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Theoretical Study on Structural Stability of Alloy Cages: A Case of Silicon-Doped Heterofullerenes

Xiaofeng Fan, Zexuan Zhu, Lei Liu, Zexiang Shen & Jer-Lai Kuo

Commun. Comput. Phys., 8 (2010), pp. 289-303.

Published online: 2010-08

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Structural stability and Si-substitution pattern in fullerene cage of C60−nSiare thoroughly investigated by integrating density functional calculations with a colorbond graph (CBG) model. We find that the parameterized CBG model with genetic algorithms can efficiently scan the large configuration space of alloy and therefore identify the low-energy region within the first-principles accuracy. Low-energy (stable) structures of C60−nSin in carbon-rich region (1≤n≤30) were identified and the silicon atoms are found to tend to aggregate in the fullerene cage. The mixing energy of these low-energy structures is ∼ 35 meV/atom and insensitive to the Si concentration. We expect that these alloy fullerene cages can be synthesized experimentally at elevated temperatures.

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Structural stability and Si-substitution pattern in fullerene cage of C60−nSiare thoroughly investigated by integrating density functional calculations with a colorbond graph (CBG) model. We find that the parameterized CBG model with genetic algorithms can efficiently scan the large configuration space of alloy and therefore identify the low-energy region within the first-principles accuracy. Low-energy (stable) structures of C60−nSin in carbon-rich region (1≤n≤30) were identified and the silicon atoms are found to tend to aggregate in the fullerene cage. The mixing energy of these low-energy structures is ∼ 35 meV/atom and insensitive to the Si concentration. We expect that these alloy fullerene cages can be synthesized experimentally at elevated temperatures.

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Structural stability and Si-substitution pattern in fullerene cage of C60−nSiare thoroughly investigated by integrating density functional calculations with a colorbond graph (CBG) model. We find that the parameterized CBG model with genetic algorithms can efficiently scan the large configuration space of alloy and therefore identify the low-energy region within the first-principles accuracy. Low-energy (stable) structures of C60−nSin in carbon-rich region (1≤n≤30) were identified and the silicon atoms are found to tend to aggregate in the fullerene cage. The mixing energy of these low-energy structures is ∼ 35 meV/atom and insensitive to the Si concentration. We expect that these alloy fullerene cages can be synthesized experimentally at elevated temperatures.

Xiaofeng Fan, Zexuan Zhu, Lei Liu, Zexiang Shen & Jer-Lai Kuo. (2020). Theoretical Study on Structural Stability of Alloy Cages: A Case of Silicon-Doped Heterofullerenes. Communications in Computational Physics. 8 (2). 289-303. doi:10.4208/cicp.101209.260110a
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