density functional theory ,(dft) calculations have been performed to investigate the properties ofcarbon decorated (c-decorated) models of boron nitride (bn) nanocones. to this aim, the apex andtip of nanocone have been substituted by the carbon atoms to represent the c-decorated models. theresults indicated that dipole moments and energy gaps could reveal the effects of c-decorations onthe pro...

Eric Clar’s qualitative ideas for benzenoids are described in application to various novel nanostructures: graphene, edges in graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanocones, and carbon nanotori. The specially singled out most highly aromatic species with Clar structures consisting entirely of aromatic sextets are proposed to be termed “claromatic”. Several such claromatic nanostructures are ident...

a fullerene graph is a 3−connected planar graph whose faces are pentagons and hexagons.the clar number of a fullerene is the maximum size of sextet patterns, the sets of disjointhexagons which are all m-alternating for a kekulé structure m of f. an exact formula of clarnumber of some fullerene graphs and a class of carbon nanocones are obtained in this paper.

Large area patterned boron nanocones with low turn-on electric field of 2.8 V microm(-1) and low threshold electric field of 3.8 V microm(-1) were synthesized by a pre-manipulation to pattern the catalyst with a grid template as mask. The good field emission performance of patterned boron nanocones arise from the decreased screening effect and a favorable orientation of the nanocones. These res...

Large-scale production of conical carbon nanostructures is possible through pyrolysis of hydrocarbons in a plasma torch process. The resulting carbon cones occur in five distinctly different forms, and disc-shaped particles are produced as well. The structure and properties of these carbon cones and discs have been relatively little explored until now. Here we characterize the structure of thes...

The investigation of surface morphology using atomic force microscope has shown self-organizing of the nanocones on the surface of CdZnTe crystal after irradiation by strongly absorbed Nd:YAG laser irradiation at an intensity of 12.0 MW/cm2. The formation of nanocones is explained by the presence of a thermogradient effect in the semiconductor. The appearance of a new exciton band has been obse...

We apply first-principles calculations to study the electronic structure of boron nitride nanocones with disclinations of different angles θ = nπ/3. Nanocones with odd values of n present antiphase boundaries that cause a reduction of the work function of the nanocones, relative to the bulk BN value, by as much as 2 eV. In contrast, nanocones with even values of n do not have such defects and p...