Tunable Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Graphene-Embedded Transition Metal-N4 Complexes: Insight From First-Principles Calculations

Chemistry, an Asian Journal
Xinrui CaoWei Hu

Abstract

Motivated by the development of transition-metal-nitrogen-carbon (TM-N-C) materials for catalysts and molecular electronics, we investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of TMN4 -graphene materials with different central atoms (TM=Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni and Cu) and different concentrations. The first-principles results show that a widely tunable magnetic moment in the range from 0 to 4 μB can be obtained in this kind of material by varying the central TM atom, and a regular transition of the electronic property from metallic to half-metallic and to semiconducting characteristics is observed in MnN4 -graphene upon changing the concentration. We find that the peculiar relationship between the electronic characteristics of graphene and its lattice parameters plays a decisive role in determining the electronic and magnetic properties. Our findings are useful for the design of TM-N-C materials for catalysis, spintronics, and molectronics.

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