Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2024,15, 310–316, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.28
/bjnano.15.28 Abstract The structural and electronic properties of zincclusters (Znn) for a size range of n = 2–15 are studied using density functional theory. The particle swarm optimization algorithm is employed to search the structure and to determine the ground-state structure of the neutral Zn
ionization potential compared to other methods.
Keywords: binding energies; CALYPSO structure prediction; DFT; G0W0 studies; zincclusters; zinc isomers; Introduction
Zinc is a group-IIB element that is frequently used as a galvanizing material and in storage media as an anode [1][2][3]. However, its
validated with a DFT approach, Aguado et al. calculated the binding energies of neutral and ionic Zn clusters [26]. The ground state structures of neutral zincclusters obtained in our work are shown in Figure 1. The ground state structures for sizes of n = 3–7 follow previous reports [6][7][27][28]. The
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Figure 1:
Geometrical structures of ground state Zn clusters.