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Symmetry-based computational search for novel binary and ternary 2D materials
Wang, Hai-Chen; Schmidt, Jonathan; Marques, Miguel A. L. et al.
2023In 2D Mater., 10 (3), p. 035007
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Abstract :
[en] We present a symmetry-based systematic approach to explore the structural and compositional richness of two-dimensional materials. We use a 'combinatorial engine' that constructs candidate compounds by occupying all possible Wyckoff positions for a certain space group with combinations of chemical elements. These combinations are restricted by imposing charge neutrality and the Pauling test for electronegativities. The structures are then pre-optimized with a specially crafted universal neural-network force-field, before a final step of geometry optimization using density-functional theory is performed. In this way we unveil an unprecedented variety of two-dimensional materials, covering the whole periodic table in more than 30 different stoichiometries of form A_nB_m or A_nB_mC_k. Among the discovered structures, we find examples that can be built by decorating nearly all Platonic and Archimedean tessellations as well as their dual Laves or Catalan tilings. We also obtain a rich, and unexpected, polymorphism for some specific compounds. We further accelerate the exploration of the chemical space of two-dimensional materials by employing machine-learning-accelerated prototype search, based on the structural types discovered in the systematic search. In total, we obtain around 6500 compounds, not present in previous available databases of 2D materials, with a distance to the convex hull of thermodynamic stability smaller than 250 meV/atom.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Wang, Hai-Chen
Schmidt, Jonathan
Marques, Miguel A. L.
WIRTZ, Ludger ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPHYMS)
Romero, Aldo H.
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Symmetry-based computational search for novel binary and ternary 2D materials
Publication date :
2023
Journal title :
2D Mater.
ISSN :
2053-1583
Publisher :
IOP Publishing
Volume :
10
Issue :
3
Pages :
035007
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Physics and Materials Science
FnR Project :
FNR15627293 - Magneto-optical Properties Of 2d Materials, 2021 (04/01/2022-30/05/2023) - Ludger Wirtz
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