Abstract
Intrinsic superconductivity is rarely discovered in sp2-hybridized monolayer carbon allotropes. Here we design a carbon monolayer configured of pentagon, heptagon, and hexagon rings with p2 plane group symmetry. Full-sp2 hybridization is proposed to favor thermal metastability on a low Gibbs free energy. The extremely small thermal expansion coefficient is predicted to the turn negative value to positive with elevating temperature. Carbon polygon structures remain intact at a high thermal temperature of 3,000 K. The high specific surface area is found to approach 2,700 m2/g, with O2-adsorption being advantageous over pristine graphene. We reveal electronic Fermi surfaces mediated by phonon modes of carbon out-of-plane vibrations. By calculating the Eliashberg equation, we evaluate intrinsic superconductivity with a large electron-phonon coupling coefficient. The superconducting transition temperature is estimated to reach 20 K under a high logarithmic average frequency. These first-principles calculations shall stimulate experimentalists' interest in exploring low-dimensional carbon superconductors with gas sensitivity.
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