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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…
Novel ultra-hard carbon allotrope is proposed with mechanical, dynamic, and thermal properties like diamond. Based on energy criteria from computations within density functional theory DFT, tetragonal C8 stoichiometry is identified as a…
Two mechanisms of changes from 2D to 3D (D = dimensionality) involving 2D C(sp2) trigonal paving to C(sp3) tetrahedral stacking are proposed through puckering of the 2D layers on one hand and interlayer insertion of extra C on the other…
Based on C8, carbon 4C, with cfc topology, two hybrid carbon allotropes generated by inserting C(sp2) and C(sp1) carbon atoms into C8 diamond-like lattice were identified and labeled ene-C10 containing C(sp2) and ene-yne-C14 containing…
Novel high symmetry body centered carbon allotropes: cubic C48 and tetragonal C32 are proposed with respective original ana and ukc topologies. Devised from crystal structure engineering, their ground state structures and energy derived…
Superstructures of cubic and hexagonal diamonds (h- and c-diamond) comprising a family of stable diamond-like $sp^3$ hybridized novel carbon allotropes are proposed, which are referred to as U$_n$-carbon where $n \geq 2$ denotes the number…
Novel extended networks of C8, Si8 and silicon carbide Si4C4 are proposed based on crystal chemistry rationale and optimized structures to ground state energies and derived physical properties within the density functional theory (DFT). The…
An original mechanism is proposed for a pressure-induced transformation of orthorhombic C12 from ground state normal pressure (NP) sp2/sp3 allotrope to ultra-dense and ultra-hard HP sp3 form. Upon volume decrease, the trigonal C=C parallel…
Original carbon allotropes, orthorhombic C8, C10, C12 and C14 presenting mixed sp2 and sp3 carbon hybridizations exhibiting ethene like and propadiene like embedded units are proposed from crystal chemistry and calculations within the…
Based on crystal chemistry considerations and quantum density functional theory ground state calculations, rhombohedral rh-C3 and hexagonal h-C6 carbon allotropes are proposed and energetically calculated as new stable ultra-hard phases…
From crystal chemistry rationale and density functional DFT calculations, novel tetragonal carbon C5 is proposed as simplest ultrahard allotrope with mixed hybrid carbon hybridizations (sp2 - sp3). Novel pentacarbon is identified as…
Super-hard C5 with lon topology (lon: Lonsdaleite hexagonal diamond) and characterized by the presence of sp3 and sp2 -like carbon sites is devised from crystal chemistry and used as template matrix structure for identifying original…
Using a generalized genetic algorithm, we propose four new sp3 carbon allotropes with 5-6-7 (5-6-7-type Z-ACA and Z-CACB) or 4-6-8(4-6-8-type Z4-A3B1 and A4-A2B2) carbon rings. Their stability, mechanical and electronic properties are…
This study comprehensively characterizes, with suggested applications, a novel two-dimensional carbon allotrope, C$_{16}$, using Density Functional Theory and machine learning-based molecular dynamics. This nanomaterial is derived from…
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…
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,…
We report a general scheme to systematically construct two classes of structural families of superhard sp3 carbon allotropes of cold compressed graphite through the topological analysis of odd 5+7 or even 4+8 membered carbon rings stemmed…
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…
The lon topology inherent to lonsdaleite C4 hexagonal diamond is shown to characterize three original carbon allotropes C8 in the orthorhombic system with irregular orientations of the C4 tetrahedra. The octacarbon stoichiometries were…
Novel cubic allotrope yne-C$_{16}$ with sp$^3$/sp$^1$ carbon hybridizations is devised based on crystal chemistry and computations of the ground structure and the energy-dependent quantities within the quantum density functional theory DFT.…