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Ab initio engineering of materials with stacked hexagonal tin frameworks
The group-IV tin has been hypothesized to possess intriguing electronic properties in an atom-thick hexagonal form. An attractive pathway of producing sizable 2D crystallites of tin is based on deintercalation of bulk compounds with suitable tin frameworks. Here, we have identified a new synthesizab...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27387140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28369 |
Sumario: | The group-IV tin has been hypothesized to possess intriguing electronic properties in an atom-thick hexagonal form. An attractive pathway of producing sizable 2D crystallites of tin is based on deintercalation of bulk compounds with suitable tin frameworks. Here, we have identified a new synthesizable metal distannide, NaSn(2), with a 3D stacking of flat hexagonal layers and examined a known compound, BaSn(2), with buckled hexagonal layers. Our ab initio results illustrate that despite being an exception to the 8-electron rule, NaSn(2) should form under pressures easily achievable in multi-anvil cells and remain (meta)stable under ambient conditions. Based on calculated Z(2) invariants, the predicted NaSn(2) may display topologically non-trivial behavior and the known BaSn(2) could be a strong topological insulator. |
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