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Chemistry with
Computers
Yingbin GeIowa State University
Central Washington University
October 13, 2007
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Accuracy
Computer time
Hartree Fock (HF)
Perturbation theory MP2density
functional theory (DFT)
coupled-cluster CCSD(T)
molecular mechanics
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What has been done?
• Global optimization of silicon nanoclusters.
• Chemical vapor deposition of silicon carbide.
Si14H20
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Global optimization of silicon nanoclusters
•Why Si nanoclusters?•Si nanoclusters exhibit bright room-temperature photoluminescence which could be used in light-emitting devices.
•To model the excitation and emission of the Si nanoclusters, we need to know their thermodynamically stable structures.
A. Meldrum group, Adv. Mater.17, 845 (2005)
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Global vs. local optimization
global minimum
local minimum
local minimum
local optimizationenergy
Energy
conformations
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y = 0.0034e0.9827x
R2 = 0.997
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# of Ar atoms
# o
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cal m
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Why is global optimization difficult?
Ar7 Ar8 Ar9 Ar10 Ar11 Ar12 Ar13
#LM 4 8 21 64 152 464 1328
Tsai and Jordan, JPC 97, 11227 (1993)
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Global optimization strategies
*Applications of evolutionary computation in chemistry,Structure and Bonding, Vol. 110 (2004)
• Exhaustive search: too many minima to sample.
• Random sampling:”But there’s one I always miss.”
• Genetic algorithm is based on “the fittest survive” principle. It has been proven efficient for the global optimization of clusters and molecules.*
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Genetic algorithm based global optimization
Produce random structures as initial population.
Evaluate energy (fitness) for each individual.
Repeat following steps until convergence:
Perform competitive selection.
Apply genetic operators* to produce new clusters.
Lower energy clusters replace higher-energy ones.
*Genetic operators: crossover and mutation.
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Biological crossover and mutation
Crossover of 2 DNA strings
Mutation:1 missing nucleotide
missing nucleotidenormal
after mutation
normal after crossover
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Si10H16
Si18H22Si14H18Si10H14
Si14H20 Si18H24
Diamond-lattice SixHy global minima
SixHy-2 global minima
MP2 & DFT
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SixHy global minima
SixFy global minima
Si10H16 Si10H14Si7H14 Si8H14
Si7F14 Si8F14 Si10F16 Si10F14
MP2 & DFT
DFT
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Ligand effect
• Si10(CH3)16 and Si10H16 adopt the same diamond-lattice Si core.
• Si10(OH)16 and Si10F16 adopt same Si core with a 4-membered Si ring.
• Ligand electronegativity affects the Si core structures.
• -SiF3 and -Si(OH)3 are preferred at expenses of forming small 4-membered Si rings.
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What did we learn?
• GA is efficient, scaling O(N4-5).• Well H-passivated Si clusters adopt diamond-lattice Si cores.
• Si core can be tuned with # ligands.• Si core can be tuned with ligand electronegativity. SixCly and SixBry?
• Further study the excitation and photon-emitting mechanism of Si nanoclusters.
• Questions and comments?
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Nuclear Energy• Additional energy source: less fight on oil.
• No SO2 - less acid rains.
• No CO2 - less global warming. Let’s try to keep New York & Shanghai above sea.
http://globalwarming--awareness2007.com/globalwarming-awareness2007/
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What about the safety?
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Layer 3. Silicon carbide is impervious to fission products and serves as a pressure vessel.
Layer 4. Pyrolytic carbon to protect SiC.
Layer 2. Pyrolytic carbon to trap fission products.
http://www.iaea.org/inis/aws/htgr/fulltext/xa54410.08.pdf
Layer 1. Porous carbon to accommodate fission products andkernel swelling.
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Chemical vapor deposition
• CVD: gas phase molecules break down at high T; fragments deposit on a substrate to account for the solid growth.
CH4 C H2
inlets
outlet
substrate
http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/tech.php?taid=&id=2345958&lid=1
diamond growth
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Silicon carbide (SiC) coating process
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Coater Wall
Deposition ZoneAnnealing Zone
Uranium Particles
precursors
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Why silicon carbide?
