• 文献标题:   Structural motifs in oxidized graphene: A genetic algorithm study based on density functional theory
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XIANG HJ, WEI SH, GONG XG
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Fudan Univ
  • 被引频次:   59
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.82.035416
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

The structural and electronic properties of oxidized graphene are investigated on the basis of the genetic algorithm and density functional theory calculations. We find two new low-energy semiconducting phases of the fully oxidized graphene (C(1)O). In one phase, there is parallel epoxy pair chains running along the zigzag direction. In contrast, the ground-state phase with a slightly lower energy and a much larger band gap contains epoxy groups in three different ways: normal epoxy, unzipped epoxy, and epoxy pair. Interestingly, the C(1)O phase with the epoxy pair model has a lower conduction-band minimum than the Dirac point of graphene. For partially oxidized graphene, a phase separation between bare graphene and fully oxidized graphene is predicted.