@article {47774,
	title = {Electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction directed through the p-band center of boron on BSAC@Mo2C},
	journal = {Materials Advances},
	year = {2021},
	month = {NOV},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Greener modes of ammonia synthesis via the electrocatalytic route have been investigated on pristine and defective Mo2C based monolayers anchored with metal-free boron atom catalysts. Boron single atom catalysts (SACs) on the defective Mo2C monolayer has been found to activate N2 strongly with an adsorption energy of -1.92 eV and reduce it to NH3 efficiently with a significantly low overpotential of 0.41 eV. The exothermic adsorption of N2 and low overpotential for the nitrogen reduction reduction (NRR) appertain to the p-band center of the boron atom catalyst and charge transfer between the adsorbed N2 and the catalyst, respectively. This work brings forth the correlation between electron occupancy on the boron center and NRR catalytic efficiency on a metal-free SACs@Mo2C monolayer couple, thereby serving as a lead in designing metal free electrocatalysts for the NRR.},
	doi = {10.1039/D1MA00953B},
	author = {Maibam, Ashakiran and Krishnamurty, Sailaja and Dar, Manzoor Ahmad}
}
@article {47897,
	title = {Exploring the structure and electronic properties of germanium doped boron clusters using density functional theory based global optimization method},
	journal = {New Journal of Chemistry},
	volume = {46},
	year = {2022},
	month = {MAR },
	pages = {6244-6254},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>
	Density functional theory calculations in the framework of B3LYP, TPSS and M06-L were carried out to investigate the effect of single and double germanium atom doping on the geometric structure and electronic properties of boron clusters with 10 to 20 atoms. Global minima of GeBn and Ge2Bn (n = 10-20) were first obtained through Crystal Structure Analysis by the Particle Swarm Optimization method and then subsequently optimized using meta-generalized gradient approximation, hybrid and local functionals. It is found that the lowest energy structures of GeBn and Ge2Bn clusters exhibit planar, quasi-planar, semi-cage, bowl, and double ring topologies. Like BnSi clusters, the results reveal that the germanium atom prefers the peripheral regions of the B-n framework contrary to transition metal doped boron clusters. Furthermore, the calculated electronic properties such as the average binding energy and second order difference in binding energy indicate GeB20 and Ge2B16 to be the most stable clusters. Molecular orbital and adaptive natural density partitioning analyses were carried out to understand the extra stability of GeB20 and Ge2B16 clusters.</p>
},
	issn = {1144-0546},
	doi = {10.1039/d2nj00227b},
	author = {Anis, Insha and Dar, Mohd Saleem and Rather, Ghulam Mohammad and Dar, Manzoor Ahmad}
}
