TY - JOUR
T1 - Chemical Principles of Topological Semimetals
AU - Schoop, Leslie M.
AU - Pielnhofer, Florian
AU - Lotsch, Bettina V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/5/22
Y1 - 2018/5/22
N2 - Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest additions to the field, the material class of topological semimetals (TSMs), has grown at an extremely fast rate. While the prototype TSM, graphene, has been known for a while, the first 3D analogues of graphene have only been discovered recently. This Review, written from a chemistry perspective, intends to make the growing field of TSMs accessible to the wider community of materials scientists and scholars from related disciplines. To this end, we describe key features of TSMs, embedded in their electronic structure, and how they can be achieved based on chemical principles. We introduce the different classes of TSMs and review their salient representatives. Finally, selected properties and potential applications of these materials are discussed.
AB - Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest additions to the field, the material class of topological semimetals (TSMs), has grown at an extremely fast rate. While the prototype TSM, graphene, has been known for a while, the first 3D analogues of graphene have only been discovered recently. This Review, written from a chemistry perspective, intends to make the growing field of TSMs accessible to the wider community of materials scientists and scholars from related disciplines. To this end, we describe key features of TSMs, embedded in their electronic structure, and how they can be achieved based on chemical principles. We introduce the different classes of TSMs and review their salient representatives. Finally, selected properties and potential applications of these materials are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b05133
DO - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b05133
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85047541649
SN - 0897-4756
VL - 30
SP - 3155
EP - 3176
JO - Chemistry of Materials
JF - Chemistry of Materials
IS - 10
ER -