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Understanding the Structure and Properties of Sesqui-Chalcogenides (i.e., V2VI3 or Pn2Ch3 (Pn = Pnictogen, Ch = Chalcogen) Compounds) from a Bonding Perspective

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العنوان: Understanding the Structure and Properties of Sesqui-Chalcogenides (i.e., V2VI3 or Pn2Ch3 (Pn = Pnictogen, Ch = Chalcogen) Compounds) from a Bonding Perspective
المؤلفون: Cheng, Yudong, Cojocaru-Mirédin, Oana, Keutgen, Jens, Yu, Yuan, Küpers, Michael, Schumacher, Mathias, Golub, Pavlo, Raty, Jean-Yves, Dronskowski, Richard, Wuttig, Matthias
المصدر: Advanced Materials, 1904316 (2019)
بيانات النشر: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: chemical bonding, laser-assisted field evaporation, materials design, sesqui-chalcogenides, Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences, Physics, Physique, chimie, mathématiques & sciences de la terre, Physique
الوصف: Abstract A number of sesqui-chalcogenides show remarkable properties, which make them attractive for applications as thermoelectrics, topological insulators, and phase-change materials. To see if these properties can be related to a special bonding mechanism, seven sesqui-chalcogenides (Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, Bi2S3, Sb2Te3, Sb2Se3, Sb2S3, and β-As2Te3) and GaSe are investigated. Atom probe tomography studies reveal that four of the seven sesqui-chalcogenides (Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, Sb2Te3, and β-As2Te3) show an unconventional bond-breaking mechanism. The same four compounds evidence a remarkable property portfolio in density functional theory calculations including large Born effective charges, high optical dielectric constants, low Debye temperatures and an almost metal-like electrical conductivity. These results are indicative for unconventional bonding leading to physical properties distinctively different from those caused by covalent, metallic, or ionic bonding. The experiments reveal that this bonding mechanism prevails in four sesqui-chalcogenides, characterized by rather short interlayer distances at the van der Waals like gaps, suggestive of significant interlayer coupling. These conclusions are further supported by a subsequent quantum-chemistry-based bonding analysis employing charge partitioning, which reveals that the four sesqui-chalcogenides with unconventional properties are characterized by modest levels of charge transfer and sharing of about one electron between adjacent atoms. Finally, the 3D maps for different properties reveal discernible property trends and enable material design.
نوع الوثيقة: journal article
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
article
اللغة: English
Relation: https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201904316; urn:issn:0935-9648; urn:issn:1521-4095
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201904316
URL الوصول: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/239524
حقوق: open access
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الأكسشن: edsorb.239524
قاعدة البيانات: ORBi