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We are using gaussian G-16 to calculate molecular properties. When I specigy in the rout line def2qzvpp ( #P B3LYP/def2qzvpp opt output=pickett) with RU (Ruthenium atom in the atom list) -- Does the Gaussian do an ALL ELECTRON calculation -OR- use a core potential (ECP) for the Ru atom?
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For gaussian, when I want to use mixed basis sets or basis sets that are not implemented in the code I usually use the GENECP keyword (https://gaussian.com/gen/) and I specify the basis sets after the coordinates inthe input file. You can find the syntax in the example part of the website.
You can get the basis sets not implemented using the BSE (basis set exchange) https://www.basissetexchange.org/. Just select the atoms to include, the basis set and choose the format as "gaussian" in the box bellow the periodic table. You may then be able to click "get basis set" and copy the correct data to paste in the input file. I'll attach prints for reference.
Also, I'm attaching a simple water input where I imported the aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z for H and O from the BSE website, so you can check the correct syntax.
Hope it helps for you to figure out an option to deal with this.
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I want to simulate two different ceramic structures. Each of the structures has a different number of atoms. I divided my simulation box into two parts. Now, in the create_atom section, I don't know how to define three atoms for one box.
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Follow this link for your LAMMPS questions.
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Can anyone give clear explanation add parameters for it to the parameter library first for auto dock. Because Ni atom is not in the library it seems? Step by step instruction.
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Hello, thank you, we will take it into account in our future work.
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Is gravity responsible for holding atoms and molecules together and how the force of gravity is responsible for the moon's motion around the Earth?
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There are two fundamental forces that hold the atom together: strong nuclear force and electrostatic force. The nucleus of the atom contains protons and neutrons. Protons have a positive charge, and neutrons have no electrical charge. Chemical bond refers to the forces holding atoms together to form molecules and solids. This force is of an electric nature, and the attraction between electrons of one atom to the nucleus of another atom contributes to what is known as chemical bonds. But atoms are stable, which means that there is an existence of another force within the nucleus which is stronger than the gravitational force and electromagnetic force. - Therefore strong nuclear forces are responsible for holding the nuclei of various atoms together in the molecule. The electromagnetic force typically acts over much shorter distances than gravitation, but is much stronger. It is the force that affects interactions of atoms and molecules. As with the gravitational force as the charged particles get closer together, the interaction (whether attractive or repulsive) gets stronger. The Moon revolves around the Earth in a circular motion due to the centripetal gravitational force of the Earth. The moon revolving round the earth in circular orbit is held by the gravitational force of the earth exerted on the moon. The Earth has a gravitational force on the Moon, and the Moon has a gravitational pull on the Earth that is equal and opposing. The Moon is kept in orbit around us by the gravity of the Earth. It constantly shifting the Moon's velocity direction.
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Should I click something in ADTools when the article says "each atom was assigned an “autodock type” or ADT assigns it automatically?
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For some reason I do not have this option. Atoms: only Assign Radii, type and edit type are available
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I need to calculate the conductivity of the my material. From the previous reported articles i got these formulas
1. σ ∝ exp(-Eg/2*Kb*T)
Kb - Boltzmann constant
T - Temperature (in kelvin)
Eg - Energy gap (in eV)
2. σ = A*T^3/2 exp(-Eg/2*Kb*T)
Kb - Boltzmann constant
T - Temperature (in kelvin)
Eg - Energy gap (in eV)
A - constant ( in some article it is mentioned as Richardson Constant = 6 * 10^5 A/m^2)
3. σ = A*T^3/2 exp(-Eg/Kb*T)
Kb - Boltzmann constant
T - Temperature (in kelvin)
Eg - Energy gap (in eV)
A - constant
among the above formulas which one is correct to calculate conductivity?
Ref:
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@Akielesh, None of the formulas you give can be considered correct for calculating the connectivity of a new material.
In general you have that the connectivity is given by the carrier concentration and the carrier mobility.( 1/sigma = n*my ; n=carrier concentration, my=mobility)
Both carrier concentration and mobility has a temperature dependence which is different, and for a given material the dominating temperature dependence varies with temperature. For many technological important semiconductors, the conductivity is following the temperature dependence of the carrier concentration at high temperature. The carrier concentrating temperature dependence will in simple models have the temperature dependence of equation at high temperatures. It means that the energy gap can be determined experimentally by plotting the log of sigma vs 1/T , and from the slope of the straight line fit get Eg/2. It is a common way to check that the material behaves like a semiconductor. You see that this temperature dependence is in your given equation 2. In equation the exponential term has a dominating temperature dependence over the term T^(3/2). The latter comes from the temperature dependence of the effective density of states in, and reflects that the energy distribution of carriers will vary with temperature.
The high temperature region where the temperature dependence follows equation 2 is usually called the “intrinsic “ region.
Your eq1 and eq2 gives the correct temperature dependence for the intrinsic region.Your equation 3 could be a print error. a factor 2 missing. The exponent. does not describe that region.
One can have a situation where you don’t have free carriers for conduction, but the movement of a carrier requires an activated jump over a barrier. (Some might call the energy barrier a gap) and you would have a exp(-E/kT)
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I am a beginner in molecular dynamics, it would be of great help if someone could help me in rectifying the problem.I am attaching the input files along with the dump file for reference.
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How did you decide how many ions to pack in a simulation box ?
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I have two rotamers from crystal structure data. I like to use the QST2 transition state search in Gaussian to investigate their interconversion barrier. Since they come from crystal structure data, the atom numbering/ordering of the two optimized rotamers is different. With around 100 atoms, I would really prefer not to try and renumber them by hand. Is there any automatic structure match and renumber routine out there, which would produce the two geometries with matching numbering?
Alternatively, if I have to go via the "traditional" TS search: is there any program which would allow to match/align two structures and to calculate an "averaged" structure from this? But I assume those would also require matching numbering...
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In addition to a great answer from Lucas Gian Fachini, I suggest you try out the "connection editor" of GaussView.
You open the structures of your rotamers in a single window and use the connection editor to match the numbers automatically or manually (sometimes! It is unavoidable. In my case, methyl groups). There, you will find multiple options to renumber; this can also help you get a good starting z-matrix (optimization in internal coordinates is generally better than in cartesian coordinates).
A quick way to get a TS guess is to interpolate between two structures; I use interpolation in internal coordinate or geodesic interpolation code (https://github.com/virtualzx-nad/geodesic-interpolate/tree/master). The latter code implements the method described in the paper " Geodesic interpolation for reaction pathways." You may need to write a custom code to extract information from the output.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Dilawar
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According to my research: the whole universe works like a big star.
At first, the environment of the big star expands. Then the terminal bodies collapse and the star's environment shrinks. And these events are repeated several times. Expansion, contraction, re-expansion, contraction.
Each time the kernel size gets smaller. Finally, three things happen.
1- The big collision with the star and destruction. 2- Ejecting all objects around the star and exploding the core of the star. 3- The star shrinks to the size of an atom.
I prepared an article about the birth to death of a star with all the details and mathematical formulas.
Everything is based on classical physics.
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I built a completely different atomic model based on classical physics.
The formation of the core, the formation of magnetic waves in the core, the existence of rings, etc. are described moment by moment. In this model, Kopler's laws are automatically proven, the reason for the formation of the Kuiper belts is determined, and the total mass of the planets in each ring is determined.
Based on my findings:
1- First, two invisible worlds meet. Two pages m and n.
Static electricity is created between them. As a result, large sparks occur. Each spark forms a world. If we put all the worlds in one plane c, plane c rotates between two planes m and n.
Conclusion: The earth revolves around the sun. Our sun orbits another sun, possibly the star Sirius.And the star Sirius revolves around another star. And they all revolve around the Milky Way. The reason for rotation: convective flow of heat and cold. And ultimately we all revolve around the center of our universe. And everything revolves around the axis of existence.
2- As a result of the primary spark collision: first the tiny atoms, then the first waves
which are neutrinos, is created. Then, atoms are formed by the first collisions. Larger nuclei are formed by the collision of atoms. "Nuclear fuel"
3- The core of the star is complete when the gases around it run out. And the core does not get bigger. At the same time as the nuclei are formed, the shell is also formed. Inside the core of the star, nuclear fusion has ended. This is where my main model starts. With all the details and based on classical physics.4- During the expansion and contraction of the star, the volume of the star core does not increase or decrease.
Star expansion: The distance between the rings around the star is getting farther apart.
Contraction means: the rings around the star are getting closer.
Shrinking the core means destroying the star's outer rings. For example, if the star has 8 rings, it will have 6 rings when it shrinks.
5- If a star loses all its rings, its core will explode.
Important: Reducing the rings does not mean removing the ring. Removed loops are stretched to infinity and lose their effectiveness.
Full explanation of the formulas after presenting my nuclear model. Thank you
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There are various types of antiferromagnetic states,of which A-,C- and G- type are of my interest.These types depend upon the configuration of spins.
When the (magnetic) atoms are at corners, it is easy to assign spin orientation to each to get the three states.However,when they are face-centered and edge-centered, i face issues in assigning the orientations.Kindly, help me out.,which to keep up and which down.
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I would probably proceed in this way -- take your unit cell and double it in any direction. Then shift it by half a unit vector -- you should have displaced some of the Mn atoms back to the corners. Construct your anti-ferromagnetic states and then revert to your unit cell. Does this give you back the same structures for A and G?
On the other hand, it is possible that with your reduced symmetry the two antiferromagnetic configurations are the same.
Regards,
Roberto
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Do the atomic orbitals of the same atom have the same energy under different chemical conditions? In other words, can atomic orbital energy be changed by external changes? For example, does Fe(OH)3 have the same atomic orbital energy as Fe in Fe2O3?
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Do not. Each orbital has its own energy, and it can be calculated by means of ab initio calculations with the Schrödinger equation. Programs as Gaussian, Gamess, and many others can do it.
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I have a protein, for which I want to computationally study the effect of its phosphorylation. I was able to add a phosphoryl group to my desired THR residue and the structure looks fine. However, when I try to generate topology using gmx_pdb2gmx, it does not work. I figured it has to do with the extra phosphoryl that i added, which is naturally absent in the aminoacids.rtp file. Hence, I manually created another entry namely "pTHR", where I added the charges for the THR along with the phosphoryl. I tried to generate the topology once again, but its still not accepting it. Kindly tell me if anyone has done it before on gromacs. Thanks, ahead of time.
My phosphothreonine looks like this:
ATOM 2808 N pTHR A 174 231.841 -74.271 -80.471 1.00 0.00 N
ATOM 2809 H pTHR A 174 231.591 -73.451 -81.001 1.00 0.00 H
ATOM 2810 CA pTHR A 174 231.141 -75.531 -80.731 1.00 0.00 C
ATOM 2811 HA pTHR A 174 230.571 -75.901 -79.881 1.00 0.00 H
ATOM 2812 CB pTHR A 174 230.081 -75.331 -81.901 1.00 0.00 C
ATOM 2813 HB pTHR A 174 230.651 -75.081 -82.791 1.00 0.00 H
ATOM 2814 CG2pTHR A 174 229.231 -76.511 -82.181 1.00 0.00 C
ATOM 2815 1HG2pTHR A 174 228.451 -76.411 -82.951 1.00 0.00 H
ATOM 2816 2HG2pTHR A 174 229.861 -77.351 -82.471 1.00 0.00 H
ATOM 2817 3HG2pTHR A 174 228.771 -76.881 -81.261 1.00 0.00 H
ATOM 2818 OG1pTHR A 174 229.141 -74.291 -81.511 1.00 0.00 O
ATOM 2819 C pTHR A 174 232.111 -76.601 -81.201 1.00 0.00 C
ATOM 2820 O pTHR A 174 232.911 -76.371 -82.101 1.00 0.00 O
ATOM 2821 P pTHR A 174 227.940 -74.052 -82.816 1.00 0.00 P
ATOM 2822 O1 pTHR A 174 227.269 -72.653 -82.656 1.00 0.00 O
ATOM 2823 O2 pTHR A 174 228.744 -74.140 -84.379 1.00 0.00 O
ATOM 2824 O3 pTHR A 174 226.709 -75.306 -82.719 1.00 0.00 O
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Which FF you are using?
Nowadays, Forcefields inherently supports the phosphorylation of various reisudes, you donot need to add them.
You can read further on this one here:
For adding your desired residue, you need to follow steps outlined here:
Just a quick fix, instead of using pTHR, just name it to THX or some 3 digit letter, alongwith follow the steps of how to add residue in a forece field.
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Fatal error:
Atom HD1 in residue HIS 822 was not found in rtp entry HSE with 17 atoms while sorting atoms.
For a hydrogen, this can be a different protonation state, or it
might have had a different number in the PDB file and was rebuilt
(it might for instance have been H3, and we only expected H1 & H2).
Note that hydrogens might have been added to the entry for the N-terminus.
Remove this hydrogen or choose a different protonation state to solve it.
Option -ignh will ignore all hydrogens in the input.
I also Followed the suggestion to using -ignh in the code but it give me this error:
Fatal error:
Atom OXT in residue VAL 961 was not found in rtp entry VAL with 16 atoms
while sorting atoms.
Would anyone please help me? I can't concentrate on my studies unless I solve them.
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Histidin can be either delta or epsilon protonated, and it is user's responsibility to check the protonation state. Before runing the gmx pdb2gmx, you should have set this protonation state and change the residue name to HIE (epsilon protonated) or HID (delta protonated). Although, pdb2gmx can approximatly guess the protonation state which are fairley good.
Since, you ignore the Hydrogen atoms, pdb2gmx will rebuilt all those h-atoms based on the residue entery of the forcefield.
OXT seems to be the terminal atom. Is Val961 is the terminal residue? Do you have proper TER record in your pdb?
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In this image, d orbital splitting at fermi energy of (a) Mn atoms in bulk (b) Mn atoms at the interface of MgO (c) Mn atoms above the interface of thin film. CF (SOC) denotes Crystal field (Spin orbit coupling). I'm little confused about the eg and t2g as in this image, there are group of three in (a). Whats the explainantion for this?
