Cristais de ácido glutâmico: crescimento, caracterização e cálculos ab initio

Abstract

Done the work accomplish in this thesis it seeks the crystallization of the glutamic acid, favoring the obtaining of the phase α (metastable) in relation to the polymorph β. After the obtaining of the crystals they did take place the experimental measures of fluorescence, with views the comparison with the obtained theoretical data, considering the limitations of the method of simulation used ab-initio. Were the calculations of first principles accomplished to study the properties of the crystal of the glutamic acid in the modifications α and β in what she refers to the aspect structural, electronic (structure of bands) and optical (function of the dieletric complex), everything this in relation to the polymorphism conformational. The theory of the functional of the density (TFD) is it considered using a base of plane waves, pseudo potential ultrasoft, and the correlation-change potential inside of the Generalized-Gradient Approximation (GGA). Are the net parameters in agreement with the experimental results, although in the form α is it foreseen to have an indirect gap between the points of high symmetry and X, equal to 4.69 eV, for the form β a conclusion cannot be reached on the direct gap (-), due to imprecision of the calculation. The function dieletric of both polymorph are very similar in the case of a sample polycrystal, but it differs strongly in the case of the polarization of the light of the faces of the crystal 100 and 010