Since the advent of modem computing resources, first principles calculations were employed to clarify the properties of homogeneous catalysts, bulk solids and surfaces, molecular, cluster or periodic models of active sites. Via dynamic mutual interplay between theory and advanced applications both areas profit and develop towards industrial innovations. Thus combinatorial chemistry and modem technology are inevitably intercoimected in the new era opened by entering 21 century and new millennium. 

A MILP model of the aggregated scheduling problem of the EPS process was proposed by Sand and Engell [16]. The model is formulated as a discrete time multi-period model where each period i e 1,..., 1 corresponds to two days. The degrees of freedom of the aggregated problem are the following discrete production decisions ... 

Figure 7 Example of a periodic model of CO on a slab representing a Rh( 100) surface. A unit cell containing several metal atoms and the adsorbate is tiled in the x, y, and z direction. This produces a metal slab with on one side molecules adsorbed. The slab extends along the xy plane, and is separated by some empty space from its image in the z direction...

Taylor et al. conducted DFT simulations using a periodic model of the interface between water and various metal surfaces with an index of (1 1 l).102 The chemistry of water at these charged interfaces was investigated and the parameters relevant to the macroscopic behavior of the interface, such as the capacitance and the potential of zero charge (PZC), were evaluated. They also examined the influence of co-adsorbed CO upon the equilibrium potential for the activation of water on Pt(l 1 1). They found that for copper and platinum there was a potential window over which water is inert. However, on Ni(l 1 1) surface water was always found in some dissociated form (i.e., adsorbed OH or H ). The relaxation of water... 

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A periodic model of the zirconia surface was used in MD modeling. It consisted of 2 x 2 elementary Zr02 cells, and ZrCl4 precursors incident perpendicular to the surface. The Zr02 surface was connected with a thermostat with a temperature of 600 K, and the initial velocities of the ZrCl4 precursor corresponded to a temperature of 600 K. 

Fig. 5 The optimized structure of the DMSO intercalated molecule in the K-DMSO system calculated using cluster model at the B3LYP/3-21G level of theory [148], and periodic model calculated using the DFT method, PW91 potential and plane waves basis set [150] (K-DMSO(4) model).

Different interaction energies of the K-DMSO system were found using periodic models, depending on the number of DMSO molecules present [150]. The calculated values of interaction energies are as follows -21.69 kcal/mol (K-DMSO(l)), -17.90 kcal/mol (K-MSO(2)), -15.88 kcal/mol (K-DMSO(4)) (the interaction energies are recalculated per one DMSO molecule). The interaction energy that corresponds to mutual interactions of intercalated DMSO molecules in the interlayer space of kaolinite is about 2.43 kcal/mol. 

The foregoing results may be discussed in terms of spatially periodic suspensions, which represent the only exactly analyzable suspension models currently available for concentrated systems. Since spatially periodic models are discussed in the next section, the remainder of this section may be omitted at first reading. 

Second, the spatially periodic model suggests further interpretations and experiments. That no kink exists in the viscosity vs. concentration curve may be related to the fact that the average dissipation rate remains finite at the maximum kinematic concentration limit, ma>. Infinite strings of particles are formed at this limit. It may thus be said that although the geometry percolates, the resulting fields themselves do not, at least not within the context of the spatially periodic suspension model. 

Spatially periodic models of suspensions (Adler and Brenner, 1985a,b Adler et al., 1985 Zuzovsky et al, 1983 Adler, 1984 Nunan and Keller, 1984) constitute an attractive subject for theoretical treatment since their geometrical simplicity permits rigorous analysis, even in highly concentrated systems. In particular, when a unit cell of the spatially periodic arrangement contains but a single particle, the underlying kinematical problems can be... 

Finally, the self-reproducibility in time of the lattice configuration (for two-dimensional flows) must be addressed. In the elliptic streamline region (A < 0), the lattice necessarily replicates itself periodically in time owing to closure of the streamlines. For hyperbolic flows (A > 0), the lattice is not generally reproduced however, in connection with research on spatially periodic models of foams (Aubert et al., 1986 Kraynik, 1988), Kraynik and Hansen (1986, 1987) found a finite set of reproducible hexagonal lattices for the extensional flow case A = 1. It is not clear how this unique discovery can be extended, if at all. 

Theoretical modeling of the structure and reactivity of zeolitic materials, with special emphasis on the mechanism of catalytic reactions, has been the subject of several exhaustive review articles in the past decade. Theoretical approaches that have been used to describe such systems range from empirical molecular mechanics calculations to various ab initio methods as well as different variants of the mixed quantum/classical (QM/MM) algorithms. In the present contribution we focus our attention mainly on those studies which were accomplished by ab initio pseudopotential plane wave density functional methods that are able to treat three-dimensional periodic models of the zeolite catalysts. Where appropriate, we attempt a critical comparison of with other theoretical approaches. 

The metals supported on a 2-D surface are investigated by periodic models, with the aim of characterising the properties of the supported metal particles as function of their cluster size from isolated supported metal atoms to regular overlayers. We will discuss two different noble metals Pd and Pt. The properties of these metals are similar, but when supported on an oxide surface they show in many cases different behaviour. One important distinction between them concerns the shape of the supported clusters, which are known to depend on the strength of the metal-support interaction, and therefore on parameters such as the choice of the substrate, working temperature and loading [11]. Pt is reported to form 2-dimensional particles followed by transformation into 3-dimensional particles [12], while Pd tends to form 3-dimensional but flat (raft-like) particles when supported on a Z1O2 support [13]. 

De Man and van Santen ° performed a normal mode analysis of both cluster and periodic models of zeolite lattices using the GVFF developed by Etchepare et al. In an attempt to find a relation between specific normal modes and the presence of particular substructures, de Man and van Santen compared spectra of zeolite lattices with those of lattice substructures, projected eigenvectors of a substructure in the framework onto the eigenvectors of the molecular model of the structure, and constructed the difference and sum spectra of frameworks with and without particular structural units. The study concluded that there is no general justification for correlating the presence of large structural elements with particular features in the vibrational spectra. 

Parrinello (CP-MD) approach are now feasible for periodic models as large as zeolitic systems. 

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