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Dear Prof. Mohit Verma
Let us wait for the answer of an specialist in crystal theory.
In general the crystal field theory assumes that the nature of the ligands and their arrangement around a central ion (with a complex symmetry such as octahedral) reduces the degeneracy of the d orbitals and changes their energy.
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am trying to make POSCAR file and xyz file using vasp for NbReSi compound using VESTA. However, I notice that the number of atoms for xyz file is given as 41 whereas for POSCAR is it 36. Can anyone kind to explain why there is the difference? The cif file is given here.
#(C) 2023 by FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. All rights reserved.
data_600059-ICSD
_database_code_ICSD 600059
_audit_creation_date 2013-02-01
_audit_update_record 2019-08-01
_chemical_name_common 'Niobium rhenium silicide (1/1/1)'
_chemical_formula_structural 'Nb Re Si'
_chemical_formula_sum 'Nb1 Re1 Si1'
_chemical_name_structure_type TiFeSi
_exptl_crystal_density_diffrn 11.45
_citation_title
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Structure and superconductivity studies on ternary equiatomic silicides, MM'Si
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_publ_section_comment 'Cell and Type only determined'
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_citation_id
_citation_journal_full
_citation_year
_citation_journal_volume
_citation_page_first
_citation_page_last
_citation_journal_id_ASTM
primary 'Bulletin of Materials Science' 1985 7 215 228 BUMSDW
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_citation_author_citation_id
_citation_author_name
primary 'Subba Rao, G.V.'
primary 'Wagner, K.'
primary 'Balakrishnan, Geetha'
primary 'Janaki, J.'
primary 'Paulus, W.'
primary 'Schoellhorn, R.'
primary 'Subramanian, V.S.'
primary 'Poppe, U.'
_cell_length_a 7.070(5)
_cell_length_b 11.442(5)
_cell_length_c 6.606(5)
_cell_angle_alpha 90.
_cell_angle_beta 90.
_cell_angle_gamma 90.
_cell_volume 534.39
_cell_formula_units_Z 12
_space_group_name_H-M_alt 'I m a 2'
_space_group_IT_number 46
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_space_group_symop_id
_space_group_symop_operation_xyz
1 'x+1/2, -y, z'
2 '-x+1/2, y, z'
3 '-x, -y, z'
4 'x, y, z'
5 'x, -y+1/2, z+1/2'
6 '-x, y+1/2, z+1/2'
7 '-x+1/2, -y+1/2, z+1/2'
8 'x+1/2, y+1/2, z+1/2'
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_atom_type_symbol
_atom_type_oxidation_number
Re0+ 0
Nb0+ 0
Si0+ 0
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_atom_site_type_symbol
_atom_site_symmetry_multiplicity
_atom_site_Wyckoff_symbol
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_atom_site_B_iso_or_equiv
_atom_site_occupancy
Re1 Re0+ 4 a 0 0 0.2501 . 1.
Re2 Re0+ 8 c 0.0295 0.3764 0.12 . 1.
Nb1 Nb0+ 4 b 0.25 0.2004 0.2964 . 1.
Nb2 Nb0+ 4 b 0.25 0.7793 0.2707 . 1.
Nb3 Nb0+ 4 b 0.25 0.9979 0.9178 . 1.
Si1 Si0+ 4 b 0.25 0.9747 0.5055 . 1.
Si2 Si0+ 8 c 0.006 0.1675 0.9953 . 1.
#End of TTdata_600059-ICSD
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There are 41 Atoms generated to show you a single unit cell, whereas, continuing towards infinite lattice, there would be 36 Atoms per unit cell. Get it?
If you have VESTA available, you would see, simpling bringing Re atoms at (0,0,0) would change no. of Atoms to 47.
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Hi, guys. I started doing some dockings a few days ago and there was an constantly error showing up on the autodocktools cmd:
"swig/python detected a memory leak of type 'BHtree *', no destructor found." (PFA a printscreen of the error).
The error kept showing up after every command i gave. For example, after every missing atom added it showed up again. I didn't mind at first, because everything was working just fine, even though I was wondering if my results would be realiable with such an error.
But now, there is another error showing up on the autodock (You can also find a printscreen attached), and i can't dock anything anymore. I have already tried reinstalling autodock and MGLtools.
Has anyone had this same errors? Would you know how can I solve it? Just making clear that I'm not familiar with programming.
Thank you so much!
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Hello everyone. Did anyone get it solved? I am facing the same problem.
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I am trying to run MD calculations with an RNA aptamer in Amber. The first step (detachement of hydrogens) occurs fine:
pdb4amber -y -i 7kd1.pdb -o apt-nh.pdb
However, this command gives the message:
"The following residues had alternate locations: U_21"
Than, I go with a command @tleap -f leaprc.RNA.OL3@ which works fine.
Than I print:
rec=loadpdb apt-nh.pdb
which results in:
Created a new atom named: P within residue: .R<G5 1>
Created a new atom named: OP1 within residue: .R<G5 1>
Created a new atom named: OP2 within residue: .R<G5 1>
Created a new atom named: OP3 within residue: .R<G5 1>
total atoms in file: 1914
Leap added 961 missing atoms according to residue templates:
961 H / lone pairs
The file contained 4 atoms not in residue templates
I type:
set default PBRadii mbondi2
Finally, I try to generate a topology file "saveamberparm rec apt.prmtop apt.inpcrd", which results in:
Warning: The unperturbed charge of the unit (-88.000000) is not zero.
FATAL: Atom .R<G5 1>.A<P 33> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<G5 1>.A<OP1 34> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<G5 1>.A<OP2 35> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<G5 1>.A<OP3 36> does not have a type.
Error: Failed to generate parameters
Warning: Parameter file was not saved.
However, when I look through the pdb file I cannot see abnormalities or missing atom types. So what is wrong with my pdb file (attached)?
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It seems like the issue might be related to the naming of the atoms in your PDB file. The error message "Atom .R<G5 1>.A<P 33> does not have a type" suggests that the atom types are not recognized by the parameter files in Amber.
One common issue could be the naming convention used in the PDB file. Make sure that the atom names in your PDB file match the atom names expected by Amber. You can check the atom names in the parameter files provided by Amber and ensure that they match the atom names in your PDB file.
Additionally, it's possible that there might be some missing atom types or parameters in the force field files you are using. Double-check that you have loaded the correct force field parameters in tleap and that they include parameters for all the atom types in your system.
If you continue to encounter issues, you may want to check the atom names and types in your PDB file carefully, compare them with the force field parameters, and ensure they are consistent. You can also try visualizing your system in a molecular visualization software like CHARM GUI to check for any anomalies in atom names or types that might be causing the error.
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In Cuprous Oxide Cu2O(111) lattice when oxygen atoms from upper three surfaces are removed there two types of sites are generated- vacancy and interstitial site. How can I identify which one is vacancy and which one is interstitial?
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No direct answer!
Because when disorder comes, both descriptions are one and the same
If Cu2O has one oxygen removed, it needs to leave as neutral atom. So, we have two copper(I) ions, one empty place where there used to be oxide ions and two electrons.
Now, It can be possible that, the negative electrons remain attached to the oxygen vacancy. At that spot, formerly sat oxide ion, being surrounded by more cation than anion as before, and electrostatically stabilized.
But the vacancy can be ionized, letting the electrons lose in the cuprous oxide matrix.
What about the remaining copper(i) ions? Do they want to leave their site?
Close to them, when there was an oxide, and even two electrons, there was electrostatic attraction to stabilize. Once there is a 'surface vacancy' with no charge, they are more free to ream into lattice, roll on top surface and go even inside bulk of lattice. These extra ions might tuck hard into interstices of cuprous oxide.
Now, think like this - would you call a formerly lattice site occupied by an anion that have been open to surface, but now empty of even electrons, a vacant lattice site, or an empty vacuum spot adjacent to lattice? choose and suit yourself. But of course, if that site is filled up by an oxide from inside, the place just this new oxide ion left is indeed a vacancy
And what about former spots of cuprous cations exposed to surface? do you treat those vacancies of lattice points, or vacant lattice spaces near laattice, where new atoms are likely not to come. The dislodged cations can roll onto surface, get tucked into other sweet spots on surface. Those new-spots on surface would be your new lattice points, and to compete the charge neutrality, you need to imagine a vacant lattice site as well, where the oxygen never came. If those unruly cupous cations get inside bulk, they are interstitials!
So in short, whether you see as two cuprous cations at lattice site and a vacant site where oxygen were supposed to come (1 oxygen vacancy); or two cuprous cation coming from somewhere else trying to tuck themselves here and there (2 copper (i) interstitials), both points to the very same thing.
BTW, do you consider whole of empty part of 3D space filled with one oxide vacancy for two cuprous vacancies? ponder and you'd get the whole point.
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I am trying to calculate a pore size distribution of a polymer(PIM-1) which data file is in united atom model. I have tried with zeo++ software but the it only allows upto 2.4 A radius for psd calculation. However, in my united atom model the highest radius is 6.4 A.
Could anyone please suggest me how I can calculate the pore size distribution?
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Increasing polymer concentration shifts the pore size distribution of fabricated gas-liquid membrane contactors toward smaller pores. liquid–liquid displacement porosimetry (LLDP) is a method used to determine pore size distribution in polymeric membranes with good accuracy and reproducibility. Calculate pore size distribution for a polymer using two-phase volume ratio R, radius of secondary particle S2, and probability P(x) that a given pore contains x vacant particles, revealing that when particle concentration decreases, average pore size increases.
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Everyone knows simple classical model of dielectric susceptibility called Lorentz oscillator model, in other words, spring mass model. But I can't find it's all parameter values for different atoms: resonance (spontaneous) frequency - ω0 = \sqrt{k/m}, 2) effective mass of electron - m, 3) damping coefficient - γ = 1/τ, τ - relaxation/scattering time. If there are experimenters or specialists from relating fields which have knowledge of handbooks, databases, catalogs or any writings for experementers, of values of ω0, m, γ, plasma frequency ωp, real (refractive index or relative permittivity) and imaginary parts of susceptibilities \chi(1), please provide information on them.
Related question is the following: Has the Lorentz model expanded for diatomic, triatomic, ... multiatomic molecules? Is it useful for theoretical description of susceptibilities for multiatomic molecules? Why yes or why not? Please provide relevant information.
Thank you in advance...
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I PM'd you Thomas Mayerhöfer .
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I have tried to calculation Cs2AgBiBr6 double perovskites. This compound has a cubic symmetry and 40 atoms in unit cell.
I desired to ask;
1- 'nat'parameter is equal to 10 or 40 in scf file. which one?
The total number of atoms in Cs2AgBiBr6 is 10. But this compounds has 40 atoms in unit cell.
Best
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Roberto D'Agosta many thanks your valuable comment. I understand. You have been very helpful! Many thanks...
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Kindly assist with my challenge. I used stress/atom commands in LAMMPS to calculate Von miss stress and hydrostatic stress of a silicon nanometric cutting. Unfortunately or fortunately I got hydrostatic stress of maximum -3GPa and 1GPa which is low compared to 11GPa - 14GPa for Si and diamond tool with 204241 atoms. Note, the hydrostatic stress is for tool atoms group. I attached the stress part of the script. If there is a need to attach the entire script, I will.
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Daniel Jacob Bilar . Thanks for your insights. I will try your suggestions.
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There are atoms that can count a second with a very big precision if they are "asked" to do it. The best known today are cesium and strontium, to my knowledge. But the question is to know if in each of these atoms is there a single perfect transition to do this work or is it possible that there are several in a same atom?
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Dear Alessandro Rizzo,
Many thanks.
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Hi everyone, I wanna check the intermolecular interactions between an ion (ex. Ca 2+) and an organic molecule (ex. chitosan). I did the same project before to check the electrical potential changes by changing the distance between two atoms by Gaussian. Now I wanna do the same project on ions and organic molecules.
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Hello Arman,
I think you may need to check the electrostatic potential (ESP) or the local electron attachment energy (LEAE) changes of the ion, before and after the coordination, using a wavefunction analyzing function or software (e.g. Multiwfn 3.8).
Moreover, do you need to study a single coordination bond? If you do, analyzing relaxed force constants may be helpful.
