Structural, electronic, thermal and mechanical properties of C₆₀-based fullerene two-dimensional networks explored by first-principles and machine learning

verfasst von

Bohayra Mortazavi

Abstract

Recent experimental reports on the realizations of two-dimensional (2D) networks of the C₆₀-based fullerenes with anisotropic and nanoporous lattices represent a significant advance, and create exciting prospects for the development of a new class of nanomaterials. In this work, we employed theoretical calculations to explore novel C₆₀-based fullerene lattices and subsequently evaluate their stability and key physical properties. After the energy minimization of extensive structures, we could detect novel 2D, 1D and porous carbon C₆₀-based networks, with close energies to that of the isolated C₆₀ cage. Density functional theory results confirm that the C₆₀-based networks can exhibit remarkable thermal stability, and depending on their atomic structure show metallic, semimetallic or semiconducting electronic nature. Using the machine learning interatomic potentials, thermal and mechanical responses of the predicted nanoporous 2D lattices were investigated. The estimated thermal conductivity of the quasi-hexagonal-phase of C₆₀ fullerene is shown to be in an excellent agreement with the experimental measurements. Despite of different atomic structures, the anisotropic room temperature lattice thermal conductivity of the fullerene nanosheets are estimated to be in the order of 10 W/mK. Unlike the majority of carbon-based 2D materials, C₆₀-based counterparts noticeably are predicted to show positive thermal expansion coefficients. Porous carbon C₆₀-based networks are found to exhibit superior mechanical properties, with tensile strengths and elastic modulus reaching extraordinary values of 50 and 300 GPa, respectively. The theoretical results presented in this work provide a comprehensive vision on the structural, energetic, electronic, thermal and mechanical properties of the C₆₀-based fullerene networks.

Organisationseinheit(en)

PhoenixD: Simulation, Fabrikation und Anwendung optischer Systeme
Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik

Typ

Artikel

Journal

CARBON

Band

213

ISSN

0008-6223

Publikationsdatum

09.2023

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Chemie (insg.), Werkstoffwissenschaften (insg.)

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.06209 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2023.118293 (Zugang: Geschlossen)