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Hydrogen Stabilization of {111} Nanodiamond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

A.S. Barnard
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia
N.A. Marks
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia
S.P. Russo
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia
I.K. Snook
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia
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Abstract

Presented here are results of ab initio Density Functional Theory (DFT) structural relaxations performed on dehydrogenated and monohydrogenated nanocrystalline diamond structures of octahedral {111} and cuboctahedral morphologies, up to approximately 2nm in diameter. Our results in this size range show a transition of dehydrogenated nanodiamond clusters into carbon onion-like structures, with preferential exfoliation of the C(111) surfaces, in agreement with experimental observations. However, we have found that this transition may be prevented by hydrogenation of the surfaces. Bonding between atoms in the surface layers of the relaxed structures, and interlayer bonding has been investigated using Wannier functions.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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