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Intrinsic Defects, Fluctuations of the Local Shape, and the Photo-Oxidation of Black Phosphorus
Shows that intrinsic structural defects in black phosphorus act as sites for photo-oxidation by dramatically lowering the energy barrier for oxygen bonding (from over 10 eV in pristine material down to 1.6–6.8 eV at defect sites), making the material vulnerable to degradation under ordinary visible and UV light. The local geometry of defects is characterised using discrete differential geometry.
BibTeX
@article{photo-oxidation-black-phosphorus,
title = {Intrinsic Defects, Fluctuations of the Local Shape, and the Photo-Oxidation of Black Phosphorus},
author = {K. L. Utt and P. Rivero and M. Mehboudi and E. O. Harriss and M. F. Borunda and A. A. P. SanJuan and S. Barraza-Lopez},
journal = {ACS Central Science},
year = {2015},
volume = {1},
number = {6},
pages = {320--327},
doi = {10.1021/acscentsci.5b00244},
}