id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 8w32r496x25 Wenguang Lin DFT Simulations of Re3 Metal Cluster Binding on Alumina in Hydrogen Environments 2010 .txt text/plain 362 12 39 To compare the effects of surface hydroxylation on cluster-support binding, periodic supercell simulations are performed on Re3 clusters adsorbed on a hydrogen-free ('dry') and fully hydroxylated ('wet') ÌøåÁ-alumina (0001) surface. In this thesis, molecular-level density functional theory (DFT) simulations and periodic supercell and cluster models are used to describe a trinuclear rhenium (Re3) cluster adsorbed on an alumina (Al2O3) support as a function of reaction environments. cache/8w32r496x25.txt txt/8w32r496x25.txt