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For metal ions, an example entry in the parameter file is:
atom_par Tc 3.00 0.048 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4
atom_par U XXX XXXX XXXX XXXXX 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4
atom_par Re 2.95 0.066 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4
The first four numbers are the ones to change: Rii = sum of vdW radii of two like atoms (in Angstrom) epsii = vdW well depth (in Kcal/mol) vol = atomic solvation volume (in Angstrom^3)  (4/3*pi*(Rii/2)**3) solpar = atomic solvation parameter
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Many thanks to Nur Aqilah Zahirah Norazmi
atom_par U 3.40 0.022 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par C 4.00 0.150 33.5103 -0.00143 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 0 # Non H-bonding
atom_par A 4.00 0.150 33.5103 -0.00052 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 0 # Non H-bonding
atom_par N 3.50 0.160 22.4493 -0.00162 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 1 # Non H-bonding
atom_par NA 3.50 0.160 22.4493 -0.00162 1.9 5.0 4 -1 -1 1 # Acceptor 1 H-bond
atom_par NS 3.50 0.160 22.4493 -0.00162 1.9 5.0 3 -1 -1 1 # Acceptor S Spherical
atom_par OA 3.20 0.200 17.1573 -0.00251 1.9 5.0 3 -1 -1 2 # Acceptor 2 H-bonds
atom_par OS 3.20 0.200 17.1573 -0.00251 1.9 5.0 3 -1 -1 2 # Acceptor S Spherical
atom_par SA 4.00 0.200 33.5103 -0.00214 2.5 1.0 5 -1 -1 6 # Acceptor 2 H-bonds
atom_par S 4.00 0.200 33.5103 -0.00214 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 6 # Non H-bonding
atom_par H 2.00 0.020 0.0000 0.00051 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 3 # Non H-bonding
atom_par HD 2.00 0.020 0.0000 0.00051 0.0 0.0 2 -1 -1 3 # Donor 1 H-bond
atom_par HS 2.00 0.020 0.0000 0.00051 0.0 0.0 1 -1 -1 3 # Donor S Spherical
atom_par P 4.20 0.200 38.7924 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 5 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Br 4.33 0.389 42.5661 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par BR 4.33 0.389 42.5661 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ca 1.98 0.550 2.7700 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par CA 1.98 0.550 2.7700 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Cl 4.09 0.276 35.8235 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-binding
atom_par CL 4.09 0.276 35.8235 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-binding
atom_par F 3.09 0.080 15.4480 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-binding
atom_par Fe 1.30 0.010 1.8400 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par FE 1.30 0.010 1.8400 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par I 4.72 0.550 55.0585 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-binding
atom_par Mg 1.30 0.875 1.5600 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par MG 1.30 0.875 1.5600 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Mn 1.30 0.875 2.1400 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par MN 1.30 0.875 2.1400 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Zn 1.48 0.550 1.7000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par ZN 1.48 0.550 1.7000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par He 2.36 0.056 15.240 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Li 2.45 0.025 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Be 2.76 0.085 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par B 4.08 0.180 12.052 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ne 3.24 0.042 15.440 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Na 3.98 0.030 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Al 4.49 0.505 11.278 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Si 4.30 0.402 12.175 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par K 3.81 0.035 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Sc 3.30 0.019 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ti 3.18 0.017 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par V 3.14 0.016 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 1 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Co 2.87 0.014 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ni 2.83 0.015 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Cu 3.50 0.005 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ga 4.38 0.415 11.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ge 4.28 0.379 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par As 4.23 0.309 13.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Se 4.21 0.291 14.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Kr 4.14 0.220 16.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Rb 4.11 0.040 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Sr 3.64 0.235 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Y 3.35 0.072 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Zr 3.12 0.069 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Nb 3.17 0.059 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Mo 3.05 0.056 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Tc 3.00 0.048 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ru 2.96 0.056 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Rh 2.93 0.053 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Pd 1.34 0.048 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ag 3.15 0.036 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Cd 2.85 0.228 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par In 4.46 0.599 11.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Sn 4.39 0.567 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Sb 4.42 0.449 13.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Te 4.47 0.398 14.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Xe 4.40 0.332 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Cs 4.52 0.045 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ba 3.70 0.364 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par La 3.52 0.017 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ce 3.56 0.013 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Pr 3.61 0.010 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Nd 3.58 0.010 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Pm 3.55 0.009 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Sm 3.52 0.008 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Eu 3.49 0.008 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Gd 3.37 0.009 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Tb 3.45 0.007 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Dy 3.43 0.007 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ho 3.41 0.007 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Er 3.39 0.007 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Tm 3.37 0.006 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Yb 3.36 0.228 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Lu 3.64 0.041 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Hf 3.41 0.072 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ta 3.71 0.081 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par W 3.07 0.067 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Re 2.95 0.066 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Os 3.12 0.120 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ir 2.84 0.073 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Pt 2.75 0.080 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Au 3.29 0.039 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Hg 2.71 0.385 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Tl 4.35 0.680 11.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Pb 4.30 0.663 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Bi 4.37 0.518 13.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Po 4.71 0.325 14.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par At 4.75 0.284 15.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Rn 4.77 0.248 16.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Fr 4.90 0.050 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ra 3.68 0.404 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Ac 3.48 0.033 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Th 3.40 0.026 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Pa 3.42 0.022 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par U 3.40 0.022 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Np 3.42 0.019 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Pu 3.42 0.016 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Am 3.38 0.014 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Cm 3.33 0.014 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Bk 3.34 0.013 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Cf 3.31 0.013 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par E 3.30 0.012 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
atom_par Fm 3.29 0.012 12.000 -0.00110 0.0 0.0 0 -1 -1 4 # Non H-bonding
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I established a model of Ca decorated graphene 2D material with c lattice constant 20A, and wanted to do hydrogen molecular adsorption, the process is like this
1 Optimize the graphene system structure under Ca decorated.
2 throw in two hydrogen atoms at a distance of 0.7A for molecular dynamics analysis.
But in the analysis I found that the two hydrogen atoms separated, and flow upward, and did not be adsorbed, is this right?.
Because When I set one hydrogen atom, it got adsorbed very quickly.
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here is the figure
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I have a doubt for coarse grained md simulation. I have used martinize.py script to model the protein. But from here I do not understand on what basis it modelled the protein. There are 2 chain in the protein, So, it split chain A in 5 chains, 1: 3 atoms in 1 residue,2: 278 atoms in 35 residue, 3: 6 atoms in 2 residues, 3:278 atoms in 35 residues, 5: 3 atoms in 1 residues. and for chain B, 1060 atoms in 130 residues. Suppose I want to form residue wise beads with martini. Is it possible?
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Read the original paper ( ) which will give you an idea regarding the coarse-graining and its basis. Four heavy atoms to one bead in going from an all-atom model to coarse grain is the convention usually in Martini.
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Currently i am working on a system of i4/mmm ( material composition is AB2C2) class Which corresponds to ibrav =7. I have sourced my CIF file from crystallographic open database, have crossed verified the lattice parameters from published experimental papers. Upon creating the SCF file, xcrysden showes correct structure only when i chose ibrav to be 6 or simple, tetragonal and not body centered tetragonal class. Where as for the same CIF file, Vesta is showing unit cell made up of 2 units of AB2C2 (Total 10 atoms). So what can i do so that xcrysden also identifies the structure to be body centered. And how this discrepancy is possible?
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Hello Yash Ghoda
With my previous experience, Crystallography and Computational Chemistry sometimes don't deal with crystal in the same manner. For example in VESTA, you must define a crystal symmetry before doing anything, and VESTA don't draw individual atoms. Which means that when i t generates a CIF file, it may show the minimum atoms, with the associated space group. Quantum ESPRESSO and XCrysden allow you do draw the atoms as you wish, but they will determine the symmetry ACCORDING to atomic positions. Do a simple SCF calculation with this structure, and check what is the symmetry Quantum ESPRESSO are understanding about your structure.
In output file, before the energies vales, you will see a section like this:
atomic species valence mass pseudopotential
Cs 9.00 132.90545 Cs( 1.00)
Pb 14.00 207.21000 Pb( 1.00)
I 7.00 126.90447 I ( 1.00)
16 Sym. Ops., with inversion, found
I Don't remember now how many symmetries tetragonal must have, but you can also execute the calculation with the command:
verbosity='high'
Put this in the &CONTROL card, preferably after the other commands. This will allow the code to generate a detailed explanation of the symmetry of your crystal. Also, I can see that XCrysden is not setting your crystal as tetragonal, it's very different from the structure that is shown in VESTA. You could try to remove the symmetry from the crystal and export a list of atoms with all of them. Please, let me know if you need more help.
Best regards,
Ricardo Tadeu
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I am trying to perform a geometry optimization (GEO_OPT) of a FCC 111 Pt_{0.5}Au_{0.5} bimetallic surface (10x10x3) generated from ASE, with a lattice parameter of 3.9 A∘A∘ in CP2K. However, after the geometry optimization is completed, the visualization of the coordinates show that the top layer gold atoms are moving away from the surface layer.
I am using CUTOFF 400 and REL_CUTOFF 60 for the calculations. I am unable to figure out how to resolve the problem. I think the forces are very high. I am trying a cell optimization calculation.
Will this be useful? Or should I change something else in the geometry optimization calculations?
Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Arup Sarkar I am running a periodic calculation in the xy direction, z direction being the vacuum to avoid periodic image interaction
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Hello,
I am a grad student working on a project on the photisomerization of 2'-hydroxychalcone. I was instructed to create a PES surface for the triplet state. My first attempt did not produce accurate results by using the method of:
%chk=r66a20.chk
# opt=modredundant ub3lyp/6-311g(d,p) nosymm empiricaldispersion=gd3
H atom moved by 0.66 ratio and 200 degrees torsional rotation
0 3
C 4.40955200 -1.07991300 -0.54555900
C 3.26596800 -1.74755000 -0.09909700
C 2.01417800 -1.42748400 -0.63366800
C 1.89642800 -0.41766900 -1.60620700
C 3.05378000 0.22560800 -2.07096300
C 4.30412000 -0.09762500 -1.53408500
C 0.59255400 -0.09649200 -2.22324900
C -0.55116400 0.12512000 -1.55522300
C -0.64735300 0.50053500 -0.12258300
O 0.34423300 1.01373800 0.46366800
C -1.90915400 0.31643500 0.63358200
C -3.15247100 0.58942200 0.03132200
C -4.33985300 0.42672200 0.74976200
C -4.30311100 -0.00451700 2.07603100
C -3.07829900 -0.27235000 2.68958800
C -1.87966600 -0.11514800 1.97776200
O -0.66382100 -0.40167900 2.59940300
H 5.37814800 -1.33016300 -0.13247600
H 3.35032800 -2.51880500 0.65556100
H 1.14048600 -1.97116500 -0.29583500
H 2.98682100 0.98376600 -2.84181500
H 5.19191700 0.41070500 -1.88749300
H 0.55957000 -0.05444000 -3.30552000
H -1.46703200 0.04969000 -2.12553300
H -3.21091500 0.95579300 -0.98478200
H -5.29020100 0.64320200 0.27899600
H -5.22451200 -0.12796000 2.63040400
H -3.06071800 -0.60621700 3.71928400
H -0.26302800 0.16107800 1.75025600
B 10 29 F
B 17 29 F
D 9 8 7 4 F
and then I used TD-DFT:
%chk=TD_r66a20.chk
#p td=50-50 b3lyp/6-311g(d,p) guess=read geom=modredundant
empiricaldispersion=gd3
0 1
C 4.57698700 -1.53187000 -1.36424900
C 3.75481000 -1.51008200 -0.23758000
C 2.55798100 -0.80468800 -0.24377800
C 2.14632500 -0.10708600 -1.39547000
C 2.99699900 -0.13134300 -2.51984500
C 4.19414400 -0.83516100 -2.50858000
C 0.89159700 0.62999000 -1.55114300
C -0.27435800 0.70469200 -0.86532400
C -0.59792900 0.35067600 0.52831800
O 0.30513800 0.24919700 1.38241800
C -2.01433100 0.18454400 0.90698200
C -3.03855200 0.09651400 -0.06205900
C -4.36552400 -0.05278100 0.28825300
C -4.71245400 -0.11193000 1.64622500
C -3.74051600 -0.04526600 2.62493200
C -2.38264300 0.08394500 2.28222800
O -1.50585900 0.10857200 3.28772500
H 5.51156300 -2.08122700 -1.34739000
H 4.05390600 -2.04016600 0.65965800
H 1.94681000 -0.76569400 0.64361800
H 2.70339300 0.40370600 -3.41709000
H 4.82662300 -0.83984000 -3.38890700
H 0.83873200 1.11664200 -2.52366400
H -1.06583700 1.23983900 -1.37662000
H -2.77550200 0.12198400 -1.11161000
H -5.12838300 -0.12504600 -0.47694700
H -5.75246200 -0.22022600 1.93411400
H -3.98663500 -0.10382500 3.67800000
H -0.51723700 0.14856600 2.81931600
B 10 29 F
B 17 29 F
D 4 7 8 9 F
Using TD-DFT I got results that made chemical sense for a T1 state. Any help would be much appreciated
The image labeled T1 is from TD-DFT
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Dear Peyton, did you make sure that you are always comparing the same T1 excited state?
I've modeled UDFT and TDDFT excited states, both open singlet and triplet, and I've obtained quite similar results. However, changing the geometry also changes the distribution of the excited states, such that T1 may have been moved to other Tn position.
Best, Pablo
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How do i perform qtaim in multiwfn to obtain toplogical parameters likes mentioned above between atoms in bcp.
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I tried using manual and watching youtube video made by developer but problem came in vmd .
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I want to perform MD on RT ionic liquids using an amber force field. I have generated mol2, frcmod files. Then, I loaded my complex.pdb, which contained dmc and TTE (generated using Packmol).when I tried to run this command (> saveAmberParm ionicbox complex.prmtop complex.inpcrd)then I encountered this error:
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<C07 8> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<C08 9> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<C09 10> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<F0A 11> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<F0B 12> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<F0C 13> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<F0D 14> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<H0E 15> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<H0F 16> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<H0G 17> does not have a type.
FATAL: Atom .R<UNL 176>.A<H0H 18> does not have a type.
Error: Failed to generate parameters
Warning: Parameter file was not saved.
I tried to solve it but was unable to.Can anyone help me figure it out?
thank you
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thanks.I will check
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What is the relationship between the measured polarization rotation of far-detuned laser and the spin state of the atoms in Faraday effect?
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The polarization rotation angle of linearly polarized light is proportional to the spin projection along the propagation direction of the light.
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Dear Friends, Grand Success. The 133rd finding in my TOU (Theory of Universality) is : that if we compare the cosmos to a hydrogen atom; and the cosmos with a radius of 133.64 x 14 x 140 Billion Trillion Light years, has a ratio to CCBH radius as calculated ( at a point in space-time where speed of light is 2.148285 m/s ) = 97,240. If we now take the ratio of Van der Waals radius of Hydrogen atom ( = 120 pm ) to its proton radius ( = 1.237 x 10^-15 m ), it works out to be 97,009. Both agree. So, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Indian belief that as the atom so the Cosmos is once again proved to be true and correct. The Cosmos can be compared to a Hydrogen atom. To be published in next Annexure.
