Density functional theory driven phononic thermal conductivity prediction of biphenylene: A comparison with graphene

Abstract: The thermal transport properties of biphenylene network (BPN), a novel sp2 -hybridized two-dimensional allotrope of carbon atoms recently realized in experiments [Fan et al., Science, 372 852-856 (2021)], are studied using the density functional theory-driven solution of the Boltzmann transport equation. The thermal transport in BPN is anisotropic and the obtained thermal conductivities are more than an order of magnitude lower than that in graphene, despite similar sp2-hybridized planar-structure of both allotropes. The lower thermal conductivity in BPN is found to originate from enhanced anharmonicity which in turn is a result of reduced crystal symmetry of BPN.