Penta-graphene

Cairo pentagonal tiling
Top view (top) and side view (bottom) of penta-graphane. Yellow and blue spheres show two types of carbon atoms, while red balls correspond to hydrogens.[1]

Penta-graphene is a carbon allotrope composed entirely of carbon pentagons and resembling the Cairo pentagonal tiling.[2] Penta-graphene was proposed in 2014 on the basis of analyses and simulations.[2] Further calculations showed that it is unstable in its pure form,[3] but can be stabilized by hydrogenation.[1] Owing to its atomic configuration, penta-graphene has an unusually negative Poisson’s ratio and very high ideal strength believed to exceed that of a similar material, graphene.[2]

Penta-graphene contains both sp2 and sp3 hybridized carbon atoms. Contrary to graphene, which is a good conductor of electricity, penta-graphene is an insulator with an indirect band gap of 4.1–4.3 eV. Its hydrogenated form is called penta-graphane. It has a diamond-like structure with sp3 and no sp2 bonds, and therefore a wider band gap (ca. 5.8 eV) than penta-graphene.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Einollahzadeh, Hamideh; Fazeli, Seyed Mahdi; Dariani, Reza Sabet (2016). "Studying the electronic and phononic structure of penta-graphane". Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 17 (1): 610–617. arXiv:1511.06850Freely accessible. doi:10.1080/14686996.2016.1219970. PMC 5102001Freely accessible. PMID 27877907.
  2. 1 2 3 Zhang, S.; Zhou, J.; Wang, Q.; Chen, X.; Kawazoe, Y.; Jena, P. (2015). "Penta-graphene: A new carbon allotrope". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (8): 201416591. doi:10.1073/pnas.1416591112.
  3. ↑ Ewels, Christopher P.; Rocquefelte, Xavier; Kroto, Harold W.; Rayson, Mark J.; Briddon, Patrick R.; Heggie, Malcolm I. (2015). "Predicting experimentally stable allotropes: Instability of penta-graphene". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 201520402. doi:10.1073/pnas.1520402112.
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