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Exploring the Structural and Electronic Properties of Niobium Carbide Clusters: A Density Functional Theory Study.

Hui-Fang Li, Huai-Qian Wang, Yu-Kun Zhang

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)(2024)

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This paper systematically investigates the structure, stability, and electronic properties of niobium carbide clusters, NbmCn (m = 5, 6; n = 1-7), using density functional theory. Nb5C2 and Nb5C6 possess higher dissociation energies and second-order difference energies, indicating that they have higher thermodynamic stability. Moreover, ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations are used to demonstrate the thermal stability of these structures. The analysis of the density of states indicates that the molecular orbitals of NbmCn (m = 5, 6; n = 1-7) are primarily contributed by niobium atoms, with carbon atoms having a smaller contribution. The composition of the frontier molecular orbitals reveals that niobium atoms contribute approximately 73.1% to 99.8% to NbmCn clusters, while carbon atoms contribute about 0.2% to 26.9%.
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density functional theory,structure,stability,electronic property,ab initio molecular dynamics
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