Optical gap and fundamental gap of oligoynes and carbyne

Carbyne, a linear sp-hybridized carbon allotrope, is synthetically inaccessible and its properties are extrapolated from those of defined oligomers. Here the authors analyze weak optical bands in two series of oligoynes and reassess the optical and fundamental gap of carbyne to lower values than pre...

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Main Authors: Johannes Zirzlmeier, Stephen Schrettl, Jan C. Brauer, Emmanuel Contal, Laurent Vannay, Éric Brémond, Eike Jahnke, Dirk M. Guldi, Clémence Corminboeuf, Rik R. Tykwinski, Holger Frauenrath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18496-4