Nanoscrolls consist of sheets rolled up into a papyrus-like form. Their open ends produce great radial flexibility, which can be exploited for a large variety of applications, from actuators to hydrogen storage. They have been successfully synthesized from different materials, including carbon and boron nitride. In this work we have investigated, through fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, the dynamics of scroll formation for a series of graphene-like carbon nitride (CN) two-dimensional systems: g-CN, triazine-based (g-C3N4), and heptazine-based (g-C3N4). Carbon nitride (CN) structures have been attracting great attention since their prediction as super hard materials. Recently, graphene-like carbon nitride (g-CN) structures have been synthesized with distinct stoichiometry and morphologies. By combining these unique CN characteristics with the structural properties inherent to nanoscrolls new nanostructures with very attractive mechanical and electronic properties could be formed. Our results show that stable nanoscrolls can be formed for all of CN structures we have investigated here. As the CN sheets have been already synthesized, these new scrolled structures are perfectly feasible and within our present-day technology.
Ultrafast nano-oscillators based on interlayer-bridged carbon nanoscrolls
我们展示了一种可行的方法来制造超快轴向纳米振荡器的基础上碳纳米卷（CNSs）使用分子动力学模拟。由单壁碳纳米管（CNT）引发，单层石墨烯可以连续滚动到CNS中，CNT容纳在CNS中。CNS内部的CNT可以在10 s GHz的固有频率下沿轴向方向振荡。我们证明了一种有效的策略，以减少耗散的CNS为基础的纳米振荡器通过共价桥接的碳层在CNS。我们进一步证明，这种基于CNS的纳米振荡器可以被外部交流电场激励和驱动，并在超过100 GHz的振荡。基于CNS的纳米振荡器不仅提供了通向超快纳米器件的可行途径，而且还有望实现纳米级能量转换、利用和存储（例如，从电动到机械）。
How to form carbon nanoscrolls with the non-uniform curvatures is worthy of a detailed investigation. The first-principles method is suitable in studying the combined effects due to the finite-size confinement, the edge-dependent interactions, the interlayer atomic interactions, the mechanical strains, and the magnetic configurations. The complex mechanisms can induce the unusual essential properties, e.g., the optimal structures, magnetisms, band gaps and energy dispersions. To reach a stable spiral profile, the requirements on the critical nanoribbon width and overlapping length will be thor…
A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study on the Mechanical Properties of a Recently Synthesized Amorphous Carbon Monolayer Converted into a Nanotube/Nanoscroll
University of Brasília（巴西利亚大学）；University of Campinas（坎皮纳斯大学）
Recently, Bafekry et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 130, 114301(2021)] reported their density functional theory (DFT) results on the structural, phonon dispersion, elastic constants and electronic properties of a BCN monolayer. The aforementioned theoretical work however includes erroneous results and discussions, as will be explained in the following.
Due to the noticeable structural similarity and being neighborhood in periodic table of group-IV and -V elemental monolayers, whether the combination of group-IV and -V elements could have stable nanosheet structures with optimistic properties has attracted great research interest. In this work, we performed first-principles simulations to investigate the elastic, vibrational and electronic properties of the carbon nitride (CN) nanosheet in the puckered honeycomb structure with covalent interlayer bonding. It has been demonstrated that the structural stability of CN nanosheet is essentially ma…
Converting solar energy into chemical energy by splitting water is a promising means to generate a sustainable and renewable solution without detrimental environmental impact. The two-dimensional semiconductors serve as potential catalysts in this regard, and here we combine Janus transition-metal dichalcogenides (MoXY, X/Y = S, Se, Te) and graphitic carbon nitride in a van der Waals heterostructure. Within the first-principles calculations, we investigate the electronic, optical and excitonic properties that determine the photocatalytic activity. Due to the internal electric field, the photog…
Creation of defect with predetermined optical, chemical and other characteristics is a powerful tool to enhance the functionalities of materials. Herewith, we utilize density functional theory to understand the microscopic mechanisms of formation of defects in hexagonal boron nitride based on vacancies and substitutional atoms. Through in-depth analysis of the defect-induced band structure and formation energy in varying growth conditions, we uncovered a dominant role of interdefect electron paring in stabilization of defect complexes. The electron reorganization modifies the exchange componen…
We study the carbon dimer defect in a hexagonal boron-nitride monolayer using the GW and Bethe-Salpeter many-body perturbation theories within a finite size cluster approach. While quasiparticle energies converge very slowly with system size due to missing long-range polarization effects, optical excitations converge much faster, with a $1/R^3$ scaling law with respect to cluster average radius. We obtain a luminescence zero-phonon energy of 4.36 eV, including significant 0.13 eV zero-point vibrational energy and 0.15 eV reorganization energy contributions. Inter-layer screening decreases furt…
The supramolecular preorganization approach can be applied to effectively fabricate various morphologies of graphitic carbon nitride(g-CN)with improved photocatalytic activity, while a comprehensive understanding for the morphology evolution from supramolecular aggregates to g-CNs is lacking. Herein, 3D characterizations from electron tomography provide a fundamental insight on the evolution from rod-like melamine-cyanuric acid(MC)complex to hollow-structure g-CN in the thermal polycondensation process. The internal region and a group of surfaces of the rod-like complex initially underwent pol…
