Vol. 7, №2, 2015

NANOSYSTEMS

PENTA-GRAPHENE: A NEW CARBON ALLOTROPE
^1,2,3Shunhong Zhang, ³Jian Zhou, ^1,2,3Qian Wang, ^4,5Xiaoshuang Chen, ⁶Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, ³Puru Jena
¹Center for Applied Physics and Technology, College of Engineering
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
²Collaborative Innovation Center of Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, Ministry of Education
Beijing 100871, China
³Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284 USA
⁴National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai 200083, China
⁵Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
⁶Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
qianwang2@pku.edu.cn

Received 15.11.2015

Abstract. A 2D metastable carbon allotrope, penta-graphene, composed entirely of carbon pentagons and resembling the Cairo pentagonal tiling, is proposed. State-of-the-art theoretical calculations confirm that the new carbon polymorph is not only dynamically and mechanically stable, but also can withstand temperatures as high as 1000 K. Due to its unique atomic configuration, penta-graphene has an unusual negative Poisson’s ratio and ultrahigh ideal strength that can even outperform graphene. Furthermore, unlike graphene that needs to be functionalized for opening a band gap, penta-graphene possesses an intrinsic quasi-direct band gap as large as 3.25 eV, close to that of ZnO and GaN. Equally important, penta-graphene can be exfoliated from T12-carbon. When rolled up, it can form pentagon-based nanotubes which are semiconducting, regardless of their chirality. When stacked in different patterns, stable 3D twin structures of T12-carbon are generated with band gaps even larger than that of T12-carbon. The versatility of penta-graphene and its derivatives are expected to have broad applications in nanoelectronics and nanomechanics.

Keywords: carbon allotrope, carbon pentagon, stability, negative Poisson’s ratio, electronic structure

PACS: 51.05.ue

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RENSIT, 2015, 7(2):191-207 DOI: 10.17725/rensit.2015.07.191

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