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Carbon nitride frameworks and dense crystalline polymorphs

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Pickard, CJ 
Salamat, A 
Bojdys, MJ 
Needs, RJ 
McMillan, PF 

Abstract

We used ab initio random structure searching (AIRSS) to investigate polymorphism in C3N4 carbon nitride as a function of pressure. Our calculations reveal new framework structures, including a particularly stable chiral polymorph of space group P43212 containing mixed sp2 and sp3-bonding, that we have produced experimentally and recovered to ambient conditions. As pressure is increased a sequence of structures with fully sp3-bonded C atoms and three-fold coordinated N atoms is predicted, culminating in a dense Pnma phase above 250 GPa. Beyond 650 GPa we find that C3N4 becomes unstable to decomposition into diamond and pyrite-structured CN2.

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Keywords

cond-mat.mtrl-sci, cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Journal Title

Physical Review B

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Journal ISSN

2469-9950
2469-9969

Volume Title

94

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J017639/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K014560/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (Grant IDs: EP/J017639/1, EP/G007489/2, EP/K013688/1, EP/K014560/1, EP/L01709/1), Royal Society (Wolfson Research Merit Award), Czech Science Foundation (Junior Grant (CAMs – 16-21151Y)), European Research Council (Starting Grant scheme (BEGMAT – 678462))