Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 82, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.134126
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50821001]
- 973 Program of China [2005CB724400, 2011CB808205]
- Postdoctoral Fund of China [20090460685]
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A body-centered tetragonal carbon (bct-carbon) allotrope has been predicted to be a transparent carbon polymorph obtained under pressure. The structural transition pathways from graphite to diamond, M-carbon, and bct-carbon are simulated and the lowest activation barrier is found for the graphite-bct transition. Furthermore, bct-carbon has a higher shear strength than diamond due to its perpendicular graphenelike structure. Our results provide a possible explanation for the formation of a transparent carbon allotrope via the cold compression of graphite. We also verify that this allotrope is hard enough to crack diamond.
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