RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Adsorption and growth of palladium clusters on graphdiyne A1 Seif, A. A1 López Santodomingo, María José A1 Granja del Río, Alejandra A1 Azizi, K. A1 Alonso Martín, Julio Alfonso K1 graphdiyne K1 palladium doping AB The density functional formalism has been used to investigate the stability and the properties of small palladium clusters supported on graphdiyne layers. The large triangular holes existing on the graphdiyne structure provide efficient sites to hold the clusters at small distances from the plane of the graphdiyne layer. The cluster adsorption energies, between 3 and 4 eV, are large enough to maintain the clusters tightly bound to the triangular holes. The competition between dispersion of Pd atoms on graphdiyne and growth of Pd clusters in the triangular holes of the layer is also discussed. In addition, the triangular holes can be simultaneously decorated with clusters on both sides. This indicates that palladium clusters could be used to build nanostructures formed by stacked graphdiyne layers with tailored interlayer distances controlled by the size of the clusters. The size of the clusters also controls the electronic HOMO–LUMO gap of the material. PB Royal Society of Chemistry YR 2017 FD 2017 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/29140 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/29140 LA eng NO Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19, 19094 (2017) DS UVaDOC RD 26-dic-2024