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Study of Chemical Reactivity of Doped Carbon Nanotubes by Simple Hückel Molecular Orbital Calculations with Matlab Programming
YANG Longfei, ZHANG Yexin, DU Shiyu
CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
2017, 34 (6):
685-696.
DOI: 10.19596/j.cnki.1001-246x.7546
A Matlab program was self-developed for simple Hückel molecular orbital calculations, with which carbon nanotubes of CNT(5,5) doped with vacancy, Stone-Wales defect, N and B atoms were analyzed. Calculated π-electron density and frontier molecular orbitals (HOMO and LUMO) provide a basis to study chemical reactivity of CNTs. Homogenous distributions of π-electron, HOMO and LUMO are broken by dopants with different electronic character. Furthermore, dopants and/or nearby carbon atoms contribute more in HOMO or LUMO, behaving nucleophile or electrophile in different reactions, respectively. Calculated HOMO-LUMO gaps reflect electrical conductivity of doped CNTs well. Calculated results are in agreement with experimental and theoretical results reported elsewhere.
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