The Nature of Bonding in Bulk Tellurium Composed of One Dimensional Helical Chainsopen access
- Authors
- Yi, Seho; Zhu, Zhili; Cai, Xiaolin; Jia, Yu; Cho, Jun Hyung
- Issue Date
- May-2018
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Citation
- INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, v.57, no.9, pp.5083 - 5088
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- Volume
- 57
- Number
- 9
- Start Page
- 5083
- End Page
- 5088
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/150118
- DOI
- 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03244
- ISSN
- 0020-1669
- Abstract
- Bulk tellurium (Te) is composed of one-dimensional (1D) helical chains which have been considered to be coupled by van der Waals (vdW) interactions. However, on the basis of first-principles density functional theory calculations, we here propose a different bonding nature between neighboring chains: i.e., helical chains made of normal covalent bonds are connected together by coordinate covalent bonds. It is revealed that the lone pairs of electrons of Te atoms participate in forming coordinate covalent bonds between neighboring chains, where each Te atom behaves as both an electron donor to neighboring chains and an electron acceptor from neighboring chains. This ligand-metal-like bonding nature in bulk Te results in the same order of bulk moduli along the directions parallel and perpendicular to the chains, contrasting with the large anisotropy of bulk moduli in vdW crystals. We further find that the electron effective masses parallel and perpendicular to the chains are almost the same as each other, consistent with the observed nearly isotropic electrical resistivity. It is thus demonstrated that the normal/coordinate covalent bonds parallel/perpendicular to the chains in bulk Te lead to a minor anisotropy in structural and transport properties.
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