Toward an Accurate Estimate of the Exfoliation Energy of Black Phosphorus: A Periodic Quantum Chemical Approach
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2016-01-07
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Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Volume 7, issue 1, pp. 131-136
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The black phosphorus (black-P) crystal is formed of covalently bound layers of phosphorene stacked together by weak van der Waals interactions. An experimental measurement of the exfoliation energy of black-P is not available presently, making theoretical studies the most important source of information for the optimization of phosphorene production. Here, we provide an accurate estimate of the exfoliation energy of black-P on the basis of multilevel quantum chemical calculations, which include the periodic local Moller-Plesset perturbation theory of second order, augmented by higher-order corrections, which are evaluated with finite clusters mimicking the crystal. Very similar results are also obtained by density functional theory with the D3-version of Grirnme's empirical dispersion correction. Our estimate of the exfoliation energy for black-P of -151 meV/atom is substantially larger than that of graphite, suggesting the need for different strategies to generate isolated layers for these two systems.Description
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PLESSET PERTURBATION-THEORY, BASIS-SETS, ELECTRON CORRELATION, COHESIVE ENERGY, GRAPHITE, ADSORPTION, CRYSTALS, SURFACES, GRAPHENE, MOBILITY
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Sansone, G, Maschio, L, Usvyat, D, Schuetz, M & Karttunen, A 2016, ' Toward an Accurate Estimate of the Exfoliation Energy of Black Phosphorus : A Periodic Quantum Chemical Approach ', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 131-136 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02174