The phase diagram and hardness of carbon nitrides

作者: Artem R. Oganov , Guang-Rui Qian , Huafeng Dong , Qiang Zhu

DOI: 10.1038/SREP09870

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摘要: Novel superhard materials, especially those with superior thermal and chemical stability, are needed to replace diamond. Carbon nitrides (C-N), which likely possess these characteristics have even been expected be harder than diamond, excellent candidates. Here we report three new thermodynamically stable carbon nitride phases. Based on a systematic evolutionary structure searches, complete phase diagram of the C-N system at 0–300 GPa analyze hardest metastable structures. Surprisingly, find that zero pressure, earlier proposed graphitic-C3N4 () is dynamically unstable, lowest-energy based s-triazine unit s-heptazine unit.

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