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TAO-DFT Study on the Electronic Properties of Diamond-Shaped Graphene Nanoflakes.


ABSTRACT: At the nanoscale, it has been rather troublesome to properly explore the properties associated with electronic systems exhibiting a radical nature using traditional electronic structure methods. Graphene nanoflakes, which are graphene nanostructures of different shapes and sizes, are typical examples. Recently, TAO-DFT (i.e., thermally-assisted-occupation density functional theory) has been formulated to tackle such challenging problems. As a result, we adopt TAO-DFT to explore the electronic properties associated with diamond-shaped graphene nanoflakes with n = 2-15 benzenoid rings fused together at each side, designated as n-pyrenes (as they could be expanded from pyrene). For all the n values considered, n-pyrenes are ground-state singlets. With increasing the size of n-pyrene, the singlet-triplet energy gap, vertical ionization potential, and fundamental gap monotonically decrease, while the vertical electron affinity and symmetrized von Neumann entropy (which is a quantitative measure of radical nature) monotonically increase. When n increases, there is a smooth transition from the nonradical character of the smaller n-pyrenes to the increasing polyradical nature of the larger n-pyrenes. Furthermore, the latter is shown to be related to the increasing concentration of active orbitals on the zigzag edges of the larger n-pyrenes.

SUBMITTER: Huang HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7353095 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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TAO-DFT Study on the Electronic Properties of Diamond-Shaped Graphene Nanoflakes.

Huang Hong-Jui HJ   Seenithurai Sonai S   Chai Jeng-Da JD  

Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20200625 6


At the nanoscale, it has been rather troublesome to properly explore the properties associated with electronic systems exhibiting a radical nature using traditional electronic structure methods. Graphene nanoflakes, which are graphene nanostructures of different shapes and sizes, are typical examples. Recently, TAO-DFT (i.e., thermally-assisted-occupation density functional theory) has been formulated to tackle such challenging problems. As a result, we adopt TAO-DFT to explore the electronic pr  ...[more]

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