Hydrogenation of Penta-Graphene Leads to Unexpected Large Improvement in Thermal Conductivity
arXiv:1604.03201 · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01536
Abstract
Penta-graphene (PG) has been identified as a novel 2D material with an intrinsic bandgap, which makes it especially promising for electronics applications. In this work, we use first-principles lattice dynamics and iterative solution of the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) to determine the thermal conductivity of PG and its more stable derivative - hydrogenated penta-graphene (HPG). As a comparison, we also studied the effect of hydrogenation on graphene thermal conductivity. In contrast to hydrogenation of graphene, which leads to a dramatic decrease in thermal conductivity (from 3590 to 1328 W/mK - a 63% reduction), HPG shows a notable increase in thermal conductivity (615 W/mK), which is 76% higher than that of PG (350 W/mK). The high thermal conductivity of HPG makes it more thermally conductive than most other semi-conducting 2D materials, such as the transition metal chalcogenides. Our detailed analyses show that the primary reason for the counter-intuitive hydrogenation-induced thermal conductivity enhancement is the weaker bond anharmonicity in HPG than PG. This leads to weaker phonon scattering after hydrogenation, despite the increase in the phonon scattering phase space. The high thermal conductivity of HPG may inspire intensive research around HPG and other derivatives of PG as potential materials for future nanoelectronic devices. The fundamental physics understood from this study may open up a new strategy to engineer thermal transport properties of other 2D materials by controlling bond anharmonicity via functionalization.
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