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Thermal decomposition of silicon carbide is a promising approach for the fabrication of graphene. However, the atomistic growth mechanism of graphene remains unclear. This paper describes the development of a new charge-transfer interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-13 So Takamoto , Takahiro Yamasaki , Jun Nara , Takahisa Ohno , Chioko Kaneta , Asuka Hatano , Satoshi Izumi

Compared to the widely investigated crystalline polymorphs of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), knowledge about its amorphous state is still limited. With the help of a machine-learning interatomic potential, we conducted large-scale atomistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-29 Jiahui Zhang , Junlei Zhao , Jesper Byggmästar , Erkka J. Frankberg , Antti Kuronen

Through a systematic structural search we found an allotrope of carbon with Cmmm symmetry which we predict to be more stable than graphite for pressures above 10 GPa. This material, which we refer to as Z-carbon, is formed by pure sp3 bonds…

Artificial diamond is created by exposing graphite to pressures on the order of 10\,GPa and temperatures of about 2000\,K. Here, we provide evidence that the pressure exerted by the tip of an atomic force microscope onto graphene over the…

We study the deposition of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films from molecular dynamics simulations based on a machine-learned interatomic potential trained from density-functional theory data. For the first time, the high $sp^3$…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-23 Miguel A. Caro , Volker L. Deringer , Jari Koskinen , Tomi Laurila , Gábor Csányi

Amorphous carbon (a-C) formed under energetic atom deposition and by cooling of a melt by MD simulations in a wide $P,T$-range is investigated. Simulations of a-C formation with atomic beam deposition reveal a sharp GLC-to-DLC transition…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bakai , Yu. Turkin , M. Fateev

Carbon is likely the most fascinating element of the periodic table because of the diversity of its allotropes stemming from its variable (sp, sp2, and sp3) bonding motifs. Exploration of new forms of carbon has been an eternal theme of…

Availability of affordable and widely applicable interatomic potentials is the key needed to unlock the riches of modern materials modelling. Artificial neural network based approaches for generating potentials are promising; however neural…

Four sp3 carbon allotropes with six, eight, and 16 atoms per primitive cell have been derived using a combination of metadynamics simulations and topological scan. A chiral orthorhombic phase oC16 (C2221) was found to be harder than…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-26 Daniele Selli , Igor A. Baburin , Roman Martoňák , Stefano Leoni

We report results of ab initio constant-pressure molecular dynamics simulations of sulfur compression leading to structural transition and pressure-induced amorphization. Starting from the orthorhombic S-I phase composed of S$_8$ ring…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-19 Dušan Plašienka , Roman Martoňák

Two-dimensionally extended amorphous carbon ("amorphous graphene") is a prototype system for disorder in 2D, showing a rich and complex configurational space that is yet to be fully understood. Here we explore the nature of amorphous…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Zakariya El-Machachi , Mark Wilson , Volker L. Deringer

Quasi-continuous structural transformation from the crystalline to amorphous state takes place in graphite during ball-milling. The quantitative characteristics of a short- and a medium-range orders in carbon nanomaterials structure are…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-08 A. D. Rud , I. M. Kirian , A. M. Lakhnik

The energetic evaluations of graphite-to-diamond transition by electron irradiation are performed. The heat conduction problem is solved for the diamond synthesis when a pulse-periodic source of energy is located within a graphite cylinder;…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-03 E. M. Sarkisyan , K. B. Oganesyan , N. Sh. Izmailian , E. A. Ayryan

In this paper we describe a method to generate amorphous structures with arbitrary structural constraints. This method employs the Simulated Annealing algorithm to minimize a simple yet carefully tailored Cost Function (CF). The Cost…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-14 F. H. Jornada , V. Gava , A. L. Martinotto , L. A. Cassol , C. A. Perottoni

We investigate magnetism in amorphous carbon as suggested by the recently reported ferromagnetism in a new form of amorphous carbon. We use spin constrained first-principles simulations to obtain amorphous carbon structures with the desired…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-18 Yuki Sakai , James R. Chelikowsky , Marvin L. Cohen

This study utilises linear-scaling density functional theory (DFT) and develops a new machine-learning potential for carbon and nitrogen (GAP-CN), based on the carbon potential (GAP20), to investigate the interaction between carbon…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Guangzhao Chen , Joseph C. A. Prentice , Jason M. Smith

1. Introduction 2. Molecular dynamics simulation of amorphous carbon structures 3. Atomistic simulation of the bombardment process during the BEN phase of diamond CVD 4. Growth of amorphous silicon 5. One-dimensional hopping in disordered…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Krisztian Kohary

Graphene, the one-atom-thick sp2 hybridized carbon crystal, displays unique electronic, structural and mechanical properties, which promise a large number of interesting applications in diverse high tech fields. Many of these applications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Tommaso Cavallucci , Khatuna Kakhiani , Riccardo Farchioni , Valentina Tozzini

The formation of technologically valuable nanocarbon structures under extreme conditions, such as those produced during high-explosive detonations, remains poorly understood but holds significant potential for the development of controlled…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Xiaoli Yan , Millicent A. Firestone , Murat Keceli , Santanu Chaudhuri , Eliu Huerta

Understanding the atomic-scale structure and dynamics of amorphous oxide surfaces is essential for interpreting their chemical reactivity, mechanical stability, and interfacial behavior, yet direct experimental characterization remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Zheng Yu , Jiayan Xu , Abhirup Patra , Sharan Shetty , Detlef Hohl , Roberto Car