Electronic Properties of Adsorption Nitrogen Monoxide on Inside and Outside of the Armchair Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes: A Density Functional Theory Calculations

Abstract

Density functional theory (DFT) was used to study the adsorption of nitrogen monoxide (NO) on the armchair (4, 4), (5, 5), (6, 6), and (7, 7) carbon nanotubes. The effect of molecular orientation on the adsorption process was also studied. Both the external (two modes, N-down and O-down; NO molecular axis perpendicular to the C atoms of the nanotubes) and internal (one mode, NO molecular axis perpendicular to the z axis of a nanotube) adsorption orientations were studied. The adsorption energies, equilibrium distances, highest-occupied molecular orbital−lowest-unoccupied molecular orbital energy gap, and partial charges of the C atoms were also found. The global indices were calculated using the Kopmann's theorem. Computational results show that NO molecules are physisorbed on both sites (external and internal) of the nanotubes; for the O-down mode, the NO molecules were strongly physisorbed. Stability of tube−molecule for the adsorption of NO molecules on the outer wall of a nanotube decreases as the tub...