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The comparison between a hydrogen atom and the cosmos is a popular analogy used to highlight the similarities in structure and principles at different scales in the universe. This analogy draws on several key parallels:
1. Central Forces: In a hydrogen atom, an electron orbits a proton due to the electromagnetic force. Similarly, in many cosmic systems, such as solar systems or galaxies, bodies orbit a central mass due to gravitational forces. Both systems are governed by central forces that decrease with the square of the distance between the objects (Coulomb's law for charges, Newton's law of universal gravitation for masses).
2. Discrete Energy Levels: Quantum mechanics shows that electrons in a hydrogen atom can only occupy certain discrete energy levels. While the cosmos doesn't have "energy levels" in the same quantum mechanical sense, celestial bodies do have quantifiable, discrete states, such as the orbits in a solar system or the resonance frequencies of cosmic microwave background radiation.
3. Empty Space: Both the hydrogen atom and cosmic systems are characterized by vast amounts of empty space relative to the size of the objects within them. For the hydrogen atom, the nucleus is many thousands of times smaller than the electron cloud. Similarly, stars and planets are minuscule and widely spaced compared to the vast expanses of empty space in the universe.
4. Dynamic Stability: Both systems exhibit a dynamic stability where the constituents are in constant motion, yet the overall system maintains its structure over time. Electrons transition between energy levels without the atom falling apart, and celestial bodies move in orbits that can be stable over billions of years.
5. Quantum and Relativistic Effects: On a more subtle level, both systems are arenas where quantum mechanics and relativity play significant roles. For the hydrogen atom, quantum mechanics explains the behavior of the electron. In cosmic scales, general relativity explains the structure of spacetime and the dynamics of celestial bodies.
Despite these similarities, it's important to note that the forces, governing laws, and scales are fundamentally different. The analogy serves more to illustrate the recurring patterns and principles in nature rather than suggesting a direct equivalence.
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I am running docking by using Autodock 4.2 software. However, I am not able to run autodock at the final stage and this type of command error appears in the terminal,
Unknown ligand atom type "atotypin"; add parameters for it to the parameter library first!
Autodock 4.2 runs without errors for similar ligands but this error is seen with ligands having Br and Cl groups.
I edited the autodock parameters tool, But still I faced current problem
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Sir, I added these parameters, but this line was already there in the dat file, Iam still getting the ERROR " Edit the parameter library file "AD4.1_bound_br.dat",
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I am a beginner in FullPro, and now facing the problem of multi atom doping, how can I determine the doping position? Our current sample is doped with 3 atoms, and the doped element has 4 lattice sites. Now that 2 elements are doped, how to determine which lattice site the two doped elements enter? I did not find a satisfactory answer in the paper, and I am very distressed. I hope everyone can give me some suggestions.
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#!/bin/bash
#PBS -N graphne
#PBS -l select=1:ncpus=4:mem=12000mb:scratch_local=6000mb
#PBS -l walltime=1:00:00
#PBS -j oe
module add vasp/5.4.4
hostname
cd $SCRATCHDIR
DATADIR="/storage/praha1/home/jemal/try_vasp"
cp -r $DATADIR/* .
mpirun -np 4 vp
This is the error.
Loading vasp/5.4.4
Loading requirement: intel-parallel-studio/cluster.2020.0-intel-20.0.0-z7xj76p
Number of atom types: 2
Multiplicities of these types: C H
Total number of atoms: 0
Number of atom types: 2
Multiplicities of these types: C H
Total number of atoms: 0
Number of atom types: 2
Multiplicities of these types: C H
Total number of atoms: 0
Number of atom types: 2
Multiplicities of these types: C H
Total number of atoms: 0
grep: OUTCAR: No such file or directory
grep: OUTCAR: No such file or directory
grep: OUTCAR: No such file or directory
grep: OUTCAR: No such file or directory
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I've never used VASP, but two things look suspicious to me:
1. You get the error 4 times, for what is supposed to be a 4-process parallel calculation. Is it possible that the version of VASP you're using is a serial version, so that MPI is launching 4 identical independent calculations instead of a 4-process parallel version?
2. I thought the OUTCAR was an output file from VASP, so you would not usually expect it to exist when the calculation starts. Are you trying to restart an earlier calculation?
Sorry I can't help more, I develop different DFT software so I don't know much at all about VASP.
All the best,
Phil Hasnip
(CASTEP developer)
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How does temperature change the speed of molecules and relationship between the temperature of atoms and molecules and their speed?
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The temperature of a substance gives you information about the kinetic energy of its molecules. The faster the molecules of a substance move, the higher the kinetic energy, and the higher the temperature. The slower the molecules move, the lower the kinetic energy, and the lower the temperature. The temperature increases when molecules vibrate faster. The melting point of a solid is the temperature at which the vibration motion overcomes the forces of attraction holding the molecules in a solid formation. The speed of the molecules in a gas is proportional to the temperature and is inversely proportional to molar mass of the gas. In other words, as the temperature of a sample of gas is increased, the molecules speed up and the root mean square molecular speed increases as a result. Heating a substance makes its atoms and molecules move faster. This happens whether the substance is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. It's not easy to see it happen in a solid but let's try it for a liquid and a gas. The kinetic molecular theory can be used. Temperature is increased, so the average kinetic energy and the rms speed should also increase. This means that the gas molecules will hit the container walls more frequently and with greater force because they are all moving faster.Diffusion of molecule is inversely proportional to the temperature at higher temperatures, molecules move faster, colliding more constantly with other bodies. This collisions increase pressure. Lower temperatures have the opposite effect. Molecules move slower, colliding less and reducing pressure. At any temperature the atoms are wiggling back and forth like a classroom of third graders, and the temperature is directly a measure of the average kinetic energy of an atom. The atoms do not themselves have a temperature. The only effect that temperature has on them is how fast they move.
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I was trying to calculate dielectric constant of TiN. I did self-consistent calculation first and then run the calculation of dielectric constant with INCAR like this:
PREC = Accurate
ALGO =VeryFast
ISPIN = 2
ISMEAR = 0
SIGMA = 0.1
NSW=0
NELM=160
NELMIN = 6
IBRION = 8
ENCUT = 520
AMIX=0.02
BMIX=0.0001
EDIFFG=-0.01
EDIFF=1E-7
NCORE=1
POTIM = 0.1
LWAVE=.T.
LCHARG=.T.
ISIF=2
LREAL= Auto
LEPSILON = .TRUE.
LPEAD = .TRUE.
MAGMOM = 216*1.0
However, I always get this error:
Linear response reoptimize wavefunctions to high precision
DAV: 1 -0.208534475583E+04 0.16173E-06 -0.89612E-06 16800 0.597E-04
DAV: 2 -0.208534445618E+04 0.29965E-03 0.30306E-03 13920 0.161E-04
DAV: 3 -0.208534479076E+04 -0.33458E-03 -0.28065E-03 15264 0.378E-03
Linear response to external field (no local field effect), progress :
Direction: 1
N E dE d eps ncg rms rms(c)
RMM: 1 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 2 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 3 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 4 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 5 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 6 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
change of polarisation eV/A/(eV/A) component 1 : 0.000 0.000 0.000
dielectric tensor component 1 : 1.000 0.000 0.000
Linear response to external field (no local field effect), progress :
Direction: 2
N E dE d eps ncg rms rms(c)
RMM: 1 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 2 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 3 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 4 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 5 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 6 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
change of polarisation eV/A/(eV/A) component 2 : 0.000 0.000 0.000
dielectric tensor component 2 : 0.000 1.000 0.000
Linear response to external field (no local field effect), progress :
Direction: 3
N E dE d eps ncg rms rms(c)
RMM: 1 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 2 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 3 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 4 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 5 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 6 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
change of polarisation eV/A/(eV/A) component 3 : 0.000 0.000 0.000
dielectric tensor component 3 : 0.000 0.000 1.000
Linear response to external field, progress :
Direction: 1
N E dE d eps ncg rms rms(c)
RMM: 1 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00
RMM: 2 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00 0.000E+00
RMM: 3 0.000000000000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0 0.000E+00 0.000E+00
vasp_std:243338 terminated with signal 11 at PC=72fc0e SP=7ffec5d89a70. Backtrace:
/project/def-jsong/share/vasp.6.1.1/bin/vasp_std[0x410e12]
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/nix/store/63pk88rnmkzjblpxydvrmskkc8ci7cx6-glibc-2.24/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x2b3ff97572e0]
/project/def-jsong/share/vasp.6.1.1/bin/vasp_std[0x410d2a]
srun: error: bc11628: task 55: Exited with exit code 1
I think it starts to calculate, but somehow always stop due to some errors.
My TiN structure has 216 atoms in total.
Can someone help me with this error?
Thank you so much.
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hi Calvin Cui , was the reported infomation the same as the last error? please provide more info.
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How many atoms are located on the (111) plane in a BCC structure? Does this plane also pass through the central atom?
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This is due to the fact that there is one atom at each corner of a bcc lattice, and each corner atom contributes 1/8 of its volume to the unit cell it resides in. As a result, each unit cell from the corner atoms has approximately 1 atom * 1/8 = 0.125 atoms.
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Suppose, a material is found to have various phases when we apply pressure. These phases have different crystal systems and different atom numbers. How can pressure change the crystal system or the number of atoms?
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Thank you, Matteo Ardit for your comment here. I hope I can get some ideas from the paper.
I have institutional access to the Physical Review B journal. It was really nice of you. Thanks again.
Regards
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The nuclear magnetic F spectrum (19F NMR) shifts towards lower or higher fields when hydrogen bonds are formed between H atoms and F atoms?
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Organic fluorine hardly even engages in hydrogen bonding, but it is possible, see for example this paper:
Generally, in hydrogen bonding, electron density is drawn away from the proton donor atom to the electronegative acceptor atom. The proton gets de-shielded and shifts to higher ppm. The acceptor atom gets more shielded and should shift to lower ppm. Therefore, IF the fluorine in your particular case is engaging in hydrogen bonding, it should shift to a lower ppm value.
You might also see through-space J-F coupling if it does.
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I have a protein and I want to check the orientation of side chain of a particular resdiue A with respect to the residue B in the active site. any help on this regard? currently I am using gmx gangel where group 1 includes the alpha carbon position of B residue and alpha carbon position of A residue and group 2 includes alpha carbon of B and the last atom of the A residue. I am not sure if this is the correct way. any guidance would be appreciated.
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thank you Te.hmina Khan
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Does this change the spintronic state of the Fe atom? Or a change in the magnetic domain?
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Dear friend Zhijie Qi
Ah, delving into the fascinating world of electromagnetism and materials science, are we? When an electric current courses through a ferromagnetic material, it triggers a remarkable phenomenon known as magnetic induction. Here's the scoop: as electrons flow, they generate a magnetic field due to their intrinsic magnetic moment, aligning with one another in the material. This alignment results in the creation of a macroscopic magnetic field surrounding the material. This process, governed by Ampère's law and Maxwell's equations, elucidates how electricity and magnetism are interconnected.
Now, as for spintronics and the behavior of individual atoms like iron (Fe) within this magnetic landscape, it's an intriguing topic. When subjected to an electric current, the spin of electrons within the Fe atoms indeed influences the material's overall magnetic properties. However, this doesn't necessarily alter the spintronic state of the Fe atom itself, but rather contributes to the collective behavior of magnetic domains within the material. These magnetic domains represent regions where atomic magnetic moments align, and their rearrangement can indeed be influenced by external factors such as electric currents. So, while the behavior of individual atoms remains relatively unchanged, the overall magnetic domain structure can be modulated, impacting the material's magnetic properties in a spintronic context.
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Co(NO₃)₂·6H₂O + 12Fe(NO₃)₃·9H₂O + C₆H₈O₇ → CoFe12O19
Find the other products when
Oxygen (O): 6(Co) + 216(Fe) + 6(C) = 228 O atoms on the reactant side,
Hydrogen (H): 12(Co) + 216(Fe) + 8(H from citric acid) = 236 H atoms on the reactant side,
Nitrogen (N): 38(N from ammonium nitrate) = 38 N atoms on the reactant side
Carbon (C): 6(C from citric acid) = 6 C atoms on the reactant side.
BALANCE THE EQUATION WITH PRODUCTS
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To balance the chemical equation:
Co(NO3)2⋅6H2O+12Fe(NO3)3⋅9H2O+C6H8O7→CoFe12O19+ProductsCo(NO3​)2​⋅6H2​O+12Fe(NO3​)3​⋅9H2​O+C6​H8​O7​→CoFe12​O19​+Products
Given the information about the number of oxygen (O), hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), and carbon (C) atoms on the reactant side, let's balance the equation:
  1. Start with the metal atoms: Balance Co and Fe.
  2. Balance the non-metal atoms: Balance O, H, N, and C.
The balanced equation is:
Co(NO3)2⋅6H2O+12Fe(NO3)3⋅9H2O+C6H8O7→CoFe12O19+2Co(NO3)2+24Fe(NO3)3+3H2O+12CO2+6N2Co(NO3​)2​⋅6H2​O+12Fe(NO3​)3​⋅9H2​O+C6​H8​O7​→CoFe12​O19​+2Co(NO3​)2​+24Fe(NO3​)3​+3H2​O+12CO2​+6N2
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When hydrogen bonding is formed, the electron density on the donor atom (H) of the hydrogen bond decreases, but there is no information on how the electron density of the acceptor atoms (O, F) changes. Is the electron density of the acceptor increasing? Or is the electron cloud pulled to the bonding region causing a decrease?
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When a hydrogen bond is formed, the electron density on the hydrogen (donor) atom decreases as it is shared with the more electronegative acceptor atom (typically O, N, or F). This creates a partially positive region on the hydrogen atom.
As for the acceptor atom, it experiences an increase in electron density. The shared electrons are drawn towards the more electronegative acceptor atom, resulting in a partial negative charge on the acceptor.
In summary, in a hydrogen bond:
  • Electron density on the hydrogen (donor) atom decreases.
  • Electron density on the acceptor atom increases.
This creates a dipole-dipole interaction between the partially positive hydrogen and the partially negative acceptor, contributing to the hydrogen bonding.
