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- Ahrén, Maria, et al.
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A simple polyol-free synthesis route to Gd 2O 3 nanoparticles for MRI applications : An experimental and theoretical study
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of nanoparticle research. - : Springer. - 1388-0764 .- 1572-896X. ; 14:8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Chelated gadolinium ions, e.g., Gd-DTPA, are today used clinically as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An attractive alternative contrast agent is composed of gadolinium oxide nanoparticles as they have shown to provide enhanced contrast and, in principle, more straightforward molecular capping possibilities. In this study, we report a new, simple, and polyol-free way of synthesizing 4-5-nm-sized Gd 2O 3 nanoparticles at room temperature, with high stability and water solubility. The nanoparticles induce high-proton relaxivity compared to Gd-DTPA showing r 1 and r 2 values almost as high as those for free Gd 3+ ions in water. The Gd 2O 3 nanoparticles are capped with acetate and carbonate groups, as shown with infrared spectroscopy, near-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and combined thermogravimetric and mass spectroscopy analysis. Interpretation of infrared spectroscopy data is corroborated by extensive quantum chemical calculations. This nanomaterial is easily prepared and has promising properties to function as a core in a future contrast agent for MRI.
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- Aidas, Kestutis, et al.
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The Dalton quantum chemistry program system
- 2014
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Ingår i: WIREs Computational Molecular Science. - : Wiley. - 1759-0876 .- 1759-0884. ; 4:3, s. 269-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Dalton is a powerful general-purpose program system for the study of molecular electronic structure at the Hartree-Fock, Kohn-Sham, multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, MOller-Plesset, configuration-interaction, and coupled-cluster levels of theory. Apart from the total energy, a wide variety of molecular properties may be calculated using these electronic-structure models. Molecular gradients and Hessians are available for geometry optimizations, molecular dynamics, and vibrational studies, whereas magnetic resonance and optical activity can be studied in a gauge-origin-invariant manner. Frequency-dependent molecular properties can be calculated using linear, quadratic, and cubic response theory. A large number of singlet and triplet perturbation operators are available for the study of one-, two-, and three-photon processes. Environmental effects may be included using various dielectric-medium and quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics models. Large molecules may be studied using linear-scaling and massively parallel algorithms. Dalton is distributed at no cost from for a number of UNIX platforms.
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- Cukras, Janusz, et al.
(författare)
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A complex-polarization-propagator protocol for magneto-chiral axial dichroism and birefringence dispersion
- 2016
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Ingår i: Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP. - : ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY. - 1463-9076 .- 1463-9084. ; 18:19, s. 13267-13279
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A computational protocol for magneto-chiral dichroism and magneto-chiral birefringence dispersion is presented within the framework of damped response theory, also known as complex polarization propagator theory, at the level of time-dependent Hartree-Fock and time-dependent density functional theory. Magneto-chiral dichroism and magneto-chiral birefringence spectra in the (resonant) frequency region below the first ionization threshold of R-methyloxirane and L-alanine are presented and compared with the corresponding results obtained for both the electronic circular dichroism and the magnetic circular dichroism. The additional information content yielded by the magneto-chiral phenomena, as well as their potential experimental detectability for the selected species, is discussed.
