Evolution of electronic and ionic structure of Mg-clusters with the growth cluster size

The optimized structure and electronic properties of neutral and singly charged magnesium clusters have been investigated using ab initio theoretical methods based on density-functional theory and systematic post-Hartree-Fock many-body perturbation theory accounting for all electrons in the system. We have systematically calculated the optimized geometries of neutral and singly charged magnesium clusters consisting of up to 21 atoms, electronic shell closures, binding energies per atom, ionization potentials and the gap between the highest occupied and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals. We have investigated the transition to the hcp structure and metallic evolution of the magnesium clusters, as well as the stability of linear chains and rings of magnesium atoms. The results obtained are compared with the available experimental data and the results of other theoretical works.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figures, 3 table

On the applicability of deformed jellium model to the description of metal clusters

This work is devoted to the elucidation the applicability of jellium model to the description of alkali cluster properties on the basis of comparison the jellium model results with those derived from experiment and within ab initio theoretical framework. On the basis of the Hartree-Fock and local-density approximation deformed jellium model we have calculated the binding energies per atom, ionization potentials, deformation parameters and the optimized values of the Wigner-Seitz radii for neutral and singly charged sodium clusters with the number of atoms $N \leq 20$. These characteristics are compared with the results derived from the ab initio all-electron simulations of cluster electronic and ionic structure based on the density functional theory as well as on the post Hartree-Fock perturbation theory on many-electron correlation interaction. The comparison performed demonstrates the great role of cluster shape deformations in the formation cluster properties and the quite reasonable level of applicability of the deformed jellium model

A new type of modified brassinosteroids for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

New modified brassinosteroids (BS) with a full set of specific functional groups and with an additional one at C-26 have been synthesized and used as haptens for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The haptens were conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BS

Spheroidal cap configurations of atomic clusters on planar surfaces

Deposited atomic cluster configurations are investigated under the hypothesis of spheroidal cap shapes being a stable geometry. The macroscopic-microscopic method is employed to calculate the deformation energy. A new specialized single-particle model is developed in order to account for the quantum effects, and the liquid-drop approach is used to calculate the macroscopic part of the energy. The minima within the total deformation energy are interpreted as equilibrium states of atomic clusters on surfaces. Calculations have been performed for the metallic clusters of Na with atom numbers N = 20, 70 and 200