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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 17, Pages 4340-4350Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc00292e
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- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [19ZR1404300]
- Innovation Program of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission [15ZZ001]
- NSF [DMR-1410940]
- US Army Research Office [W911NF1810382]
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) [W911NF1810382] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
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The present work exemplifies complementary perspectives offered by the band and bond pictures of solids, with an emphasis on the chemical intuition pertaining to the latter, especially in the presence of interfaces. The modern computational method of constructing a unique set of maximally localized Wannier functions from delocalized band states imparts new interpretations to the familiar concept of chemical bonds in the context of crystalline solids. By bridging the band and bond pictures using advanced computational tools, we reveal for the first time the unusual bond characters of a long-predicted fivefold coordinated structure of binary octet compounds A(N)B(8-N) consisting of AA ' stacked planar AB honeycombs. While the isolated monolayer retains the familiar p(z)-pi bonding in a honeycomb framework as in graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, the bulk foregoes in-plane pi bonding and embraces out-of-plane MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSISA-B-A-BMIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS chain bonding via overlapping p(z) orbitals. Not only does the chemical intuition gained by invoking the bond picture clarify the chemical nature of the fivefold coordination, but it also facilely explains a salient discrepancy in theoretical predictions in otherwise sound ample experimental evidence in the form of epitaxial thin films, paving the way towards rational synthesis of such thin films for optoelectronic applications. On the other hand, we show that the conduction band minimum, important in determining the electrical and optical properties, is a distinctly extended state that can only be properly described within the band picture.
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