A new family of sp3-hybridized carbon phasesProject supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11174242, 11204265, 11404278, 11147007, and 11274151), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No. BK2012248), and the Scientific Research Foundation of Yancheng Institute of Technology, China (Grant No. KJC2014024)

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 mod...

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Published in:Chinese physics B 2015-12, Vol.25 (1)
Main Authors: Xu, Ning, Li, Jian-Fu, Huang, Bo-Long, Wang, Bao-Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
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low-temperature phase transformation
superhard carbon phase
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1674-1056
DOI:10.1088/1674-1056/25/1/016103