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<div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone,<br>
<br>
I'm making an adsorption study of carbon monoxide(CO) on pure
nickel(Ni) surfaces.<br>
I use the pseudopotential Ni.pbe-nd-rrkjus.UPF to optimized the
pure nickel system.<br>
Is it wrong to use C.pbe-van_ak.UPF for carbon and
O.pbe-van_ak.UPF for the oxygen rather than using C.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
and O.pbe-rrkjus.UPF<br>
When I use the <b>pbe-van_ak.UPF</b> to optimize the CO
separately, I get an energy of <b>-75.5429425135</b> Ry whereas <b>pbe-rrkjus.UPF</b>
gives me an energy of <b>-75.1901795049</b> Ry.<br>
<br>
In consideration of the energetics and stability, I want to go in
for the pbe-van_ak.UPF for the system of CO on Ni surface. Is it
wrong please?<br>
<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
<br>
Elliot</div>
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Elliot Sarpong Menkah
Graduate Student - Computational Chemistry / Computational Material Science.
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Dept. of Chemistry
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),
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Kumasi,
Ghana.
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