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金属团簇在能源应用上的第一性原理研究
First Principle Study on Energy Application of Metal Cluster
【作者】 连科研;
【作者基本信息】 吉林大学 , 原子与分子物理, 2010, 博士
【摘要】 伴随着化石能源的枯竭及与之相关的环境污染问题,新能源的开发日益成为世界各国关注的热点问题。我们的主要工作是结合金属团簇独特的物理化学性质,探讨金属团簇在新能源开发上的潜在的应用价值。从研究铝团簇和氢原子相互作用的物理化学机制入手,探讨了如何利用团簇形成的纳米材料储氢以及团簇形成的纳米材料与体材料相比的优越性。基于DFT方法的第一性原理计算表明,富氢体系可以形成AlnH3n的笼型团簇结构,这些结构中,以具有八面体对称的Al6H18和Al12H36结构最为稳定。我们发现以团簇Al12H36为基本结构单元可以形成稳定的(Al12H36)n团簇链,为铝团簇储氢提供了新的思路。同时对Al12H36的生成热和燃烧热等热力学性质的研究表明其可能成为一种新型的高能密材料。这一特性是氢化铝的体材料所没有的。通过对一维金链激发态光谱的计算讨论了一维金链中等离激元的形成,着重讨论了纵模随着一维金链长度的改变。我们发现金原子中的d电子对等离激元的形成有非常大的影响,导致了一维金链中的横向跃迁模式位于非常高的激发能量范围内,同时也使得光谱结构更为复杂。随后以九个金原子组成的金链为例,讨论了一维金链对聚合己基塞吩(P3HT)的吸收谱的影响。我们发现一维金链可以使己基塞吩的二聚物和四聚物的吸收谱从紫外区红移至可见光和红外光区域,从而达到有效利用太阳光的辐射的目的。
【Abstract】 Clusters compose of several to several thousand of atoms, molecules or ions. Ithas the scale from several angstrum to several hundreds of angstrum, conbining togetherthrough physical or chemical interactions. Their characteristics are different from freeindividual atom or molecule, and also distinguish from liquid or solid state. Their potentialpromising application has attracted much attention on their forming physical andchemical characteristics. Broad application prospects have attracted much attention ontheir formation mechanism, physical and chemical properties and various potential applications.New energy source has become the focus of attention all around the world. Hydrogenstand out , in the development of new energy with its rich resources and high caloricvalue. How to safely and effectively store hydrogen is still the bottleneck area for itspractical application. Solar energy as primary energy, can be described as inexhaustible.The applications of solar energy has been improved from solar thermal conversion methodto photoelectric conversion nowadays. As examples of the photoelectric conversion solarcells have been focused on, while efficiency still can’t meet the requirements of practicalapplication for using organic materials as photovoltaic solar cellOur jobs focus on discussing metal clusters’potential application in new energysource, taking the advange of metal clusters’unique physical and chemical characteristics.Our jobs include two parts.The study subject of the first part is the hydride aluminum. We discuss how to usenanomaterial based on metal clusters to store hydrogen and their advangeness, compared with solid state. Our calculations with DFT method present that the rich hydrogen syetemcan form AlnH3n cage cluster structures. In these structures, Al6H18 and Al12H36 structureswith Oh symmetry are most stable. The structure optimization of Al12Hm (m = 12,14, 16, and 20 ) shows that the Al12 cluster frame with Oh symmetry tends to adsorb morehydrogen atoms than that with Ih symmetry. The electronic characteristics of these clusters,including the diffrence between the highest occupation molecular orbital (HOMO)and the lowest unoccupation molecular (LUMO) orbital, binding energy, vertical electronaffinity and ionizaiton potential, represent the stability of Al6H18 and Al12H36 cage structuresfurtherly. Both the deformation of electron denstiy with the briged hydrgon atomsadded and the orbital energy level distribution show the interaction mechanism betweenthe hydrgon atoms and the aluminum atoms. The chain structures of Al6H18 and Al12H36clusters are optimized also. We notice that with the atom number increased, the hydridaluminum clusters tend to exit with cage structures. It is interesting that we find takingAl12H36 cage structure as basic unit, we can get stable (Al12H36)n chain structures. Theirbonding are similar to that of (AlH3)n chain structure. Our findings provide a new attemptto hydrogen storage. At the same time, Both the formation heat and combusion heat ofAl12H36 show that it is a promising high-energy high-density material (HEDM).The second part of our jobs focus on studying the plasmon formation in one dimensiongold chaines. In gold atom with the 5d electron less shielded by s and p subshells,relativistic effects become a far more important factor affecting electronic properties. Thehybridization of d electrons and s electrons decreased the gap between molecular orbitalscomposed of d electrons and that of s electrons, which makes it possible for d electronsto participate in the low energy exciation processes. the presence of d electrons affect theplasmon formation greatly. It is well known that d electrons are very localized, whichresults in the transverse mode from pi orbitals composed of d electron having very lowassociated transition momnets. Because of the defect of TDDFT method in frequencydomain, our calculated excitation energies are less than 5 eV. In this energy range, novisible transverse modes are observed. The same kind of excitation involving p electronsis expected to have much high excitation energy out of our calculation range. An approximatespectrum within a frozen orbital picture at lower computation are used to prove ourjudgement. We use one dimension gold chain with nine gold atoms to discuss the effect of gold lines on the absorption spectrum of polymer hexylthiophene (P3HT). The blendof P3HT and PCBM are an important of solar cell material. It is the excitation of theπ-orbit electron in the P3HT that gives the photovoltaic effect in the blend. We find that theabsorption spectrum of the dimer and tetramer of hexylthiophene shift from ultra violetregion to visible and infrared region with the gold chain added. This helps us to use theradition of solar energy effectively.
【Key words】 Cluster; Hydrogen Storage; Density Functional Theory; Organic Solar Cell Material;