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Quantum confinement of molecular deuterium clusters in carbon nanotubes: ab initio evidence for hexagonal close packing

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An ab initio study of quantum confinement of deuterium clusters in carbon nanotubes is presented. First, density functional theory (DFT)-based symmetry-adapted perturbation theory is used to derive parameters for a pairwise potential model describing the adsorbate–nanotube interaction. Next, we analyze the quantum nuclear motion of N D2 molecules (N o 4) confined in carbon nanotubes using a highly accurate adsorbate-wave-function-based approach, and compare it with the motion of molecular hydrogen. We further apply an embedding approach and study zero-point energy effects on larger hexagonal and heptagonal structures of 7–8 D2 molecules. Our results show a preference for crystalline hexagonal close packing hcp of D2 molecules inside carbon nanotubes even at the cost of a reduced volumetric density within the cylindrical confinement.

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hal-01629112 , version 1 (06-11-2017)

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María Pilar de Lara-Castells, Andreas W. Hauser, Alexander O. Mitrushchenkov, Ricardo Fernández-Perea. Quantum confinement of molecular deuterium clusters in carbon nanotubes: ab initio evidence for hexagonal close packing. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017, 19 (42), pp.28621 - 28629. ⟨10.1039/C7CP05869A⟩. ⟨hal-01629112⟩
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