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Yong-Hui Wei1, Jian-Bo Cheng, Bing Zhao
1College of Chemistry and Biology, Beihua University, Jilin 132013, China. bhhxwyh@163.com
Abstract:
Bulk intermetallic Ti-Cu compounds have been found to possess special properties, including increased hardness, as well as displaying enhanced sound absorption and e shape memory. Since only one Raman progression is observed, there is not sufficient information to determine the structure of TiCu3. The different structures and vibrational frequencies of the Cu3 Ti cluster were studied by means of the density functional theory with SVWN5, B3LYP and BPW91 methods at basis sets of lanl2dz, 6-31g, 6-311g, 6-311g(d), 6-311 +/- g(2df) and 6-311 +/- g(3d2f). The calculated results show that the ground state of the Cu3 Ti cluster is a e-type structure with the C2v point group symmetry, and the bond lengths and vibrational frequencies of Cu3 T are considerably dependent on the variation of basis sets. We observed only a single Raman progression in approximately 300 cm(-1). This progression is most likely the totally symmetric stretch. The computed and observed Raman spectra were also compared with each other.
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