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is unique among two-dimensional materials, with a large band gap (~6 eV) and high thermal conductivity (>400 W/m/K), second only to diamond among electrical insulators. Most electronic studies to date have relied on h-BN exfoliated from bulk crystals; however, for scalable applications the material must be synthesized by methods such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Here, we demonstrate single- and few-layer h-BN synthesized by CVD on single crystal platinum and on carbon nanotube (CNT) substrates, also comparing these films with h-BN deposited on the more com…
Pentagonal Monolayer Crystals of Carbon, Boron Nitride, and Silver Azide
在这项研究中，我们提出了一个五角形单层的碳（p-石墨烯），氮化硼（p-B $_{2}$ N $_{4}$和p-B $_{4}$ N $_{2}$）和叠氮化银（p-AgN $_{3}$）的结构，电子和机械性能的理论研究，通过执行国家的最先进的第一性原理计算。我们的总能量计算表明完全由五边形组成的单层晶体结构的形成是可行的。此外，电子能带色散计算表明，虽然p-石墨烯和p-AgN $_{3}$是具有间接带隙的半导体，但p-BN结构显示出金属行为。我们还研究了单轴应变下四种不同五边形结构的力学性能（面内刚度和泊松比）。发现p-石墨烯具有最高的刚度值，并且发现相应的泊松比为负。类似地，p-B $_{2}$ N $_{4}$和p-B $_{4}$ N $_{2}$具有负泊松比值。另一方面，p-AgN $_{3}$具有大的正泊松比。在动力学稳定性测试的基础上计算的声子谱的这些五边形单层，我们发现，只有p-石墨烯和p-B $_{2}$ N $_{4}$是稳定的，但p-AgN $_{3}$和p-B $_{4}$ N $_{2}$是容易受到振动激发。
Hexagonal boron nitride is widely used as a substrate for two-dimensional materials in both electronic and photonic devices. Here, we demonstrate that two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride is also an ideal substrate for one-dimensional single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanotubes directly attached to hexagonal boron nitride show bright photoluminescence with narrow linewidth at room temperature, comparable to air-suspended nanotubes. Using photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy, we unambiguously assign the chiralities of nanotubes on boron nitride by tracking individual tubes before and afte…
Tuning Thermal Conductivity and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Carbon and Boron Nitride Moiré Diamanes via Twist Angle Manipulation
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology（斯科尔科沃科学技术研究所）；Digital Materials LLC（数字材料有限责任公司）；Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS（俄罗斯科学院埃马纽埃尔生物物理化学研究所）
Recent works devoted to the synthesis of artificial molecular systems with quasi-fractal geometry provide new opportunities for the experimental study of electronic properties in atomic systems of fractional dimension. There has been a renewed interest in theoretical studies of transport phenomena in fractal nanosystems. In this work, using calculations based on the density functional theory, molecular dynamics, and the method of non-equilibrium Green functions, we study electronic and thermoelectric properties of a device based on quasi-fractal carbon nitride nanoribbon with Sierpinski triang…
Direct Realization of Near-Ideal Carbyne in Ultrathin Boron Nitride Nanotubes
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology（卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院）；Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin（柏林洪堡大学）；Center for the Science of Materials Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin（柏林材料科学中心）；Politecnico di Milano（米兰理工大学）；Huzhou Normal University（湖州师范学院）
Holey graphyne (HGY) is a recently synthesized two-dimensional semiconducting allotrope of carbon composed of a regular pattern of six and eight-vertex carbon rings. In this study, based on first-principles density functional theory and molecular dynamics simulations, we predict a similar stable porous boron nitride holey graphyne-like structure that we call BN-holey-graphyne (BN-HGY). The dynamical and thermal stability of the structure at room temperature is confirmed by performing calculations of the phonon dispersion relations, and also ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations. BN-HGY stru…
Investigating thermal transport in van der Waals heterostructure is of scientific interest and practical importance for their applications in a broad range. In this work, thermal conductivity of one-dimensional heterostructure consisting of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes is systematically investigated via molecular dynamics simulations. Thermal conductivity is found to have strong dependences on temperature, length and diameter. In addition, the axial strain and intensity of van der Waals interaction are demonstrated to be able to modulate thermal conductivity up to about 43% and 37%, resp…
Organic thermoelectric (TE) materials create a brand new perspective to search for high-efficiency TE materials, due to their small thermal conductivity. The overlap of pz orbitals, commonly existing in organic π-stacking semiconductors, can potentially result in high electronic mobility comparable to inorganic electronics. Here we propose a strategy to utilize the overlap of pz orbitals to increase the TE efficiency of layered polymeric carbon nitride (PCN). Through first-principles calculations and classical molecular dynamics simulations, we find that A-A stacked PCN has unexpectedly high c…
Recently, Bafekry et al. [Appl. Phys. Lett. 120, 189901 (2022)] reported their density functional theory (DFT) results on the elastic constants of C6N7 monolayer. They predicted non-zero elastic constants along the out-of-plane direction for a single-layered material, which contradicts with basic physics of the stiffness tensor for plane stress condition. Moreover, in their work Young's modulus is erroneously calculated. On the basis of DFT calculations, herein we predicted the C11, C12 and C66 of the C6N7 monolayer to be 286, 73 and 107 GPa, respectively, equivalent with an in-plane Youngs mo…
Coherence-Based Identification of Carbon-Based Spin Qubits in Hexagonal Boron Nitride from First Principles
SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University（成均馆大学 SKKU 纳米技术高级研究所）；Department of Quantum Information Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University（成均馆大学量子信息工程系）
Korea Institute of Science and Technology（韩国科学技术院）；University of Science and Technology（科学技术大学）；Korea University（韩国大学）；Kyung Hee University（庆熙大学）；National Institute for Materials Science（材料科学国立研究所）
Tuning Charge Density Wave in the Transition from Magnetically Frustrated Conductor to Ferrimagnetic Insulator in Carbon Nanowire within Boron Nitride Nanotube
