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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 81, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.073408
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- CNPq
- FAPEMIG
- Rede de Pesquisa em Nanotubos de Carbono
- INCT de Nanomateriais de Carbono
- Instituto do Milenio em Nanotecnologia-MCT
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First principles calculations, employed to address the properties of polycrystalline graphene, indicate that the electronic structure of tilt grain boundaries in this system displays a rather complex evolution toward graphene bulk, as the tilt angle decreases, with the generation of a Dirac point, at the Fermi level, that lies not on the usual graphene Brillouin zone K point, and an anisotropic Dirac cone of low-energy excitations. Moreover, the usual K-point Dirac cone falls below the Fermi level, and rises toward it as the tilt angle decreases. Further, our calculations indicate that the grain-boundary formation energy behaves nonmonotonically with the tilt angle, due to a change in the spatial distribution and relative contributions of the bond-stretching and bond-bending deformations associated with the formation of the defect.
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