New Carbon Allotropes In Sp + Sp(3) Bonding Networks Consisting Of C-8 Cubes

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-18-2018

Publication Title

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volume

20

Issue

12

First page number:

7962

Last page number:

7967

Abstract

We identify using ab initio calculations new types of three-dimensional carbon allotrope constructed by inserting acetylenic or diacetylenic bonds into a body-centered cubic C8 lattice. The resulting sp + sp3-hybridized cubane-yne and cubane-diyne structures consisting of C8 cubes can be characterized as a cubic crystalline modification of linear carbon chains, but energetically more favorable than the simplest linear carbyne chain and the cubic tetrahedral diamond and yne-diamond consisting of C4 tetrahedrons. Electronic band calculations indicate that these new carbon allotropes are semiconductors with an indirect band gap of 3.08 eV for cubane-yne and 2.53 eV for cubane-diyne. The present results establish new types of carbon phases consisting of C8 cubes and offer insights into their outstanding structural and electronic properties.

Keywords

Networks; Dehydrobenzoannulenes; Substructures; Diamond; Phases; Forms

Disciplines

Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology

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