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Hf 3 Te 2 : A New and Remarkable Layered Compound
Author(s) -
Abdon Robert L.,
Hughbanks Timothy
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199423281
Subject(s) - hafnium , tellurium , van der waals force , telluride , metal , chalcogen , spheres , yield (engineering) , crystallography , materials science , chemical physics , chemistry , molecule , zirconium , physics , metallurgy , organic chemistry , astronomy
The synthesis of metal‐rich compounds can still yield fundamentally new compounds! Strongly metallic Hf 3 Te 2 , the first reduced hafnium telluride, is prepared from the elements. Its surprisingly simple, layered structure is formally related to that of body‐centered cubic (bcc) metal and contains three layers of hafnium in a bcc‐like arrangement sandwiched between double layers of tellurium. These slabs are held together by van der Waals interactions. (In the picture dark spheres represent Hf and light spheres Te.)