TY - JOUR

T1 - Structural, electronic, thermal and mechanical properties of C60-based fullerene two-dimensional networks explored by first-principles and machine learning

AU - Mortazavi, Bohayra

N1 - Funding Information: The author appreciates the funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (EXC 2122, Project ID 390833453). The author is greatly thankful to the VEGAS cluster at Bauhaus University of Weimar for providing the computational resources. The author gratefully acknowledges the computing time granted by the Resource Allocation Board and provided on the supercomputer Lise and Emmy at NHR@ZIB and NHR@Göttingen as part of the NHR infrastructure.

PY - 2023/9

Y1 - 2023/9

N2 - Recent experimental reports on the realizations of two-dimensional (2D) networks of the C60-based fullerenes with anisotropic and nanoporous lattices represent a significant advance, and create exciting prospects for the development of a new class of nanomaterials. In this work, we employed theoretical calculations to explore novel C60-based fullerene lattices and subsequently evaluate their stability and key physical properties. After the energy minimization of extensive structures, we could detect novel 2D, 1D and porous carbon C60-based networks, with close energies to that of the isolated C60 cage. Density functional theory results confirm that the C60-based networks can exhibit remarkable thermal stability, and depending on their atomic structure show metallic, semimetallic or semiconducting electronic nature. Using the machine learning interatomic potentials, thermal and mechanical responses of the predicted nanoporous 2D lattices were investigated. The estimated thermal conductivity of the quasi-hexagonal-phase of C60 fullerene is shown to be in an excellent agreement with the experimental measurements. Despite of different atomic structures, the anisotropic room temperature lattice thermal conductivity of the fullerene nanosheets are estimated to be in the order of 10 W/mK. Unlike the majority of carbon-based 2D materials, C60-based counterparts noticeably are predicted to show positive thermal expansion coefficients. Porous carbon C60-based networks are found to exhibit superior mechanical properties, with tensile strengths and elastic modulus reaching extraordinary values of 50 and 300 GPa, respectively. The theoretical results presented in this work provide a comprehensive vision on the structural, energetic, electronic, thermal and mechanical properties of the C60-based fullerene networks.

AB - Recent experimental reports on the realizations of two-dimensional (2D) networks of the C60-based fullerenes with anisotropic and nanoporous lattices represent a significant advance, and create exciting prospects for the development of a new class of nanomaterials. In this work, we employed theoretical calculations to explore novel C60-based fullerene lattices and subsequently evaluate their stability and key physical properties. After the energy minimization of extensive structures, we could detect novel 2D, 1D and porous carbon C60-based networks, with close energies to that of the isolated C60 cage. Density functional theory results confirm that the C60-based networks can exhibit remarkable thermal stability, and depending on their atomic structure show metallic, semimetallic or semiconducting electronic nature. Using the machine learning interatomic potentials, thermal and mechanical responses of the predicted nanoporous 2D lattices were investigated. The estimated thermal conductivity of the quasi-hexagonal-phase of C60 fullerene is shown to be in an excellent agreement with the experimental measurements. Despite of different atomic structures, the anisotropic room temperature lattice thermal conductivity of the fullerene nanosheets are estimated to be in the order of 10 W/mK. Unlike the majority of carbon-based 2D materials, C60-based counterparts noticeably are predicted to show positive thermal expansion coefficients. Porous carbon C60-based networks are found to exhibit superior mechanical properties, with tensile strengths and elastic modulus reaching extraordinary values of 50 and 300 GPa, respectively. The theoretical results presented in this work provide a comprehensive vision on the structural, energetic, electronic, thermal and mechanical properties of the C60-based fullerene networks.

KW - 2D carbon

KW - Electronic

KW - First-principles

KW - Fullerene

KW - Machine learning potentials

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U2 - 10.48550/arXiv.2307.06209

DO - 10.48550/arXiv.2307.06209

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85164282798

VL - 213

JO - CARBON

JF - CARBON

SN - 0008-6223

M1 - 118293

ER -