Controlling the bonding and band gaps of solid carbon monoxide with pressure |
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Authors: | Sun Jian Klug Dennis D Pickard Chris J Needs Richard J |
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Institution: | Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany. jian.sun@theochem.rub.de |
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Abstract: | We use a combination of a searching method and first-principles electronic structure calculations to predict novel structures of carbon monoxide (CO) which are energetically more stable than the known structures. The most stable forms of CO at zero pressure consist of metallic polycarbonyl chains with single and double bonds, rather than the familiar triply bonded insulating CO molecules. At pressures >2 GPa the most stable phases are semiconducting and insulating singly bonded three-dimensional framework and layered structures. We also find a molecular Pbcm structure which is more stable than the R3c structure proposed previously for the observed ? phase. |
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