• High melting point: 2700 C. • Mohs’ hardness: 9.3/10.• Imperviousness to fission products.• Lower reactivity at high temperature.
• Low cost.• SiC made by chemical vapor deposition is ideal material for the protective layer of nuclear energy pellets.
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P: Defects in the SiC layer cause cracks on the surfaces of nuclear energy pellets.
Q: How to reduce defects in SiC?
A: Understand the mechanism of the SiC chemical vapor deposition. Propose ideal production condition.
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• Detailed Reaction Kinetics for Modeling of Nuclear Fuel Pellet Coating for High Temperature Reactors.
• Drs. Gordon and Ge from the chemistry department.
• Drs. Fox and Gao from the chemical engineering department.
• Drs. Battaglia and Vedula from the mechanical engineering department.
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Chemical vapor deposition of SiC
Precursors: CH3SiCl3 (methyltrichlorosilane)Temperature: 1000-2000 KPressure: ~1 atm Complex gas-phase and surface chemistryCH3SiCl3 SiC (solid) + 3HCl
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CH3SiCl3 decomposition pathways G = H - TS in
kcal/mol at 0 K (left) and 1400 K
(right)
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50 gas phase species
Cl, Cl2, H, H2, HCl, C2H, C2H2, C2H3, C2H3Cl,
C2H4, C2H5, C2H5Cl, C2H6(e), C2H6, 1CH2, 3CH2,
CH2C, CH2Cl, CH2Cl2, CH3, CH3CH(s), CH3Cl,
CH4, HCHC, Si2Cl4, Si2Cl5, Si2Cl6, SiCl2,
SiCl3, SiCl4, SiH2Cl, SiH2Cl2, SiH3Cl, SiHCl,
SiHCl2, SiHCl3, CH2SiCl2, CH2SiCl3, CH2SiHCl,
CH2SiHCl2, CH3SiCl, CH3SiCl2, CH3SiCl2Cl,
CH3SiCl3, CH3SiH2Cl, CH3SiHCl, CH3SiHCl2,
HCSiCl, 1CHSiCl3, 3CHSiCl3
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41 reactions without a transition state
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To be continued …
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73 reactions with a transition state
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Reduced mechanism• Our collaborators, including the chemical engineers and mechanical engineers, also complained about the long lists.
• How to reduce it?• Remove the species whose concentration is very low at high temperatures.
• Keep important species such as 3CH2, CH3, SiCl2, and SiCl3 as target molecules.
• Remove 1 species at a time and compare the reduced and full mechanisms.
• Reduced to 28 species and 29 reactions.
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Surface reactions: deposition
• Surface reactions involve thousands of atoms.
• Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method.
Accuracy System size
Quantum mechanics
1 kcal/mol
tens of atoms
Molecular mechanics
10 kcal/mol
millions of atoms
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(bulk)-C3SiCl
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QM + MM regions
QM region
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CH
Si
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MM region
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MM region
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H attacks Cl
HCl leaving
H3C attacks Si*
Forming H3C-Si bond
1). Production of Si*. 2). Si-C growth.
MM region
MM region
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What did we learn?
• A gas phase mechanism was proposed in the silicon carbide chemical vapor deposition.
• The gas phase mechanism was reduced to 28 species and 29 reactions.
• How temperature and precursor concentration affect gas phase chemistry.
• Surface chemistry under investigation.• Questions and comments?
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Research plan
• Atomic layer deposition of Al2O3, TiO2, and SiO2.
• Global optimization of protein structures.
• Astrochemistry in ice.• Chemical vapor deposition of diamond C, pyrolytic C, and bulk Si.
• Fast global optimization of large silicon clusters.
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Atomic layer deposition
• ALD is based on sequential, self-limiting surface chemical reactions.
• Precise atomic layer control: no defects!
http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/GeorgeResearchGroup/intro/aldcartoon.GIF
repeat
A
B
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Vanadium oxide (VxOy) catalyzed oxidative
dehydrogenation• Experimental energy barrier: 20-30 kcal/mol.
