Chemical reactions, charge transfer reactions, and magnetic materials are notoriously difficult to describe within Kohn−Sham density functional theory, which is strictly a groundstate technique. However, over the last few decades, an approximate method known as constrained density functional theory (cDFT) has been developed to model low-lying excitations linked to charge transfer or spin ...

Fluorinated compounds in the last decade were applied as photothermo-refractive glasses, high-stress lubricants, and pharmaceutical drugs due to their good mechanical properties and biocompatibility. Although fluorinated materials are largely employed, the possibility of predicting new structures was limited by the impossibility to use density functional theory (DFT) to describe interatomic ...

We propose the Zn₂V(_1–x)Nb_xN₃ alloy as a new promising material for optoelectronic applications, in particular for light-emitting diodes (LEDs). We perform accurate electronic-structure calculations of the alloy for several concentrations x using density-functional theory with meta-GGA exchange–correlation functional TB09. The band gap is found to vary ...

Computational methods are increasingly used to support interpreting, assigning and predicting the solid-state nuclear resonance magnetic spectra of materials. Currently, density functional theory is seen to achieve a good balance between efficiency and accuracy in solid-state chemistry. To be specific, density functional theory allows the assignment of signals in nuclear resonance magnetic spectra ...

We aimed to assess the influence of professional dental prophylaxis on the translucency and color stability of a novel simplified shade nanohybrid composite material. Sixty composite disks (5 mm in diameter and 2 mm thick) of light (n = 30) and dark (n = 30) shades were prepared. The specimens were randomly divided into the following three groups (n = 10) according to the prophylaxis procedure ...