Development of Classical Force Fields for Interfaces between Single Molecules and Au.

Interfaces between metals and organic materials play an essential role in molecular surface science, photovoltaics, or molecular electronics. Modeling the evolution of interface geometry over sufficiently long timescales requires an accurate parameterization of the relevant metal-molecule interactions. Here, we describe a method for calculating interface parameters from reference density functional theory calculations of small metal-molecule complexes. We apply this method to develop a parameter set for a series of metal-molecule-metal junctions. We study the dynamics of short oligophenyls with amine, methyl-sulfide, or direct Au-C links, which are bonded to Au(111) via small adatom structures. Nanosecond classical molecular dynamics simulations using the generated parameter set reveal insight into molecular degrees of freedom not accessible from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Journal of Physical Chemistry A

• Publication date

  2022-07-26

• Fields of study

  Physics, Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c02514PMID 35880700
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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