Electronic properties of two-dimensional nanocarbons formed by truxene-like building blocks

Davi Bezerra Bastos, Eduardo Costa Girão, Vincent Meunier, Paloma Vieira Silva

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Abstract

Nanocarbons obtained from well-known molecular precursors can provide nanostructures with a diversity of electronic behaviors. In addition to an array of theoretical results, experimental studies have motivated developments in the field with the growth of quantum dots with nontrivial configurations of nonhexagonal rings. For example, a truxene (Trx) molecular unit can display either a sp3-carbon-containing configuration or a full-sp2 variation. The sp3 case has a large gap between its frontier states, unlike the sp2 counterpart, which has unpaired electrons. Here, we use computational simulations to propose a set of Trx-based 2D nanocarbons with electronic properties dictated by the anchoring points of the block-to-block connections. The interplay between Trx's molecular levels and details of the 2D lattices results in systems ranging from metals to wide-gap semiconductors. This versatility is rationalized in terms of π bonds formed through unpaired electrons from sequential Trxs, as verified with the aid of a graph-theoretical analysis.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number113622
JournalComputational Materials Science
Volume249
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 5 2025

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science
  • General Chemistry
  • General Materials Science
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Computational Mathematics

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