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New carbon forms exhibiting extraordinary physico-chemical properties can be generated from nanostructured precursors under extreme pressure. Nevertheless, synthesis of such fascinating materials is often not well understood that results,…

Carbon is one of the most intriguing elements in the Periodic Table. It forms many allotropes, some being known from ancient times (diamond and graphite) and some discovered ten to twenty years ago (fullerenes, nanotubes). Quite…

While crystalline two-dimensional materials have become an experimental reality during the past few years, an amorphous 2-D material has not been reported before. Here, using electron irradiation we create an sp2-hybridized one-atom-thick…

Structural and mechanical properties of amorphous and nanocomposite carbon are investigated using tight-binding molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. In the case of amorphous carbon, we show that the variation of sp^3 fraction as…

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…

We report the discovery of a pristine crystalline 3D carbon that is magnetic, electrically conductive and stable under ambient conditions. This carbon material, which has remained elusive for decades, is synthesized by using the chemical…

Tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations shed light into the fracture mechanisms and the ideal strength of tetrahedral amorphous carbon and of nanocomposite carbon containing diamond crystallites, two of the hardest materials. It is…

Carbon at extreme conditions is the focus of intensive scientific inquiry due to its importance for applications in inertial confinement fusion experiments and for understanding the interior structure of carbon-rich exoplanets. The extreme…

In a recent Letter, Fujii et. al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 016001] predicted a new carbon allotrope, pentadiamond, with remarkable mechanical properties: elastic moduli comparable or larger than diamond, and negative Poisson's ratio $\mu$ =…

A structurally stable crystalline carbon allotrope is predicted by means of the first-principles calculations. This allotrope can be derived by substituting each atom in diamond with a carbon tetrahedron, and possesses the same space group…

A novel carbon allotrope, hexagonal C12, is proposed from crystal chemistry and quantum density functional theory DFT calculations of ground state and physical properties. The structure exhibits corner sharing distorted tetrahedra with the…

By using molecular dynamics simulation, formation mechanisms of amorphous carbon in particular sp${}^3$ rich structure was researched. The problem that reactive empirical bond order potential cannot represent amorphous carbon properly was…

A metallic covalently bonded carbon allotrope is predicted via first principles calculations. It is composed of an $sp^3$ carbon framework that acts as a diamond anvil cell by constraining the distance between parallel cis-polyacetylene…

In this review, we present our recent computational work on carbon-based nanostructured composites. These materials consist of carbon crystallites embedded in an amorphous carbon matrix and are modeled here through classical and…

The energy landscape of carbon is exceedingly complex, hosting diverse and important metastable phases, including diamond, fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene. Searching for structures, especially those with large unit cells, in this…

Carbon has numerous one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three-dimensional (3D) allotropic structures. The study of carbon materials has been a major focus of material science and condensed matter physics. Previous studies have…

In this paper, we offer large and realistic models of amorphous carbon spanning densities from 0.95 g/cm3 to 3.5 g/cm3 . The models are designed to agree as closely as possible with experimental diffraction data while simultaneously…

We have investigated the structural, mechanical and electronic properties of D-carbon by ab initio calculations, a new phase of crystalline sp3 carbon (pace group D2h5, Pmma-orthorhombic). Total-energy calculations demonstrate that D-carbon…

Boron is a unique element, being the only element, all known polymorphs of which are superhard, and all of its crystal structures are distinct from any other element. The electron-deficient bonding in boron explains its remarkable…

Carbon enjoys a vast number of allotropic forms, each possessing unique properties determined by the lattice structures and bonding characters. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we propose a new three-dimensional carbon…