Abstract
A 2×2×1 superstructure of the P63/mmc NiAs structure is reported in which kagome nets are stabilized in the octahedral transition metal layers of the compounds Ni0.7Pd0.2Bi, Ni0.6Pt0.4Bi, and Mn0.99Pd0.01Bi. The ordered vacancies that yield the true hexagonal kagome motif lead to filling of trigonal bipyramidal interstitial sites with the transition metal in this family of "kagome-NiAs" type materials. Further ordering of vacancies within these interstitial layers can be compositionally driven to simultaneously yield kagome-connected layers and a net polarization along the c axes in Ni0.9Bi and Ni0.79Pd0.08Bi, which adopt Fmm2 symmetry. The polar and non-polar materials exhibit different electronic transport behaviour, reflecting the tuneability of both structure and properties within the NiAs-type bismuthide materials family.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e202403670 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Angewandte Chemie International Edition |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 23 |
| Early online date | 12 Mar 2024 |
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| Publication status | Published - 3 Jun 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Supplementary files include crystallographic information files for each of the five structures. The Supporting Information file contains details of the crystal structures of the five new materials reported here, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy data, DFT calculations, magnetization data, electronic transport data, and heat capacity data measured from the compounds reported here.Deposition Numbers https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structures?id=doi:10.1002/anie.202403670 2298182 (for Ni0.6Pt0.4Bi), 2298183 (for Ni0.7Pd0.2Bi), 2298184 (for Mn0.99Pd0.01Bi), 2298185 (for Ni0.9Bi), 2298186 (for Ni0.79Pd0.08Bi) contain the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper. These data are provided free of charge by the joint Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/structures Access Structures service.
Underlying data collected as part of this work is available at the University of Liverpool data repository at https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2470.
Data Availability Statement
The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in University of Liverpool Data Repository at https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2470, reference number 2470.Funding
We acknowledge funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under EP/V026887. For first-principles calculations, this work used the Cirrus HPC resource run by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh, and the national HPC resource, Archer2
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | EP/V026887 |
Keywords
- Kagome
- NiAs
- intermetallics
- Polar metal