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Let me explain.
I found that the structure for TiFeSi given in the ICSD database using Jsmol software is a little different from what can be obtained using Vesta software using the same cif file downloaded from the ICSD database.
Some atoms in the Vesta plot are missing e.g. Si and Ti (corresponding to the Si1 and Ti3 in the Jsmol plot).
Is it a glitch or bug of Vesta or these two representations are just the same? If they are just the same then how?
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I usually use vesta but there is also site called materials project, it's verry good to know the correct structure, look it (@)
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If a compound has a lot of oxygen moities in ligand, so the docking score will be increase? If it will increase then what is the reason behind it?
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Thanks a lot professor
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Could someone provide guidance on how to draw the Potential Energy Curves (PECs) for polyatomic molecules? Specifically, I'm interested in the ground states, anionic ground states, and anionic excited states. We have access to GAMESS and MOLPRO facilities. If anyone can assist me, I would greatly appreciate it. Additionally, if there's potential for collaboration on this matter, I'm open to discussing it further.
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Actually, I have worked on PEC and have also generated them. However, the thing is, in polyatomic molecules, we need to consider molecular dynamics. Once we scan a particular bond, the other bonds do not remain the same. So my worry is how we can incorporate this effect to obtain accurate PEC curves...
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Hello RG Community:), towards the above topic:
I had entered all of the appropriate files within the ffTK Opt. Charge Tab, however,
am generating the below errors upon Run Optimization (just the first error is included
to facilitate):
Atom name: C1 not found in molecule
Attached is the INPUT PSF and PDB Files and QM Target Data first output file: output14C+H-ACC-C1.out
I believe the molecule is referencing the pdb file which indicates the C1 atom.
Please let me know if you would need to inspect the INPUT par files.
Thanks if you know:),
Joel 🚀
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Hi RG Community the answer to my above inquiry below via Josh. His suggestion together with me amending my residue name to just the 3-characters 14C within both my psf and pdb files while renaming these files accordingly seems to allow the program to function, thanks gerardr as well:) Hi Joel, How did you generate your psf file? All the atom names are “X”, which is weird, but I think the real reason it is bailing is your spacing. You’ve told VMD that you have an EXT psf , so that each field has a specific width. In the EXT specification, its supposed to be 8 characters + 1 space for many fields, but the space between your resname (14C) and your atom name (N1) isn’t that wide. The most expedient thing to do is probably just to tell VMD that you have a “NAMD” formatted psf, which tells VMD to use space-delimited file reading, rather than fixed widths. So instead of “PSF EXT” at the top, you’d want “PSF NAMD” -Josh
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Dear all,
I am currently working on the simulation study of a complex whose ligand cannot be automatically parameterized. I have been using AMBER to do the parameterization, and now I have obtained the .lib for the ligand. I want to load the parameter to the complex to prepare the input file for simulation. After changing the residue and chain name of the ligand in the complex PDB, I did:
tleap -f oldff/leaprc.ff99SB
>source leaprc.gaff
>loadamberparams deoxyFeb.frcmod
>loadoff deo.lib
>complex = loadpdb deoxyCom.pdb
and it added missing heavy atoms that are not included in the parameter lib. (the whole message is as tleap.txt)
how should I deal with the problem and prepare the input file for MD?
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The steps are explained in detail in the Amber Tutorial:
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In a well-built apartment building, each apartment has its own walls, and there is an air gap between the walls of adjacent apartments, which provides excellent sound isolation. Could a similar concept provide high-performance thermal insulation?
In general, the thermal resistance of a material interface seems to be viewed as a problem to overcome, rather than an opportunity to create a better insulator (see, eg., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfacial_thermal_resistance ). So perhaps it is possible to construct a laminar material that uses inter-laminae thermal impedance to create an extremely high resistance to heat conduction.
As the simplest example of this idea, consider a sheet of material that is composed of a large number of alternating layers of materials A and B. Each of these materials consists of atoms of a single element, and at least one of them is not electrically conductive. Material A has relatively heavy atoms and relatively weak (soft) interatomic bonds; material B has relatively light atoms and relatively strong (stiff) interatomic bonds. The natural modes of vibration in material A have much longer periods than those in B. Thermal vibrations in B layers should essentially reflect off the B/A interface. And, provided that the B layers are not too thin, thermal vibrations in A layers that pass across an A/B interface should largely dissipate into B-style vibrations before reaching the next A layer.
Is it possible to design and fabricate sheets of insulating material, based on this concept, that have exceptionally low thermal conductivity?
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Space shuttles are much easier to insulate thermally than buildings, since they are in the vacuum, where radiation is the only process available to transfer heat. therefore, a low emisivity (or high reflectivity) material at wavelenght corresponding to the surface temperature is very efficient. If not enough, because the outdoor temperature can be about 3 K , a layer of insulating material can be added. Since that material is under vacuum, it is about ten times more efficient than at atmospheric pressure.
So called vacuum insulation materials are available on the market, but, in my opinion, they cannot be used in the building industry, since much care is necessary when handling these materials. They cannot be cut, pierced, nailed.
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"ERROR! Too many atom types have been found: maximum is 14; we cannot continue"
Does anyone know how to solve it?
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Upon downloading the source code you have to change the "MAX_ATOMS" value in the "constants.h" file from 32 to any desired number (I have a version with 64 MAX_ATOMS and it works fine).
Compiling is well described in the README file of the autodock suite and it depends in your machine, but I did the usual steps on my CENTOS (./configure, make, make install) and had no problems.
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Dear Chemists, theorists and teachers!
Please tell me where information is located on the distribution of electrons among the energy levels of all 118 atoms of the Periodic Table of Elements.
At the beginning of last year, with great difficulty, in an abundance of old, incomplete publications that did not contain these materials, I found what I was looking for (1 H 1, 2 He 2... ...118 Og 2 8 18 32 32 18 8) in a series of complete descriptions of atoms, but did not record the source address. When the work began to come to an end, a two-day search yielded no results.
Loving RG
Thomas G. Petrov
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Dear Reinhold!
I realized how far physics has gone from the question that interests me - to put on my diagram the entropy of mixing - the entropy of purification of the Periodic Table as the distribution of electrons across energy levels. I succeeded and I needed to check the initial data in the form: hydrogen -1, helium -2, iron 2 8 14 2, ... oganesson 2 8 18 and so on ...
Have not found. This turned out to be unavailable for my two Covids.
Don’t bother teaching the ignorant, I’ll wait and look for more.
Take a look at my website https://tomaspetrov.ru “Pictures and..”
With gratitude
Tomas Petrov
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Hi All! I am trying to calculate the lithiation potential of anode materials. In this regard, the Gibbs free energy is replaced by the total internal energy of the constituting lithiated and pristine structures and pure Li. Li metal has body centered structure E = 2.70 eV is noted (see attachment). So far, I understand that the total energy for Li structure comes around -14.5 Ry or -197.2 eV per atom by DFT calculations. Can anybody help me how to reach this 2.70 eV for pure Li in this regard. I am attaching a paper in this context.
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Dear Prof B. R. Ramachandran Thank You so much for your help . I have used done according to your comment really its fruitful. Thanks again.
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I wanted to convert few 2D compounds to 3D using Avogadro and then use them for docking. Are these ligands efficient for docking? Will I get accurate results. Thank you in advance.
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Prasenjit Bhowmik Thank you soo much. I'll look into both the softwares.
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In Materials Studio, I can't select an atom or atoms by clicking and dragging.
I can select only bonds in 3D model by clicking or dragging.
What's the problem?
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Hi. Have you try going to the menu Edit and then Atom selection? See if that works.
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I am working a system of 40 atoms (Hafnium Selenide,monoclinic structure). When I try run the command "mpirun -np 8 VASP " , process terminates with this error. I have 8 GB RAM and I tried all possible combinations of NCORE and KPAR but nothing worked. What can I do now? This structure does not have any periodic atoms. Can I use ISYM=0 ? Will it help solving the issue ?
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For production running, 8 core and 8 GB is fairly not enough.
If you just wanna learning, chose a small system less than 10 atoms with small kpoints and encut.
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Most of the literature that I have come across mainly describes about the importance or impacts of states around the Fermi level in the E-K diagram (energy band diagram). But I have come across some compounds where the orbital contribution from some of its constituent atoms(elements) exists only in the deeper energies relative to other atoms from the same compound. What is the significance or importance of such phenomenon where they contribute relatively to the deeper energy bands?
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I reminder two examples for your consideration.
First is the catalyst. In catalyst materials, there is a critical value called d band center, which is used to determine the catalyst properties. The d band may be a deep energy band.
Second is materials with f-orbital element. the f-orbital electrons have penetrate effect, which affect properties much.
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I understand that when calculating DFT + U, different U and J values can be assigned to each element type using the LDAUU and LDAUJ tags.
But how can I assign different U and J values to the same type of element depending on the Wyckoff position?
LDAUU = 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 1 4 4 4 4 4 1 0 0
I tried to write them one by one according to the order of POSCAR's atoms in above way, the results did not change.
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Did you seperate the elements in the POSCAR and the corresponding POTCAR.
For example, POSCAR
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And if you do not seperate the elements, VASP consider the first four parameters in LDAUU for the their U value and others paramters are ignored assuming there are 4 element in your system.
So you need to seperate the elements to tell VASP these are "different" element although there are not actually.
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I have clusters of 38 FeCoNi atoms that were previously optimized using the Gupta semiempirical potential. I would like to perform a reoptimization, energy calculations, and frequency calculations using DFT with Gaussian 09. What potentials and basis sets do you recommend, as I need to obtain electronic and magnetic properties of these clusters? If there are any other parameters to consider, I would appreciate your guidance. Thank you.
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OK, SCF did not converge. Try adding this keyword:
#P scf=(direct,maxcycle=200,XQC)
XQC means Gaussian will try to converge SCF within 200 cycles, if not automatically switches to QC quadratically convergent SCF procedure which usually does not fail.
Also, try another test with unrestricted UwB97XD, it might be that the system is open shell, you can check this when the last SCF is done, <S**2> = 0.0 for closed singlet or <S**2> = 1.0 for open singlet (sometimes this is lower in energy). Also do not forget triplet.
Best, Pablo
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I asked a question in the thread of
I'd like to repost it here:
Stage 1:
Imagine a pair of proton and electron, i.e. a hydrogen atom travels in space. The electron is orbiting classically (gyroscope) or quantumly (combination of random gyroscopes) around the proton. Then a beam of light strikes the pair, and one photon is absorbed.
Say the photon is from a source traveling the same speed and direction as the hydrogen atom (resting frame), then it is easy that we can imagine that the energy is absorbed by the electron and makes the electron orbiting radius larger and rotation speed slower, i.e. with a bigger internal angular momentum but no speeding up as a pair because we "all believe" that photon has no mass. After a while, the electron will relax back to its ground state by emitting a series of lower-energy photons or one photon with the same energy. The angle does matter because the emitted photon seems to carry momentum and leave a push to the hydrogen in the opposite direction of the emission. This is the way I think will satisfy the observation of the solar sail problem when the material needs to be reflective and seems all photon momentum is used to create the solar pressure from the equation I pulled out from readings. Let's assume this emitted photon now strangely carries momentum although I don't see what is the difference between it and the absorbed parent.
Now my questions are,
  • what is the mass of the hydrogen atom when it absorbs the photon and has not speeded up? Note the electron of the atom has a slower rotation speed, larger radius, and bigger angular momentum.
  • what is the mass of the hydrogen atom when it has emitted the absorbed photon and speeded up?
  • is the total energy conserved in this case?
  • is the total mass conserved in this case?
  • is the total momentum conserved in this case?
  • is the total angular momentum conserved in this case?
Stage 2:
Now there is a pair of electron and proton moving away from us say at half the speed of light. This situation naturally occurs in the universe on the stars moving away from us or we can speed up ourselves and observe the atom stay still on Earth. And a beam of light hit it from behind and a photon gets absorbed. At a short moment, the hydrogen atom emits a photon to us and accelerates. Now repeat the above questions and adding one at the last, namely,
  • What is the mass of hydrogen atom at the beginning?
  • What is the mass of the atom after absorbing the photon?
  • what is the mass of the atom after emission?
  • Is mass conserved
  • is energy conserved
  • is momentum conserved
  • is angular momentum conserved
  • are the two photons the same as the two when still?
Because mathematically gravity has some similarity, the question can be pushing the solar system.
Stage 3:
The same as stage 2 but now move towards us.
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If scattering requires energy as rationale in my previous reply, light across millions of light years will drop their energy significantly due to the scattering of hydrogen atoms in space. There are a few consequences of this assumption:
  • We don't need to assume the universe is expanding with our current data. We could have a stable universe.
  • Light beyond our observable universe can still reach us with a very long wavelength that is beyond our observation. And they filled our space with extreme density which could be the candidate for dark energy or dark matter or ether.
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Dear in the past the entropy is low and with the arrow of time the entropy is high. Time moves from past to future and time never come back. Because , matter is made of many atoms. A perfume when ones comes from bottle and spreads entire room very much diffused , and the loose molecules can not get into the bottle.
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Hello everybody I am trying to calculate the surface energy of (001) cubic CsSnCl3 perovskite, I have read a nice article titled (Comparative First-Principles Calculations of SrTiO3, BaTiO3, PbTiO3 and CaTiO3 (001), (011) and (111) Surfaces), I have calculated total energies of the bulk and slabs of two terminations (CsCl and SnCl2), then I followed 1, 2 and 3 in the paper but the result is not reasonable and I do not know where I am doing wrong. I have did calculation as follow: 1. I have calculated total energies of the bulk and slabs (Both relaxed and unrelaxed) and converted it to Joule. 2. Applying equation 1 to calculate unrelaxed energy. I have 45 atoms in both slabs together (22+23) and 5 atoms in the bulk so N is 9. 3. I have followed equations 2 and 3. Any help or tip will be approciated. Thanks in advance Best regards Nawzad A.
