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Topology and Chemistry: From solid state chemistry to Catalysis
Topology, a mathematical concept, recently became a hot and truly transdisciplinary topic in condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry and materials science. All 200 000 inorganic materials were recently classified into trivial and topological materials: topological insulators, Dirac, Weyl and nodal-line semimetals, and topological metals [1]. The direct connection between real space: atoms, valence electrons, bonds and orbitals, and reciprocal space: bands and Fermi surfaces allows for a simple classification of topological materials in a single particle picture. Around 20% of all inorganic compounds host topological bands, which opens also an infinitive play-ground for chemistry [2]. A fingerprint of topological materials is an unusual surfaces state, which can impact catalysis. We discuss examples of topological catalysis: hydrogen evolution and oxygen evolution reaction [3].
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- Topological Quantum Materials from the Viewpoint of Chemistry, Nitesh Kumar, Satya N. Guin, Kaustuv Manna, Chandra Shekhar, and Claudia Felser, doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00732
- Topological States on the Gold Surface, B. Yan, et al., Nature Com. 6 (2015) 10167 Heterogeneous catalysis at the surface of topological materials, Guowei Li and Claudia Felser, Applied Physical Letter 116 (2020) 070501, Effect of magnetic field on the hydrogen evolution activity using non-magnetic Weyl semimetal catalysts, C. R. Rajamathi, et al., Dalton Trans. 49 (2020) 3398. Topological engineering of Pt-group metal based chiral crystals toward high-efficiency hydrogen evolution catalysts, Qun Yang, et al., Advanced Materials 32 (2020) 1908518, Tunable eg orbital occupancy in Heusler compounds for oxygen evolution reaction, . Yu, et al,, Angewandte Chemie (2021) online, Surface states and spin polarization in topological semimetal Co3Sn2S2 bulk single crystal for water oxidation, G. Li, Science Advances 5 (2019) eaaw9867.
Hosted by Professor Weiwei Xie
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