GaSI: A Wide-Gap Non-centrosymmetric Helical Crystal.

ABSTRACT: The complex non-centrosymmetric and chiral nature of helical structures endow materials that possess such motifs with unusual properties. However, despite their ubiquity in biological and organic systems, there is a severe lack of inorganic crystals that display helicity in extended lattices, where these unusual properties are expected to be most pronounced. Here, we report a new inorganic helical structure, gallium sulfur iodide (GaSI), within the exfoliable class of III-VI-VII (1:1:1) one-dimensional (1D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals. Through detailed structural analyses, including single-crystal X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, and density functional theory (DFT), we elucidate the apparent noncrystallographic screw axis and the first example of an atomic scale helical structure b

SUBMITTER: Dold KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11345776 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature