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This animation was made within the scope of the PhD thesis of Carl-Friedrich Schön at the I.Institute of Physics (1A) at RWTH Aachen University, supervised by Professor Matthias Wuttig.

  • For the general use of this application: Please cite Carl-Friedrich Schön and the URL of this website:

    materials-map.rwth-aachen.de

  • The coordinates of this map (Electrons Transferred/Electrons Shared) are described by Raty et al.:

    A Quantum-Mechanical Map for Bonding and Properties in Solids (2018).

  • The relevance of bond breaking is discussed by Zhu et al .:

    Unique Bond Breaking in Crystalline Phase Change Materials and the Quest for Metavalent Bonding (2018)

  • The color scheme of the datapoints and the definition of crucial properties originate from Wuttig et al.:

    Incipent Metals: Functional Materials with a Unique Bonding Mechanism (2018)

  • A universal review of metavalent bonding discussing all aforementioned points was published by Bart J. Kooi and Matthias Wuttig:

    Chalcogenides by Design: Functionality Through Metavalent Bonding and Confinement (2020)

  • The coordinates of the Van Arkel-Ketelaar triangle are described in A.E. van Arkel: Molecules and crystals (1949) and JAA Ketelaar: Chemical Constitution (1958).
  • The coordinates of the Littlewood map are described by P.B. Littlewood The crystal structure of IV-VI compounds. II. A microscopic model for cubic/rhombohedral materials (1980) and by Lencer et al.: A map for phase-change materials (2008)

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