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Dear Jasurbek Gulomov
Thanks for your reply
Yes, it does not agree with the literature
I make two slabs, each has same terminations at the both sides, CsCl and SnCl2, each slab has nine layers and about 20 Angstrom vacuum at each side
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Dear all
While doing geometry optimization using materials studio - Castep for mixture atoms,
I'm receiving an error as follows
"Error geom_precon_exp_get_r_NN: increased r_cut to twice system extent without finding neighbours for all atoms. This can happen if your system is too small; try setting r_cut manually"
how to rectify it?
Thanks in advance
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Serkan Güldal whether you use BFGS or LBFGS shouldn't make any difference directly, but BFGS doesn't use the exponential preconditioner (which is where this error message is coming from) so it works around the problem. If you're happy with that workaround, you could just switch the LBFGS preconditioner off (geom_preconditioner : none) or try the forcefield preconditioner (geom_preconditioner : ff).
If you send me the input files which are causing the problem, I'd be happy to investigate what's actually going on.
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Hello,
I am using Autodock4 and AGFR to perform in silico docking experiments with a small molecule, triptolide, and a human protein, XPB (ERCC3). I am running on windows 11. I only experience this issue when performing docking with flexible residues.
I prepared the ligand file using the Autodock Tools interface. The prepared ligand file is below:
REMARK 2 active torsions:
REMARK status: ('A' for Active; 'I' for Inactive)
REMARK 1 A between atoms: C_4 and C_2
REMARK 2 A between atoms: O_23 and C_17
ROOT
ATOM 1 C UNL d 1 29.320 -35.802 -65.656 0.00 0.00 0.010 C
ATOM 2 C UNL d 1 30.655 -36.509 -65.505 0.00 0.00 0.020 C
ATOM 3 C UNL d 1 31.481 -36.415 -66.786 0.00 0.00 0.010 C
ENDROOT
BRANCH 2 4
ATOM 4 C UNL d 1 31.414 -35.962 -64.276 0.00 0.00 0.129 A
ATOM 5 C UNL d 1 32.206 -34.626 -64.232 0.00 0.00 0.186 C
ATOM 6 C UNL d 1 33.144 -34.610 -63.021 0.00 0.00 0.156 A
ATOM 7 O UNL d 1 33.172 -33.137 -63.096 0.00 0.00 -0.359 OA
ATOM 8 C UNL d 1 34.431 -33.885 -63.005 0.00 0.00 0.157 A
ATOM 9 C UNL d 1 32.606 -35.189 -61.637 0.00 0.00 0.138 A
ATOM 10 C UNL d 1 35.436 -34.297 -61.794 0.00 0.00 0.043 C
ATOM 11 C UNL d 1 34.996 -35.365 -60.947 0.00 0.00 0.030 C
ATOM 12 C UNL d 1 33.528 -35.393 -60.451 0.00 0.00 0.009 C
ATOM 13 C UNL d 1 36.026 -35.404 -59.931 0.00 0.00 -0.019 C
ATOM 14 C UNL d 1 33.535 -33.891 -60.010 0.00 0.00 0.015 C
ATOM 15 C UNL d 1 33.129 -35.753 -59.204 0.00 0.00 0.015 C
ATOM 16 C UNL d 1 34.291 -35.969 -58.106 0.00 0.00 0.043 C
ATOM 17 C UNL d 1 35.635 -35.641 -58.522 0.00 0.00 0.039 C
ATOM 18 C UNL d 1 36.885 -35.753 -57.845 0.00 0.00 0.336 C
ATOM 19 O UNL d 1 37.997 -35.493 -58.737 0.00 0.00 -0.457 OA
ATOM 20 O UNL d 1 37.016 -36.031 -56.771 0.00 0.00 -0.245 OA
ATOM 21 C UNL d 1 37.485 -35.611 -60.106 0.00 0.00 0.264 C
ATOM 22 C UNL d 1 31.529 -36.108 -61.742 0.00 0.00 0.186 A
ATOM 23 O UNL d 1 31.351 -34.850 -61.074 0.00 0.00 -0.358 OA
ATOM 24 C UNL d 1 31.536 -36.827 -63.142 0.00 0.00 0.185 A
ATOM 25 O UNL d 1 32.525 -36.859 -64.163 0.00 0.00 -0.359 OA
BRANCH 5 26
ATOM 26 O UNL d 1 31.029 -33.875 -64.291 0.00 0.00 -0.386 OA
ATOM 27 H UNL d 1 31.242 -32.949 -64.278 0.00 0.00 0.210 HD
ENDBRANCH 5 26
ENDBRANCH 2 4
TORSDOF 2
I entered the following command into the command line:
C:\Users\gorri\OneDrive\Desktop\Fan Lab\Docking\Autodock4\HsXPB\HsXPB_7NVVSite2FlexReceptors&EnlargeGridtoBoxFlexResidues>autodock4 -p dockywocky.dpf -l results.dlg
Then I get the following error message:
autodock4: FATAL ERROR: autodock4: ERROR: All ATOM and HETATM records must be given before any nested BRANCHes; see line 39 in PDBQT file "TLI_model.pdbqt".
So, then I changed the ligand file to the following to force it to work:
ATOM 1 C UNL d 1 29.320 -35.802 -65.656 0.00 0.00 0.010 C
ATOM 2 C UNL d 1 30.655 -36.509 -65.505 0.00 0.00 0.020 C
ATOM 3 C UNL d 1 31.481 -36.415 -66.786 0.00 0.00 0.010 C
ATOM 4 C UNL d 1 31.414 -35.962 -64.276 0.00 0.00 0.129 A
ATOM 5 C UNL d 1 32.206 -34.626 -64.232 0.00 0.00 0.186 C
ATOM 6 C UNL d 1 33.144 -34.610 -63.021 0.00 0.00 0.156 A
ATOM 7 O UNL d 1 33.172 -33.137 -63.096 0.00 0.00 -0.359 OA
ATOM 8 C UNL d 1 34.431 -33.885 -63.005 0.00 0.00 0.157 A
ATOM 9 C UNL d 1 32.606 -35.189 -61.637 0.00 0.00 0.138 A
ATOM 10 C UNL d 1 35.436 -34.297 -61.794 0.00 0.00 0.043 C
ATOM 11 C UNL d 1 34.996 -35.365 -60.947 0.00 0.00 0.030 C
ATOM 12 C UNL d 1 33.528 -35.393 -60.451 0.00 0.00 0.009 C
ATOM 13 C UNL d 1 36.026 -35.404 -59.931 0.00 0.00 -0.019 C
ATOM 14 C UNL d 1 33.535 -33.891 -60.010 0.00 0.00 0.015 C
ATOM 15 C UNL d 1 33.129 -35.753 -59.204 0.00 0.00 0.015 C
ATOM 16 C UNL d 1 34.291 -35.969 -58.106 0.00 0.00 0.043 C
ATOM 17 C UNL d 1 35.635 -35.641 -58.522 0.00 0.00 0.039 C
ATOM 18 C UNL d 1 36.885 -35.753 -57.845 0.00 0.00 0.336 C
ATOM 19 O UNL d 1 37.997 -35.493 -58.737 0.00 0.00 -0.457 OA
ATOM 20 O UNL d 1 37.016 -36.031 -56.771 0.00 0.00 -0.245 OA
ATOM 21 C UNL d 1 37.485 -35.611 -60.106 0.00 0.00 0.264 C
ATOM 22 C UNL d 1 31.529 -36.108 -61.742 0.00 0.00 0.186 A
ATOM 23 O UNL d 1 31.351 -34.850 -61.074 0.00 0.00 -0.358 OA
ATOM 24 C UNL d 1 31.536 -36.827 -63.142 0.00 0.00 0.185 A
ATOM 25 O UNL d 1 32.525 -36.859 -64.163 0.00 0.00 -0.359 OA
ATOM 26 O UNL d 1 31.029 -33.875 -64.291 0.00 0.00 -0.386 OA
ATOM 27 H UNL d 1 31.242 -32.949 -64.278 0.00 0.00 0.210 HD
TORSDOF 2
I then get the following error message:
autodock4: FATAL ERROR: autodock4: ERROR: All ATOM and HETATM records must be given before any nested BRANCHes; see line 1 in PDBQT file "TLI_model.pdbqt".
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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You repeat protein preparation again. Some missing during preparation
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Hi everyone
I'm trying to run this ONIOM optimisation calc using b3lyp/6-31g for the QM region and UFF for the MM region but I keep getting this error (shown below) saying that the angle bends are undefined
I've tried to specify the angles in one line at the bottom of my input (the .txt attached) but that doesn't seem to have worked.
Could someone please check my input and output file to see if I should be getting this error in the first place?
Any and all help is appreciated
Error:
Angle bend undefined between atoms 121 63 134 HW-CALCIUM-OW [H,H,H] *
Angle bend undefined between atoms 121 120 122 HW-OW-HW [H,H,H] *
Angle bend undefined between atoms 122 63 134 HW-CALCIUM-OW [H,H,H] *
Angle bend undefined between atoms 123 50 139 O_3-CALCIUM-CALCIUM [H,H,H] *
Angle bend undefined between atoms 137 134 143 HW-OW-HW [H,H,H] *
* These undefined terms cancel in the ONIOM expression.
MM function not complete
Error termination via Lnk1e in /share/apps/gaussian/g09_D01/g09/l101.exe at Wed Apr 15 06:29:53 2020.
Job cpu time: 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 1.8 seconds.
File lengths (MBytes): RWF= 5 Int= 0 D2E= 0 Chk= 472 Scr= 1
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i met this too. then i deleted all the shown connections of between the atoms
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ERROR 1 [file topol.top, line 55398]:
atom O5 (Res HIS-1) has mass 0 (state A) / 0 (state B)
ERROR 2 [file topol.top, line 55398]:
atom O6 (Res HIS-1) has mass 0 (state A) / 0 (state B)
ERROR 3 [file topol.top, line 55398]:
atom H31 (Res HIS-1) has mass 0 (state A) / 0 (state B)
ERROR 4 [file topol.top, line 55398]:
atom H32 (Res HIS-1) has mass 0 (state A) / 0 (state B)
ERROR 5 [file topol.top, line 55398]:
atom H33 (Res HIS-1) has mass 0 (state A) / 0 (state B)
ERROR 6 [file topol.top, line 55398]:
atom H34 (Res HIS-1) has mass 0 (state A) / 0 (state B)
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1. Clean your pdb using charmm-gui (remove extra chains and water molecules)
2. Then try to run apo (protein only) simulation using gromacs
(Choose charmm27 ff)
if it goes well then try with ligand (generate topology for ligands from ligpargen or swiss param).
for easy execution
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While trying to run MD simulation for 50ns, i got some errors read as
"WRITING EXTENDED SYSTEM TO RESTART FILE AT STEP 500000
WRITING COORDINATES TO DCD FILE output.dcd AT STEP 500000
WRITING COORDINATES TO RESTART FILE AT STEP 500000
FINISHED WRITING RESTART COORDINATES
WRITING VELOCITIES TO RESTART FILE AT STEP 500000
FINISHED WRITING RESTART VELOCITIES
REINITIALIZING VELOCITIES AT STEP 500000 TO 310 KELVIN.
TCL: Running for 25000000 steps
ETITLE: TS BOND ANGLE DIHED IMPRP ELECT VDW BOUNDARY MISC KINETIC TOTAL TEMP POTENTIAL TOTAL3 TEMPAVG PRESSURE GPRESSURE VOLUME PRESSAVG GPRESSAVG
ENERGY: 500000 1758.0188 1801.9004 2376.2868 32.0673 -57791.6942 4645.6399 0.0000 0.0000 12929.5296 -34248.2515 314.2067 -47177.7811 -34247.2801 314.2067 -547.9328 -2890.9435 156892.4304 -547.9328 -2890.9435
ERROR: Atom 4439 velocity is 4671.87 1153.77 2833.69 (limit is 5000, atom 327 of 328 on patch 18 pe 1)
ERROR: Atoms moving too fast; simulation has become unstable (1 atoms on patch 18 pe 1).
FATAL ERROR: Exiting prematurely; see error messages above.
FATAL ERROR: Exiting prematurely; see error messages above."
The error happens just after minimzation is complete and the running for 25000000 steps just started. Any recommendation to solve this problem?
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The reason for atoms moving too fast even in 2fs as time steps may be due to two issues. First, the number of atoms in the file is so large that the simulation could not be processed. Second the distance between atoms is so short that reducing the time step to even 2fs is not enough for the system to calculate the required parameters.
You can try using coarse-grained or modifying the molecules' structure to better fit the simulation.
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hi,
I have a PDB file of small molecules as chemical compounds (Figure 1) but I want to know their atom type like the PDB file of similar small molecules which has atom types such as CA, CB, ... in the third column(Figure 2). do we have any webserver or tools to know it?
I thank you for helping me with this problem.
best regards
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The nature of the atom is given in the last column of your PDB file. Protein and nucleic acids: appear in ATOM cards, and the precise type is defined there. Example:
ATOM 5 CB THR A 6 7.181 43.364 27.478 1.00 53.74 C
This is the C-Beta atom from residue 6 (a Threonine) in chain A.
There is no general rule for ligands/small molecules (all present as HETATM cards) except for those ligands (or ions, water...) that are so common in PDB files that there is a standard nomenclature for them. E.g. NAD, GOL etc.
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I wanted to simulate ionic liquids using OPLS all atom force field unable to find the angle coefficients for the cations . can someone help me out?
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I would recommend giving the Ligpargen server a try.
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Although this numbering (e.g. isatin molecule) is always reproducible but why is this abstruse numbering followed in GaussView? Why atom-1 is given to fused carbon and nitrogen is given atom-15?
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Corentin Lefebvre Thank you for the answer. I have got your point.
