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The enhancement of magnetism and the occurrence of phase transition in Fe doped g-C3N4 nanoribbons

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Two-dimensional graphene-like materials have numerous pores, large surface areas, and other excellent properties. And two-dimensional graphene-like materials have great potential in magnetic and spintronic devices. In this paper, we intercepted a fraction of g-C3N4 and prepared it into nanoribbons. We have calculated the g-C3N4 nanoribbons by studying the electronic structure of g-C3N4 nanoribbons to determine whether they can be used as spintronic and magnetic memory devices. Because the g-C3N4 nanoribbons have a narrow band gap and more overlapping wave functions, to turn the performance of the g-C3N4 nanoribbons, it was decided to dope transition metal Fe atoms. Subsequently, we found that the doped g-C3N4 nanoribbons with Fe atoms undergo a phase transition, from semiconducting property to half-metallic property, and the magnetic property of the g-C3N4 nanoribbons is enhanced by doped Fe atoms, so the performance of the g-C3N4 nanoribbons was improved.

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This research was funded by the Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Program (Public Welfare Science and Technology Research) (No. 2019GGX103010), Liaocheng Key Research and Development Program (Policy guidance category) (No. 2022YDSF90), Science and Technology Planning Project of Higher School in Shandong Province (No. J18KA243), and Liaocheng University High-level Talents & Ph.D. Research Startup Foundation (No. 318051619).

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    Zhihao Wang, Dong Fan, Hengshuai Li, Haiquan Hu, Feng Guo, Zhenbao Feng, Dong Zhang, Xiaocheng Hu, Maoye Yin, Minghui Zhu & Zhi Li

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ZW: validation, formal analysis, data curation, writing—original draft. XJ: data curation, methodology. DF: formal analysis, resources. HL: writing- reviewing and editing, funding acquisition, methodology. XP: funding acquisition, resources. HH: supervision. FG: software, validation. ZF and JL: software. MY, MZ: validation. DZ, ZL and XH: resources.

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Wang, Z., Jiang, X., Fan, D. et al. The enhancement of magnetism and the occurrence of phase transition in Fe doped g-C3N4 nanoribbons. Eur. Phys. J. B 96, 145 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-023-00607-x

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