Abstract
The structures, cohesive energies and HOMO-LUMO gaps of graphene nanoflakes and corresponding polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for a large variety of size and topology are investigated at the density functional based tight-binding level. Polyacene-like and honeycomb-like graphene nanoflakes were chosen as the topological limit structures. The influence of unsaturated edge atoms and dangling bonds on the stability is discussed. Our survey shows a linear trend for the cohesive energy as function of Ns/N (N - total number of atoms and Ns is number of edge atoms). For the HOMO-LUMO gap the trends are more complex and include also the topology of the edges.
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