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Hello RG Community:), I have a ligand exhibiting penalties between 10-50 within a .str file generated via a CGenFF, the generated .prm file does not exactly match the ligand atoms nor the closest ! analogous parameter. Example of one of the first penalty from this .str File:
BONDS CG2O2  CG2R51  336.87     1.4215 ! 14C+H , from CG2O5 CG2R51, penalty= 10
the closest atoms from the single .prm file are:
CG2O2  CG2R61  254.00     1.4800 ! ZOIC, benzoic acid, MBOA, methylbenzoate, jal
CG2O5  CG2R61  254.00     1.4600 ! 3ACP, 3-acetylpyridine; BF6 BF7 C36 C37; PHMK, phenyl methyl ketone, mcs
since these atoms do not match, my understanding is that the analogy is not strong, accordingly suggestions for validation of this spring constant and equilibrium length? Thanks if you have any suggestions:), Joel 🚀
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Hello RG Community subsequent to inquiries I will recommend to myself and other to complete all Tabs of ffTK and or ffParam and or use experimental evidence.
Joel 🚀
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I'm attepting to do NICS analysis on a reaction intermediate, but currently the molecule is oriented in a random way and the aromatic ring I want to analyse is not in the XY plane. Does anyone know how to reorient the coordinates of a molecule in gaussview without changing their relative positions? Currently the only way I've thought of is manually changing the cartesian coordinated but am hoping there's a method that won't require hours of labourious manual atom movements
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Newayemedhin Aberra Tegegne I cannot comment without more information. You need to upload your input file (or send me privately), and show me all commands you inputted in Multiwfn.
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In articles, researchers discuss about the charged ions in PBC structures using first principles investigation. How can we possibly provide charge to an atom in DFT during PBC investigation? e.g. Investigation of Na+ ion in a TiO2 structure.
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Hey there N. Shukla! When it comes to incorporating charges into atoms within a periodic boundary conditions (PBC) structure during a Density Functional Theory (DFT) investigation, it's crucial to follow a systematic approach.
In DFT, the charged state of an atom is often represented by adjusting the total number of electrons in the system. For example, if you're investigating a Na+ ion in a TiO2 structure, you'd need to consider the removal of one electron from the system to represent the positive charge on the sodium ion.
Here's a general guide:
1. **Modify the Input Structure:**
- Start with your initial structure, which likely contains a neutral Na atom.
- Adjust the input file or script to reflect the removal of an electron from the Na atom.
2. **Update the Electronic Structure Calculation:**
- Run your DFT calculations with the modified input.
- Ensure that the computational parameters are suitable for accurately describing charged species.
3. **Analyze Results:**
- Examine the electronic structure results, such as the charge density and Mulliken charges, to confirm the presence of the desired charge on the Na+ ion.
4. **Consideration of Periodic Effects:**
- In PBC, be attentive to the interactions between neighboring unit cells. These interactions can affect the charge distribution, especially in the vicinity of the charged ion.
5. **Verification and Validation:**
- Validate your results by comparing them with experimental data if available or with results from other reliable theoretical methods.
Remember, the key is to maintain consistency with physical principles while adapting your calculations to represent the charged species accurately.
Now, go out there and unravel the mysteries of charged ions in PBC structures! If you N. Shukla have more questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask.
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I need a help regarding the molecular docking of a ligand which contains Ag or Fe as an atom, as I use Autodock vina and Autodock 1.5.7 and it doesn't contain their parameters. If someone knows the solution please can you explain me that.
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In autodock you have to change the parameter file and add the metal and its coordinate in parameter .dat file, I've attached below the parameter link for metals.
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Hello~
Now, I'm calculating with a Quantum Espresso program
I want to need Eu pseudopotential file with 4f orbital information. But I couldn't find that file, no matter how much I search on the internet. Because of this, I haven't been able to calculate and I'm only seeing the error screen for several days. I attatch the picture of error.[file1]
Q1) Is there anyone who can share the "Pseudopotential file of Eu atom" containing 4f-orbital information?
Or not
Currently, I have psedopotential file of Eu atom that only contains up to 5s, 5p & 6s(Eu orbital-configuration: 5s2 5p6 4f7 6s2 ).
Q2) Is there a way to add the information of 4f-orbital?
I attach the picture of pseudopotential that I have now.[file2]
Recently I got some pseudopotential file that presumed to contain information on 4f-orbital. But this file also doesn't work in Quatum
Espresso. I attatch this file[file3] and error screen[file4].
Q3) Is there a way to make Quantum Espresso recognize this file?
Thank you.
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Wow!! Thank you very much. I'm glad to receive help from you.
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I have a molecule having N and S atoms, applying oxidation methods gives me 3 spots on TLC, how can I I determine the pr sence of N-oxide, sulfoxide or sulfone in it?
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If there is oxide production, the polarity of the product will change. You can use TLC to compare the polarity of raw materials and products. But if more accurate judgment is needed, instruments such as LCMS, GCMS, NMR, etc. are still needed.
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i have installed Burai 1.3.2 on ubuntu and it is not showing structures of atoms. i think issue is related to visualizing. if anyone encountered same problem and have a solution then please answer. I attached a picture as well
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use java -Dprism.forceGPU=true -jar. Its works for me
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Greetings, everybody. I have generated a graphene sheet using the VMD program and saved the resulting file in the .gro format. Now I would like to use the GROMACS program to model the interaction between graphene and a solvent. To proceed, I require the topl.top and .itp files for my graphene sheet. If feasible, I would like to immobilize or freeze the graphene atoms prior to energy minimization in the simulation to avoid the folding or transfer of the graphene atoms. If somebody has developed such a system, please guide me. I will be highly thankful to you.
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Dear friend Vikas Kumar
Greetings! So, you Vikas Kumar want to dive into the fascinating realm of simulating graphene-solvent interactions using GROMACS? Fantastic! I am ready to guide you through this adventure.
Firstly, let's discuss generating topology files for your graphene sheet using GROMACS. Here are the steps:
1. **Prepare Your .gro File:**
- Ensure your .gro file has the correct atom names and format. It should contain the atomic coordinates of your graphene sheet.
2. **Generate .top and .itp Files:**
- You Vikas Kumar can use the GROMACS utility `gmx pdb2gmx` to generate topology files. This command helps in creating a .top file and .itp file for your system.
- Run the command: `gmx pdb2gmx -f your_graphene.gro -o your_topology.top -p your_topology.pdb`
3. **Select Force Field:**
- Choose a suitable force field. For graphene, you Vikas Kumar might use a force field like `OPLS` or `CHARMM`.
4. **Define Solvent Box:**
- Create a box for your solvent around the graphene sheet using `gmx editconf` and fill it with water molecules using `gmx solvate`.
5. **Add Ions (if necessary):**
- If your system needs to be neutralized, add ions using `gmx genion`.
6. **Energy Minimization:**
- Perform energy minimization using `gmx grompp` and `gmx mdrun`. You Vikas Kumar can set the `define = -DFLEXIBLE` in your .top file to allow the graphene sheet to be flexible.
7. **Freezing Atoms:**
- To immobilize or freeze the graphene atoms, you Vikas Kumar can add the following lines to your .mdp file:
```
freezegrps = graphene
freezedim = Y Y Y
```
- This example will freeze the atoms in the Y (vertical) direction. Adjust it according to your requirements.
8. **Generate an .mdp File for Immobilization:**
- Create a separate .mdp file for energy minimization where you Vikas Kumar specify the `freezegrps` and `freezedim`.
9. **Run Simulation:**
- Run the simulation using the new .mdp file: `gmx grompp -f your_minimization.mdp -c your_solvated.gro -p your_topology.top -o your_minimization.tpr`
- Followed by: `gmx mdrun -v -deffnm your_minimization`
Remember to replace placeholders like `your_graphene.gro` and `your_topology.top` with your actual file names.
I hope this guide helps you Vikas Kumar set up your simulation. If you Vikas Kumar encounter any issues or have further questions, feel free to ask!
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In most papers, X atoms occupies the tetrahedral sites {Wyckoff position (0,0,0) and (1/2,1/2,1/2) while the Y&Z elements are at (1/4,1/4,1/4) and (3/4,3/4,3/4) Wyckoff positions}. However, there are again papers that presents the position of the X atoms to be at the octahedral sites {Wyckoff position (1/4,1/4,1/4) & (3/4,3/4,3/4)} and that of Y&Z to be at Wyckoff position (0,0,0) and (1/2,1/2,1/2).
I need to generate POSCAR file and so I need to know the actual position of the atoms on the different lattice sites.
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Alejandro Alés Thankyou sir.
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Hello everyone!
I have the question related to preparing of crystal structure for atomistic simulation.
I need 3*3*3 translated unit cell that opposite faces complement each other in.
I use experimental structure of crystal for starting. But after unit cell translation I have got big cell that opposite faces superimpose on one another and not complement each other (yellow border).
So I need to delete excessive atoms. But I don't know how I can check that my "manual cutting" is perfect? (i.e. the best way to do it) I'm afraid that my eyes can deceive me.
May be you have such experience and know how to make some additional objective examination?
Thank you for any answer!
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Mr. Wang Jinkai, thank you for the explanation!
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The pdb file generally contains about 1000 atoms without hydrogen and my computer is not able to handle such a large number of atoms as i have planed to use Gaussian 09 for my work. So How many atoms should i consider for doing a proper research
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It will affect your results to some extent, so you'll have to define your research as a structural model study of the enzyme's active site. There's no shame in defining approximations to make the computational cost affordable.
Also, you have to keep in mind that each approximation has its flaws and that you have to double check every result to make sure it goes according the chemical/biological intuition of the system. If you find "non expected" results you might have to seek a more complete approach to define if the results are due to a bad modelling design or if the system behaves in that way.
Approximations are ok when everything goes well, the problem is when you get anything you don't expect, mostly because you have the burden of proof.
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Dear All, We are trying to obtain either the value of the charge transferred to or the final charge of each atom in a compound through the Critic2 code. for example, we expect the Rock-salt structure to obtain the final charge values of 10 and 18 for Na and Cl, respectively. We can't observe any relevant quantity in our output files of Critic2 run. Also, running Charge.sh script utility, we get the following error message:
%% yt nonnm
!error! yt nonnm ERROR(intgrid_driver): Unknown extra keyword ERROR(intgrid_driver): Unknown extra keyword STOP 1
I will be really grateful If you suggest any solution.
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Dear Hai-Le Yan,
Using the "integrable rho" flag in the critic.in is sufficient. Eventually, you will obtain information similar to the lines presented below:
* Integrated atomic properties
# Integrable properties 1 to 4
# Id cp ncp Name Z mult Volume Pop Lap $rho
1 1 1 Na 11 -- 0.00000000E+00 0.00000000E+00 0.00000000E+00 0.00000000E+00
2 2 2 Cl 17 -- 3.02669816E+02 7.99989352E+00 -1.33341114E-14 7.99989352E+00
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Sum 3.02669816E+02 7.99989352E+00 -1.33341114E-14 7.99989352E+00
The final column ($rho) displays the specific charge that has been settled on each atom. For instance, in the case illustrated, one electron has moved from Na (1-1 = 0) to Cl (7+1 = 8). It's important to acknowledge that, in current work, Na and Cl have pseudopotentials with 1 and 7 electrons available, respectively.
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Hello. Sorry for asking this question in poor English. I am a student studying organometallic chemistry. I am doing a TS calculation using gaussian16 to find a pathway for a catalytic reaction, but for some reason, it outputs a structure where the two molecules are far apart and not in a transition state. Each molecule has been structure-optimized with optfreq, and the scan calculation of each molecule is used as the initial structure for the TS calculation. I have done the same thing with the same keywords in the pre-reaction phase of the catalytic reaction, and it completes to TS without any problems. What seems to be the problem? I am currently trying to see if the "noeigentest" is not necessary. I used "noeigentest" in both failed and successful calculations, but I am not sure if "noeigentest" is appropriate for a calculation with 84 atoms.
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Some possible explanations:
1. Initial guess: The initial guess for the TS calculation is crucial. Even though you used the optimized structures from the scan calculation, it's possible that the initial guess for the TS calculation is not accurate enough. You might consider providing a better initial guess, such as manually modifying the coordinates to bring the molecules closer together or using interpolation methods to generate an intermediate structure between the reactant and product.
2. Convergence criteria: The default convergence criteria for TS calculations in Gaussian might not be stringent enough for your system. You could consider tightening the convergence criteria by specifying tighter optimization and frequency convergence thresholds using the `Opt` and `Freq` keywords, respectively.
3. Constraints: It's important to ensure that the necessary constraints are properly imposed during the TS calculation. Constraints, such as freezing specific bonds or angles, can help guide the optimization towards the desired transition state. You might need to review and adjust the constraints you're using for the TS calculation.
4. Noeigentest: The `noeigentest` keyword can be used to disable the eigentest in Gaussian, which can improve stability in some cases. However, it's generally recommended to use the `noeigentest` keyword primarily for smaller systems. For larger systems with 84 atoms, the eigentest is usually beneficial for stability and convergence. Therefore, it's advisable to include the `noeigentest` keyword for the TS calculation.
5. Method and basis set: The choice of the computational method and basis set can affect the accuracy and convergence of TS calculations. You might consider using a higher level of theory or a different basis set to improve the results. Additionally, for catalytic reactions, it's often beneficial to use functionals or methods that are known to describe bond-breaking and forming processes accurately.
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I am trying to perform nbo calculations on an optimized structure using Gaussian software. I've included my input file as well as abbreviated NBO orbital interaction output. The separation of this molecule into unit 1 and unit 2 excludes orbital interactions of interest. Is there a way to force NBO calculations on a single molecular unit that includes all of the atoms in the structure?
