Structural and electronic properties of two-dimensional titanium carbo-oxidesShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: 2D Materials, E-ISSN 2053-1583, Vol. 10, no 1, article id 015019Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This work was inspired by new experimental findings where we discovered a two-dimensional (2D) material comprised of titanium-oxide-based one-dimensional (1D) sub-nanometer filaments. Preliminary results suggest that the 2D material contains considerable amounts of carbon, C, in addition to titanium, Ti, and oxygen, O. The aim of this study is to investigate the low-energy, stable atomic forms of 2D titanium carbo-oxides as a function of C content. Via a combination of first-principles calculations and an effective structure sampling scheme, the stable configurations of C-substitutions are comprehensively searched by templating different 2D TiO2 polymorphs and considering a two O to one C replacement scheme. Among the searched stable configurations, a structure where the (101) planes of anatase bound the top and bottom surfaces with a chemical formula of TiC1/4O3/2 was of particularly low energy. Furthermore, the variations in the electronic band structure and chemical bonding environments caused by the high-content C substitution are investigated via additional calculations using a hybrid exchange-correlation functional.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IOP Publishing Ltd , 2023. Vol. 10, no 1, article id 015019
Keywords [en]
first-principles calculations; electronic structures; crystal structure prediction; titanium oxides
National Category
Materials Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-191186DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aca8b7ISI: 000901677800001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-191186DiVA, id: diva2:1730154
Note
Funding Agencies|Ceramics Program of the Division of Materials Research of the National Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR-2211319]; Drexel University; Murata Corporation of Japan; Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) Foundation; National Science Foundation [2138259, 2138286, 2138307, 2137603, 2138296]
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