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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 81, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.155444
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- NSF [DMR-0820518, CNS-0722415, PHY-0547845, CBET-0731319, DMR-0213918]
- AFOSR [FA9550-08-1-0007]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0820518] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We analyze a fundamental building block for monolithic nanoengineering on graphene: the Inverse-Stone-Thrower-Wales (ISTW) defect. The ISTW is formed from a pair of joined pentagonal carbon rings placed between a pair of heptagonal rings; the well-known Stone-Thrower-Wales defect is the same arrangement, but with the heptagonal rather than pentagonal rings joined. When removed and passivated with hydrogen, the structure constitutes a molecule, diazulene, which may be viewed as the result of an ad-dimer defect on anthracene. Embedding diazulene in the honeycomb lattice, we study the effect of ad-dimers on planar graphene. Because the ISTW defect has yet to be experimentally identified, we examine several synthesis routes and find one for which the barrier is only slightly higher than that associated with adatom hopping on graphene. ISTW and STW defects may be viewed as fundamental building blocks for monolithic structures on graphene. We show how to construct extended defect domains on the surface of graphene in the form of blisters, bubbles, and ridges on a length scale as small as 2 angstrom x 7 angstrom. Our primary tool in these studies is density functional theory.
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