The Relative Thermodynamic Stability of Diamond and Graphite.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 60(3): 1546-1549, 2021 Jan 18.
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ABSTRACT
Recent density-functional theory (DFT) calculations raised the possibility that diamond could be degenerate with graphite at very low temperatures. Through high-accuracy calorimetric experiments closing gaps in available data, we reinvestigate the relative thermodynamic stability of diamond and graphite. For T<400â
K, graphite is always more stable than diamond at ambient pressure. At low temperatures, the stability is enthalpically driven, and entropy terms add to the stability at higher temperatures. We also carried out DFT calculations B86bPBE-25X-XDM//B86bPBE-XDM and PBE0-XDM//PBE-XDM results overlap with the experimental -TΔS results and bracket the experimental values of ΔH and ΔG, displaced by only about 2× the experimental uncertainty. Revised values of the standard thermodynamic functions for diamond are Δf Ho =-2150±150â
J mol-1 , Δf So =3.44±0.03â
J K-1 mol-1 and Δf Go =-3170±150â
J mol-1 .
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