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    Tetrahedral Amorphous Boron Nitride: A Hard Material
    (Wiley, 2019-09-25) Durandurdu, Murat
    We generate a tetrahedrally coordinated amorphous boron nitride (BN) model by means of first principles molecular dynamics calculations and report its mechanical and electrical properties in detail. The amorphous configuration is almost free from chemical disorder and consists of about 20% coordination defects, similar to tetrahedral (diamond-like) amorphous carbon. Its theoretical band gap energy is about 2.0 eV, less than 4.85 eV estimated for cubic BN. The bulk modulus and Vickers hardness of tetrahedral amorphous BN are computed as 206 GPa and 28-35 GPa, respectively. Based on these findings, we propose that tetrahedral noncrystalline BN can serve as electronic and hard materials as well.
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    Hydrogenated Amorphous Boron Nitride: A First Principles Study
    (Elsevier, 2018-12) Uchoyuk, Tevhide Ayca; Durandurdu, Murat
    The influence of hydrogenation on the atomic structure and electronic properties of amorphous boron nitride (alpha-BN) is investigated by using an ab-initio molecular dynamics technique. The structural evaluation of alpha-BN and the hydrogenated (alpha-BN:H) models with four different hydrogen concentrations reveals that although their short-range order is mainly similar to each other, hydrogenation yields some noticeable amendments on the local structure of alpha-BN. Hydrogenation suppresses the formation of twofold coordinated chain-like structures and tetragonal-like rings and leads to more sp(2) and even sp(3) hybridizations. It is also observed that the formation of N-H bonding is more favorable than that of the B-H bonding in the alpha-BN:H configurations. Furthermore hydrogenation is found to have an insignificant impact on the electronic structure of alpha-BN.
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    Hexagonal Nanosheets in Amorphous BN: A First Principles Study
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2015-11) Durandurdu, Murat
    Amorphous boron nitrite is modeled by means of first principles molecular dynamics simulations and found to be almost chemically ordered in a stark contrast to the previous predictions. Its average coordination number is 2.97. The main building unit of the amorphous network is hexagonal rings as in the most stable boron nitrite phase but chain-like structures and tetragonal-like rings also exist in amorphous network. The model consists of partially hexagonal nanosheets and hence it is not entirely disordered. Amorphous boron nitrite has a band gap energy of about 2.0 eV. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Hard Boron Rich Boron Nitride Nanoglasses
    (Wiley, 2017-12-21) Cetin, Aysegul O.; Durandurdu, Murat
    Boron-rich amorphous boron nitride (BxN1-x, 0.55x0.95) alloys are generated by means of abinitio molecular dynamics simulations and their local structure, mechanical properties and electronic structure are exposed. BN:B phase separations are perceived in all amorphous networks, suggesting that these materials can serve as nanoglass ceramics. The sp(2) hybridization is the main building unit in the BN-rich regions for low boron concentrations, and the models carry locally the signature of the two-dimensional hexagonal BN structure. The amorphous states having both sp(2) and sp(3) hybridizations form for boron contents between 70% and 80%. At higher boron concentrations, sp(3) hybridization with a fraction of similar to 90%-98% is detected as seen in the cubic or wurtize BN crystals. In the boron rich regions, the ideal and defective pentagonal pyramids emerge at 60% boron content, and the first complete B-12 molecule develops at 70% boron concentration. In addition to the B-12 icosahedron, the formation of a cage-like B-16 molecule is, for the first time, discovered in some amorphous alloys. The isolated B-16 molecule is, however, found to be unstable. The Vickers harness calculations reveal that some of these amorphous alloys can serve as hard materials. When their electron properties are considered, all amorphous materials are predicted to be semiconducting.