A Reinvestigation of a Superhard Tetragonal sp3 Carbon Allotrope

I 4 ¯ –carbon was first proposed by Zhang et al., this paper will report regarding this phase of carbon. The present paper reports the structural and elastic properties of the three-dimensional carbon allotrope I 4 ¯ –carbon using first-principles density functional theory. The related...

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Main Authors: Mengjiang Xing, Binhua Li, Zhengtao Yu, Qi Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-06-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/9/6/484