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- Fahleson, Tobias
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Development and characterization of damped cubic response functions with application to two-photon absorption
- 2015
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Molecular response to electromagnetic fields - static or optical - within a framework of perturbation theory diverges close to resonance with molecular transitionen energies, and need work-around solutions for real-valued response functions. This licentiate thesis deals with nonlinear response, with focus being on cubic polarizaibilities, and outlines the underlying mathematics for exact-state and approximatestate, complex-valued response functions applicable to quantum chemical computation. Such a complex-valued response theory is commonly known as dampedresponse theory, for which the response functions consists of a real and an imaginary component, each of them representing various spectroscopies in nature. In addition to the mathematics, the formulas have been implemented in the quantum chemical package DALTON, and several tests determining the integrity of the implementation has been conducted.The fourth and final major part of the thesis is concerned with applied nonlinear response theory, including not only cubic response functions, but also quadratic and linear response functions, some of which are of the more exotic character. Three spectroscopies have been investigated for small and medium-sized organic molecules and the neon atom: two-photon absorption (TPA), Jones birefringence (JB), and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD).The TPA part is a simple demonstration of capability of the damped cubic response code, for which neon is the example system. Perfect agreement is shown for the Ehrenfest approach and an independent implementation based on the quasienergy formalism.JB is an optical eect in which induced refractive anisotropy, by means of external electric and magnetic static elds, results in ellipticity of linearly polarized light beams. This part mainly discuss implications from a paper which the current author took part in. The paper ultimately attempts to indentify the general observable strength of the effect, and coincidentaly pin-point some particular system suitable for experiments. Among other finds, JB is found to be correlated to the electric dipole moment, and for monosubstituted benzenes, the para-Hammett constant.Finally, MCD is discussed based on three papers in which the present author is included. The elegant MCD solution to broad absorption peaks, for which it is desired to distinguish individual states, is demonstrated on adenine and three additional purine derivatives. A drawn out debate regarding relative stability of certain low-lying states could be settled by this method. Furthermore, appropriate description of solvation environment in conjunction with the exchange-correlation functionals B3LYP and CAM-B3LYP is investigated on purine and pyrimidine derivatives. CAM-B3LYP is found to be superior in terms of general prole shapes, while results regarding solvation model are rather inconclusive, although the results suggests some level of solvation model is appropriate, such as a polarizable continuum model or explicit solvation molecules.
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- Fahleson, Tobias, et al.
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TD-DFT investigation of the magnetic circular dichroism spectra of some purine and pyrimidine bases of nucleic acids
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Physical Chemistry A. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1089-5639 .- 1520-5215. ; 119:21, s. 5476-5489
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present a computational study of the magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra in the 200-300 nm wavelength region of purine and its derivative hypoxanthine, as well as of the pyrimidine bases of nucleic acids uracil, thymine, and cytosine, using the B3LYP and CAM-B3LYP functionals. Solvent effects are investigated within the polarizable continuum model and by inclusion of explicit water molecules. In general, the computed spectra are found to be in good agreement with the experimental ones, apart from some overall blue shifts. Both the pseudo-A term shape of the MCD spectra of the purines and the B term shape of the spectra of pyrimidine bases are reproduced. Our calculations also correctly reproduce the reversed phase of the MCD bands in purine compared to that of its derivatives present in nucleic acids. Solvent effects are sizable and system specific, but they do not in general alter the qualitative shape of the spectra. The bands are dominated by the bright π → π∗ transitions, and our calculations in solution nicely reproduce their energy differences, improving the estimates obtained in the gas phase. Shoulders are predicted for purine and uracil due to n → π∗ excitations, but they are too weak to be observed in the experiment.
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- Fahleson, Tobias, et al.
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The magnetic circular dichroism spectrum of the C-60 fullerene
- 2013
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Ingår i: Molecular Physics. - : Taylor and Francis: STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles. - 0026-8976 .- 1362-3028. ; 111:9-11, s. 1401-1404
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The magnetic circular dichroism spectrum of the C-60 fullerene has been determined with the use of Kohn-Sham density functional theory in conjunction with the CAM-B3LYP exchange-correlation functional. The experimental spectrum of Gasyna etal. [Chem. Phys. Lett. 183, 283 (1991)] covering the wavelength region above 200 nm is explained by the signal responses from the three lowest singlet states of T-1u symmetry.
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- Kauczor, Joanna, et al.
