From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Aug 3 13:47:00 2007 From: "Shrinwantu Pal paul,+,jncasr.ac.in" To: CCL Subject: CCL:G: Siesta Message-Id: <-34869-070803133825-22129-duF2962qkoC5EMj4GI9nTw- -server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Shrinwantu Pal" Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:38:20 -0400 Sent to CCL by: "Shrinwantu Pal" [paul _ jncasr.ac.in] Dear esteemed suscribers, i am trying to figure out using siesta, how i can chemisorb different charged atoms onto MWCNTs. after optimization, is it possible to: see how the radial breathing modes (Raman vibrational modes) of cnt changes? i want to do this because mulliken analysis doesnt show much of charge transfer so it is difficult to understand whether this is chemisorption or physisorption (binding energies, i know). however ur expert suggestions regarding how i can use other softwares (adf/gaussian) to interpret this problem will be very helpful. also, can anyone lend me some light as to how i can perform some other calculations to understand physi/chemisorption of either neutral/charged species onto CNTs(like maybe TDDFT?) ? Thanks, Shrinwantu Pal TSU JNCASR Bangalore, India