Theoretical Study on Structural Stability of Alloy Cages: A Case of Silicon-Doped Heterofullerenes

Theoretical Study on Structural Stability of Alloy Cages: A Case of Silicon-Doped Heterofullerenes

Year:    2010

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 8 (2010), Iss. 2 : pp. 289–303

Abstract

Structural stability and Si-substitution pattern in fullerene cage of C60−nSiare thoroughly investigated by integrating density functional calculations with a colorbond graph (CBG) model. We find that the parameterized CBG model with genetic algorithms can efficiently scan the large configuration space of alloy and therefore identify the low-energy region within the first-principles accuracy. Low-energy (stable) structures of C60−nSin in carbon-rich region (1≤n≤30) were identified and the silicon atoms are found to tend to aggregate in the fullerene cage. The mixing energy of these low-energy structures is ∼ 35 meV/atom and insensitive to the Si concentration. We expect that these alloy fullerene cages can be synthesized experimentally at elevated temperatures.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.101209.260110a

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 8 (2010), Iss. 2 : pp. 289–303

Published online:    2010-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    15

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