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Communication : A reduced-space algorithm for the solution of the complex linear response equations used in coupled cluster damped response theory
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Chemical Physics. - : American Institute of Physics (AIP). - 0021-9606 .- 1089-7690. ; 139:21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present a reduced-space algorithm for solving the complex (damped) linear response equations required to compute the complex linear response function for the hierarchy of methods: coupled cluster singles, coupled cluster singles and iterative approximate doubles, and coupled cluster singles and doubles. The solver is the keystone element for the development of damped coupled cluster response methods for linear and nonlinear effects in resonant frequency regions.
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- Kauczor, Joanna, et al.
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Efficient Calculations of Molecular Linear Response Properties for Spectral Regions
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. - : American Chemical Society. - 1549-9618 .- 1549-9626. ; 10:6, s. 2449-2455
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Molecular spectra can be determined from molecular response functions, by solving the so-called damped response equations using the complex polarization propagator approach. The overall structure of response equations is identical for variational wave functions such as the Hartree-Fock, multi-configuration self-consistent field, and Kohn-Sham density functional theory, and the key program module is the linear response equation solver. We present an implementation of the solver using the algorithm with symmetrized vectors, optimized for addressing spectral regions of a width of some 5-10 eV and a resolution below 0.1 eV. The work is illustrated by the consideration of UV-vis as well as near carbon K -edge absorption spectra of the C-60 fullerene. We demonstrate that it is possible to converge tightly response equations for hundreds of optical frequencies in resonance regions of the spectrum at a cost not much exceeding the solution of a single response equation in the nonresonant region. Our work is implemented in the molecular orbital based module of the Dalton program and serves as a documentation of the code distributed in the Dalton2013 release version.
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- Kauczor, Joanna, et al.
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Non-additivity of polarizabilities and van der Waals C6 coefficients of fullerenes
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Chemical Physics. - : American Institute of Physics (AIP). - 0021-9606 .- 1089-7690. ; 138:11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present frequency-dependent polarizabilities and C6 dipole-dipole dispersion coefficients for a wide range of fullerene molecules including C60, C70, C78, C80, C 82, and C84. The static and dynamic polarizabilities at imaginary frequencies are computed using time-dependent Hartree-Fock, B3LYP, and CAM-B3LYP ab initio methods by employing the complex linear polarization propagator and are subsequently utilized to determine the C6 coefficients using the Casimir-Polder relation. Overall, the C60 and C70 average static polarizabilities α(0) agree to better than 2 with linear-response coupled-cluster single double and experimental benchmark results, and the C6 coefficient of C60 agrees to better than 1 with the best accepted value. B3LYP provides the best agreement with benchmark results with deviations less than 0.1 in α(0) and C6. We find that the static polarizabilities and the C6 coefficients are non-additive, and scale, respectively, as N1.2 and N2.2 with the number of carbon atoms in the fullerene molecule. The exponent for C6 power-dependence on N is much smaller than the value predicted recently based on a classical-metallic spherical-shell approximation of the fullerenes.
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- Kauczor, Joanna, et al.
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On the Efficiency of Algorithms for Solving Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham Response Equations
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. - : AMER CHEMICAL SOC. - 1549-9618 .- 1549-9626. ; 7:6, s. 1610-1630
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The response equations as occurring in the Hartree-Fock, multiconfigurational self-consistent field, and Kohn-Sham density functional theory have identical matrix structures. The algorithms that are used for solving these equations are discussed, and new algorithms are proposed where trial vectors are split into symmetric and antisymmetric components. Numerical examples are given to compare the performance of the algorithms. The calculations show that the standard response equation for frequencies smaller than the highest occupied molecular orbital-lowest unoccupied molecular orbital gap is best solved using the preconditioned conjugate gradient or conjugate residual algorithms where trial vectors are split into symmetric and antisymmetric components. For larger frequencies in the standard response equation as well as in the damped response equation in general, the preconditioned iterative subspace approach with symmetrized trial vectors should be used. For the response eigenvalue equation, the Davidson algorithm with either paired or symmetrized trial vectors constitutes equally good options.
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