Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 29, Issue 8, Pages 3663-3670Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00464
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- Royal Society
- EPSRC [EP/M009580/1, EP/L015862/1, EP/L000202]
- ERC [277757]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- XSEDE Grant [AC-1053575]
- EPSRC [EP/M009580/1, EP/L000202/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1490458, EP/M009580/1, EP/L000202/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The archetypal silica- and aluminosilicate-based zeolite-type materials are renowned for wide-ranging applications in heterogeneous catalysis, gas-separation and ion-exchange. Their compositional space can be expanded to include nanoporous metal chalcogenides, exemplified by germanium and tin sulfides and selenides. By comparison with the properties of bulk metal dichalcogenides and their 2D derivatives, these open-framework analogues may be viewed as three-dimensional semiconductors filled with nanometer voids. Applications exist in a range of molecule size and shape discriminating devices. However, what is the electronic structure of nanoporous metal chalcogenides? Herein, materials modeling is used to describe the properties of a homologous series of nanoporous metal chalcogenides denoted np-MX2, where M = Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, and X = O, S, Se, Te, with Sodalite, LTA and aluminum chromium phosphate-1 structure types. Depending on the choice of metal and anion their properties can be tuned from insulators to semiconductors to metals with additional modification achieved through doping, solid solutions, and inclusion (with fullerene, quantum dots, and hole transport materials). These systems form the basis of a new branch of semiconductor nanochemistry in three dimensions.
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