Corrugated layered heptazine-based carbon nitride: the lowest energy modifications of C3N4 ground state
- 17 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Vol. 19 (19), 3013-3019
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b821568e
Abstract
We systematically investigate trends in carbon nitride structures targeting the lowest energy configuration of C3N4. Layered conformations, sp2-bonded, turn out to be more favorable than denser, sp3-bonded, networks. Among layered structures, those comprising the heptazine motif are consistently lower in energy when compared to triazine-based models. Additional decrease of energy is achieved by corrugation of the layers, driven by avoiding repulsive interactions between nitrogen lone-pairs. Consequences of such curvature are for one the necessity to approximate the lowest energy configuration of C3N4 with very large unit cells, as indicated through ab-initio molecular dynamic simulations. Secondly, curvature favors the genesis of confined structures of carbon nitride: the energy difference between “one-dimensional” nanostructures and the layered state is at least smaller for C3N4 than for pure carbon.Keywords
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