Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-10-12
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2, 2702 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Accepted by the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Scientific paper
10.1021/jz2012534
Carbon nanorings are hoop-shaped, {\pi}-conjugated macrocycles which form the fundamental annular segments of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). In a very recent report, the structures of chiral carbon nanorings (which may serve as chemical templates for synthesizing chiral nanotubes) were experimentally synthesized and characterized for the first time. Here, in our communication, we show that the excited-state properties of these unique chiral nanorings exhibit anomalous and extremely interesting optoelectronic properties, with excitation energies growing larger as a function of size (in contradiction with typical quantum confinement effects). While the first electronic excitation in armchair nanorings is forbidden with a weak oscillator strength, we find that the same excitation in chiral nanorings is allowed due to a strong geometric symmetry breaking. Most importantly, among all the possible nanorings synthesized in this fashion, we show that only one ring, corresponding to a SWNT with chiral indices (n+3,n+1), is extremely special with large photoinduced transitions that are most readily observable in spectroscopic experiments.
Lee Jonathan W.
Wong Bryan M.
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