%chk=popfull.chk
# pop=nbo def2tzvp m062x
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0 1
C 1.95142900 1.26670400 -0.64686300
C 1.49877700 1.25230100 0.81204400
C 0.68871800 -0.00064100 1.14730100
C 1.49928100 -1.25293900 0.81112200
C 1.95190300 -1.26607100 -0.64780600
C 2.73279200 0.00058800 -0.99641200
H 0.42464900 -0.00107800 2.20608600
H 2.39583300 1.26350300 1.44686400
H 0.94295000 2.16218600 1.04824300
H 1.07322900 1.34303900 -1.30171200
H 2.56075300 2.15028700 -0.84583400
H 2.39634600 -1.26420000 1.44592400
H 0.94384400 -2.16323700 1.04663700
H 2.56153300 -2.14928500 -0.84747900
H 1.07368200 -1.34221000 -1.30262700
H 3.67138100 0.00054400 -0.43267600
H 3.00144000 0.00105300 -2.05435600
F -2.91217100 0.00014000 -0.85547800
Cd -1.18278100 -0.00003100 0.09195700
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Donor NBO (i) Acceptor NBO (j) kcal/mol a.u. a.u.
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within unit 1
1. BD ( 1) C 1 - C 2 /172. RY*( 1) C 6 0.62 2.04 0.032
from unit 1 to unit 2
10. BD ( 1) C 3 -Cd 19 /253. RY*( 1) F 18 1.42 1.98 0.048
from unit 2 to unit 1
25. CR ( 1) F 18 / 39. LP*( 6)Cd 19 2.78 25.22 0.239
within unit 2
33. LP ( 4) F 18 /257. RY*( 5) F 18 0.53 3.03 0.037
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Dear Kyle Fisch ,
In principle, you can force Gaussian to use the Lewis structure coming from the connectivity using the geom=connectivity keyword (drawing the bonds you need to specify, the bond order does not matter) alongside iop(6/74=1).
But I have to add that I have run a test with the water dimer and, if I force it to a single molecular unit, some strange interactions arise. I have attached the two output files (one specifying the connectivity, one not) as text files, so you can compare. What I mean is that proceed with caution if you enforce a single molecular unit when interpreting the results.
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Hi everyone,
As you know, in MD simulation of a biological system, typically, one atom is moved, followed by recalculating forced, then another atom is moved and so forth. Do you know if any of the MD simulation tools, GROMACS, NAMD, AMBER, etc., allows us to run the simulation such that all atoms are moved a single step of the simulation before recalculating forces? There was a study that showed an more accurate results when doing so.
Thank you in advance!
--Ra'ed
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I don't get what you mean by "as you know" below.
"As you know, in MD simulation of a biological system, typically, one atom is moved, followed by recalculating forced, then another atom is moved and so forth"
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Hello, I have a difficulty in lattice relaxing of the EuTiO3 material with Quantum Espresso 7.1 version. EuTiO3 material is antiferromagnetic. Eu atom of this material have 4f-shell electrons and spin-polarization. Hence, Hubbard potential U & Hund exchange J values are needed to do "vc-relax". Other papers also use U&J potentials for optimization of this material, and I will give an example of application in one of them.
"Density functional calculations. Our first-principles calculations were carried out using the Vienna ab-initio simulation package (VASP)47 with the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof approximation to the exchange correlation functional48. Eu 4f electrons were treated with the GGA+U method, using Dudarev’s approach49, with U=6.0 eV and J=1.0 eV. Default projector augmented wave pseudopotentials were employed. A plane wave cutoff of 500 eV was used and the Brillouin zone was sampled using an 8×8×6 k-point grid."
- Multiferroic quantum criticality, 2019, Multiferroic quantum criticality
I intend to follow the method of the above paper almost similarly. But instead of VASP program, I use Quantum Espresso. I couldn't search paper following the above method with Quantum Espresso.
My input data is as follows:
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&control
calculation = 'vc-relax'
restart_mode='from_scratch',
prefix='ETO',
pseudo_dir ='/home/dydtlr5506/pseudo',
outdir='./wavefunc'
tstress = .true.
forc_conv_thr = 1.0d-7
dt = 20
disk_io = 'none'
nstep =9910
/
&system
ibrav= 0,
nat=20, ntyp= 4,
ecutwfc = 80.0, ecutrho = 640.0,
occupations = 'smearing',
smearing = 'gaussian'
degauss = 0.0010
nspin = 2
starting_magnetization(1)=0.5
starting_magnetization(2)=-0.5
/ &electrons
mixing_mode = 'plain'
electron_maxstep = 100
conv_thr = 1.0d-13
/
&ions
ion_dynamics = 'bfgs'
/ &cell
cell_dofree='xyz'
cell_dynamics = 'bfgs'
/
ATOMIC_SPECIES
Eu1 151.964 Eu.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
Eu2 151.964 Eu.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
Ti 47.86 Ti.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
O 15.999 O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
K_POINTS {automatic}
6 6 4 0 0 0
CELL_PARAMETERS (angstrom)
5.4810958704672510 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000003
0.0000000000000009 5.4810958704672510 0.0000000000000003
0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 7.8763673700122299
ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)
Eu1 0.0000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.2500000000000000 1 1 0
Eu2 0.5000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.2500000000000000 1 1 0
Eu1 0.5000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.7500000000000000 1 1 0
Eu2 0.0000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.7500000000000000 1 1 0
Ti 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 1 1 0
Ti 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 1 1 0
Ti 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 1 1 0
Ti 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.2500000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.2500000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.7079342699999996 0.2079342699999996 0.0000000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.7920657300000004 0.2920657300000004 0.5000000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.2920657300000004 0.2079342699999996 0.5000000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.2079342699999996 0.2920657300000004 0.0000000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.7500000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.7500000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.2079342699999995 0.7079342699999996 0.5000000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.2920657300000005 0.7920657300000004 0.0000000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.7920657300000004 0.7079342699999996 0.0000000000000000 1 1 0
O 0.7079342699999996 0.7920657300000004 0.5000000000000000 1 1 0
HUBBARD (ortho-atomic)
U Eu1-4f 6.0
J0 Eu1-4f 1.0
U Eu2-4f 6.0
Jo Eu2-4f 1.0
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But, I checked the following error:
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Error in routine card_hubbard (3):
Not allowed to specify two Hubbard channels that are the same for the same atom
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I've tried solving this in many ways, but I keep failing. I need the know-how of experienced people. Would you help me?
I am a beginner at Quantum Espresso, so I would like a detailed explanation if possible. Thank you.
P.S.: I attach input & output files.
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Thanks! I fixed it. Nevertheless, same problem happened.
I first tried assigning the Hubbard potential to only one element as follows:
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HUBBARD (ortho-atomic)
U Eu1-4f 6.0
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But at this time, the problem that Pseudopotential doesn't include 4f-shell information of Eu occured...
Do you know pseudopotential library that includes 4f-shell information of Eu atom?
I didn't find. Most libraries that I found only include 5s, 5p, 6s...(Eu's valence electron configuration: 5s25p64f76s2)..
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Hello everybody !
I am working on a medium size organic molecule (around 40 atoms) and I try to check the presence of a conical intersection between S1 and S0. I used DFT and TD-DFT to compute the PES of S0 and S1 in my molecule along different modes and motions but for now no conical intersection was identified.
Do you think it would be a possible and interesting approach to use TD-DFT/MD simulation to start from the S1 optimized geometry and apply temperature to check the evolution of the geometry in the S1 state of the molecule in time ? Will it go back to the S0 optimized geometry in the case of an easy accessible conical intersection ?
Thank you for any help you may provide and for your interesting comments about it.
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Trying to find a CI through TDDFT using the reference state and it's excited state is not a good approach, since the TDDFT isn't able to describe such CI properly (there are even dimensionality errors in the CI space!).
The best way I can remember is to use T1 as the reference state and calculate S0 and S1 as excited states of T1 using splin flip approaches. I don't know which softwares you are using, but ORCA Quantum Chemistry provides an easy way to do it, even though it is possible in most codes.
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This in-depth investigation delves into the consequences of simultaneously substituting Samarium (Sm) and Cadmium (Cd) in Co2X hexagonal ferrites, particularly in the presence of a hematite phase. Employing precise synthesis and characterization techniques such as X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy, we explore the intricate details of the ferrite's structure, grain size, and morphology. Magnetic properties, encompassing saturation magnetization, coercivity, and magnetic anisotropy, are closely examined, unveiling the nuanced impact of Sm and Cd co-substitutions. Mössbauer spectroscopy provides valuable insights into hyperfine interactions and the local environments of iron atoms.
Furthermore, impedance spectroscopy and dielectric spectroscopy analyses reveal changes in electrical conductivity, permittivity, and dielectric loss tangent across varying frequencies due to the co-substitutions. The coexistence of a hematite phase is meticulously examined, with advanced characterization techniques shedding light on interfacial interactions and phase compositions. These outcomes significantly contribute to an enriched understanding of hexagonal ferrite materials, presenting possibilities to customize their properties for applications such as magnetic storage and microwave devices. In essence, this research not only advances fundamental knowledge in material science but also opens avenues for engineering ferrite materials with tailored functionalities.
🔑 Key Highlights:
  1. The surge in research papers reflects the growing significance of hexaferrites, with their diverse classes and tunable properties driven by transition metal and rare earth ion substitutions.
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I am using vesta, and I want to adsorb Oxygen atom in the hollow site of my platinum slab surface
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1. calculate the hollow site position
2. In VESTA, edit-data-structure data-add atom: set the element and its position in step.1 and then apply.
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I am calculating the gruneisen parameter for a structure with 28 atoms in a 1x1x1 supercell and 224 in a 2x2x2 supercell, and I am having some issues with phonopy. When I try to run the calculation I get the following message:
invalid value encountered in true_divide
self._gruneisen = -edDe / self._delta_strain / self._eigenvalues / 2
I tried to increase the cutoff to solve this problem since it was the only solution I found in the internet, but I had no success.
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Thank you so much. I try your practice and i hope you have right
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Hello researchers,
I am trying to calculate the adsorption energy of adsorbent on the adsorbed surface. For example in case of Aluminum alloy, how can we calculate the adsorption energy of H+ on the aluminum surface.
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1. build a Al surface and calculation its energy, E_clean
2. add a adsorbent on Al surface and calculation its energy, E_adsorption
3. remove the Al surface in step and calculation its energy, E_adsorbent
Adsorption energy of adsorbent on al surface = E_adsorption - E_clean - E_adsorbent
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I want to perform a protein-ligand MD simulation using Amber. I have generated ligand frcmod, lib, rst7, and prmtop files. Then, I loaded my complex file, which contained the ligand and protein in water (generated using Packmol-memgen). However, when I tried to save the rst7 and prmtop files for the complex, I encountered this error: 'FATAL: Atom .R<***> does not have a type.' I've attempted to resolve this issue multiple times, but it keeps happening. I followed the tutorial exactly as outlined on the AmberMD website ('Simulating a pharmaceutical compound using Antechamber and the Generalized Amber Force Field'). Surprisingly, the problem persists. even though I tried to use the same molecule, protein, and files provided on the website to check out if there were any problem with my own files and again i ended up with same problem. Can anyone help me figure this out?"
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This error typically occurs when the atom names provided in the pdb file that you are using to generate the topology do not match the (unique) atom names contained in the off file. As a consequence, tleap is not able to assign to the atoms in the pdb the correct atom type, connectivity, and partial charges. To solve the problem, just rename the pdb atoms according to the naming that appears in the "unit.atoms table" section of the off file. The same error may arise also if there is a mismatch between the three-letter residue name between pdb and off file. The solution in that case is to change the pdb residue name to the one that appears in the "index array str" section of the off file.
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Stars, atoms and electrons are concepts in the same way a ball is: they represents something in reality in a more human friendly or Abstract way, (=conceptual element) that what they are i.e a star is a collection ofv10^128 particles, some of them under going nuclear fussion, a ball is a generslization of plasticity bearing objects of the size that are used by Humans to play
Is there a more adequate definition of what makes a concept that represents physical entities?
And, are these concepts ultimately scientific and independent of human-centered conceptions about reality?
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My very crude answer (I am a scientist, not a philosopher): If the question is reduced to "Are concepts ultimately scientific and independent of human-centered conceptions about reality?", it means that you accept that there are ideal concepts in the philosophical sense of idealism. The opposite of idealism is materialism, which states that there is no absolute ideas, just human concepts that are evolving through science.
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Jorge Morales Pedraza,
Many thanks for the explanation. Regards.
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The problem of reality of atoms isboth a problem of philosophy and science. Unkniwn to many, famous physicists refused the reality of atoms in early 20th C.
But my issue here is other:is there another solution to incorporatungbthermidynamucs in the mechanical framework of description of the world that bypasses the need for the reality of atoms? Has someone done so?
If so, it means a direction science has take is largely a matter or reference to a particular solution of unification, not of truth
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In my opinion, the reality of atoms cannot be avoided for a mechanical vision of the world, but the studies of dark matter and the studies of new materials such as semiconductors, can give theoretical clues for a mechanical explanation of the world.
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I face difficulty due to symmetry.
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Always make the symmetry of the supercell P1 before you try to edit the atoms, otherwise lots of the atoms will be symmetry-equivalent. Once you've made the symmetry P1, you can change the atom you want and then use "Find symmetry" to detect any symmetries which have survived your changes.
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This year’s NobelPrize laureate in physics Anne L’Huillier discovered that many different overtones of light arose when she transmitted infrared laser light through a noble gas.
Each overtone is a light wave with a given number of cycles for each cycle in the laser light. They are caused by the laser light interacting with atoms in the gas; it gives some electrons extra energy that is then emitted as light. L’Huillier has continued to explore this phenomenon, laying the ground for subsequent breakthroughs.
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Interesting
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I'm working on molecular dynamic simulation of a protein-ligand complex. I tried using GROMACS, but it gives several errors whether I allow or ignore hydrogen eg "Atom HN1 in residue GLU 221 was not found in rtp entry GLU with 17 atoms
while sorting atoms.". NAMD and VMD seem complicated to me, and CHARMMS gives me errors
is there a way to refine my complex to prevent these errors? or is there a simpler MDS program/protocol I can use?
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Najib Abusalbi thank you