LUMO

See also: lumo

English

Noun

LUMO (plural LUMOs)

1. (chemistry) Acronym of lowest unoccupied molecular orbital.
   • 2016 April 26, Jie Ma, Lin-Wang Wang, “Using Wannier functions to improve solid band gap predictions in density functional theory”, in Scientific Reports, volume 6, →DOI, article 24924, page 2:

     To be consistent with the terminology for solids, for molecules, we also call the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) the VBM and CBM, respectively.

See also

• HOMO

Anagrams

• mulo, omul, umol