A new family of sp3-hybridized carbon phases

Ning Xu; Jian Fu Li; Bolong Huang; Bao Lin Wang

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/1/016103

A new family of sp³-hybridized carbon phases

Ning Xu
, Jian Fu Li
, Bolong Huang
, Bao Lin Wang

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Abstract

A new family of superhard carbon allotropes C48(2i + 1) is constructed by alternating even 4 and 8 membered rings. These new carbon allotropes are of a spatially antisymmetrical structure, compared with the symmetrical structures of bct-C4, Z-carbon, and P-carbon. Our calculations show that bulk moduli of C48(2i + 1) are larger than that of c-BN and smaller than that of cubic-diamond. C48(2i + 1) are transparent superhard materials possessing large Vicker hardness comparable to diamond. This work can help us understand the structural phase transformations of cold-compression graphite and carbon nanotubes.

Original language	English
Article number	016103
Journal	Chinese Physics B
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1056/25/1/016103
Publication status	Published - 8 Dec 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

low-temperature phase transformation
superhard carbon phase

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Physics and Astronomy

More information

10.1088/1674-1056/25/1/016103

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