• Theoretical energy barrier: 45-80 kcal/mol.
• What’s wrong? Vanadium oxide is supported by the ALD produced Al2O3, SiO2, or TiO2 surfaces.
• How to model an ALD surface?• How does the ALD surface help lower the energy barrier of C3H8 + 1/2O2 C3H6 + H2O?
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Global optimization of protein structures:
important for drug design
primary structure
secondary structure
quaternary structure
tertiary structure
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Global optimization methods
• Random sampling: 30 dihedral angles each with 5 possible values. 530 (~1 billion trillion) conformations.
• Molecular dynamics: some proteins fold in minutes; energy and force need to be evaluated 1018 times (t=10-15s).
• Genetic algorithm + Tabu + In situ adaptive tabulation.
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• Genetic algorithm.
crossover mutation
dihedral angles
a). Enew Eoldb). Enew wiEioldc). compute Enew
1
2
• Tabu (taboo): to penalize the moves to previously visited conformations.• In situ adaptive tabulation. {1… N} -> E
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Potential energy surface of 1H2O2
1O+H2O 50.8
1O-H2O 50.0
1H2O-O 15.7
1TS1 19.2
1O2 + H2 29.7
1HOOH -30.0
1TS2 70.2
1TS3
2OH + 2OH 16.1
2H + 2HOO 54.9 1TS4
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CCSD(T)(kcal/mol)
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Probable Reaction Paths to HOOH
• 1O + H2O 1H2O-O HOOH• 1O2 + H2 1H2O-O HOOH
• 1O (3O) + H2O 2OH + 2OH HOOH
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Future work
• Study the reaction paths at higher level of theories.
• Study the potential energy surfaces that involves cations such as 2O+.
• Reaction rate constant calculations.• Molecular dynamics calculations.• Elucidation of H2O2 formation mechanism.
• Study of H2O2 reaction paths in a biological environment.
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Acknowledgements
Prof. John D. Head at University of Hawaii
Prof. Mark S. Gordon at Iowa State University
Department of Energy Grant# DE-FC07-05ID14661
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Crossover and mutation: Si only cluster
Deaven and Ho, PRL 75, 288 (1995)
A
B
a
b
a
B
A
b
crossover
mutation
local opt.
local opt.
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Reaction rate constant
k(T) kB T
h G / RT
e
kB -- Boltzmann constantT -- temperatureh -- Planck constantR -- Gas constant
G -- Free energy barrier (some times hard to obtain)
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GTS
-20
0
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40
60
80
100
120
1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
R(H---CH3) (angstrom)
Rela
tive G
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ol)
400
1200
2000
T (K)
R=3.0 Åat 2000 K
Free Energy Profile of CH4 H + CH3 R=3.6 Åat 400 K
R=3.4 Åat 1200 K
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Molecular dynamics approximations for A + B A-B
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k(T) ge (T)(8kBT
)1/ 2(bmax
2 )(Preact )
Elec. degeneracy
Collision area
Reaction probability
Relative velocity
k(T) ge (T)() 1/ 2bmax2
: reduced mass.: symmetry factor.
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Predict k: from CH3 + H H-CH3
to CX3 + Y Y-CX3
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log
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predictionexperiment
CH3+F
CH3+Cl
CF3+F
CCl3+Cl
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Predict k
• k1 (2CH3 + 2H 1CH4)• k2 (3CH2 + 2H 2CH3) Free energy barrier is hard
to get.
k2(T) /k1(T) [ge 2(T) /ge1(T)](2 /1) 1/ 2( 2 /1)
k2(T) /k1(T)
(1
3/1
4)(
14
15/15
16) 1/ 2(1/2)
0.668
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(7.9)
(47.7)
(16.9)
(75.9)
(59.8)
(69.7)
(64.6)
(34.2)
PES of SiCl3 + H2
Si: blueCl: greenH: light grey
G at 0 K(kcal/mol)
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Predict k: from CH3 + CH3 CH3-CH3
to CX3 +
CY3 CX3-CY3
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CH3+CCl3
CCl3+CCl3
CH3+SiH3
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