000867919 001__ 867919 000867919 005__ 20210130003943.0 000867919 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1002/adma.201904316 000867919 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a0935-9648 000867919 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a1521-4095 000867919 0247_ $$2Handle$$a2128/23653 000867919 0247_ $$2pmid$$apmid:31489721 000867919 0247_ $$2WOS$$aWOS:000485747200001 000867919 0247_ $$2altmetric$$aaltmetric:73119725 000867919 037__ $$aFZJ-2019-06517 000867919 082__ $$a660 000867919 1001_ $$aCheng, Yudong$$b0 000867919 245__ $$aUnderstanding the Structure and Properties of Sesqui‐Chalcogenides (i.e., V 2 VI 3 or Pn 2 Ch 3 (Pn = Pnictogen, Ch = Chalcogen) Compounds) from a Bonding Perspective 000867919 260__ $$aWeinheim$$bWiley-VCH$$c2019 000867919 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 000867919 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 000867919 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article$$bjournal$$mjournal$$s1576588486_32085 000867919 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000867919 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 000867919 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 000867919 520__ $$aA number of sesqui‐chalcogenides show remarkable properties, which make them attractive for applications as thermoelectrics, topological insulators, and phase‐change materials. To see if these properties can be related to a special bonding mechanism, seven sesqui‐chalcogenides (Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, Bi2S3, Sb2Te3, Sb2Se3, Sb2S3, and β‐As2Te3) and GaSe are investigated. Atom probe tomography studies reveal that four of the seven sesqui‐chalcogenides (Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, Sb2Te3, and β‐As2Te3) show an unconventional bond‐breaking mechanism. The same four compounds evidence a remarkable property portfolio in density functional theory calculations including large Born effective charges, high optical dielectric constants, low Debye temperatures and an almost metal‐like electrical conductivity. These results are indicative for unconventional bonding leading to physical properties distinctively different from those caused by covalent, metallic, or ionic bonding. The experiments reveal that this bonding mechanism prevails in four sesqui‐chalcogenides, characterized by rather short interlayer distances at the van der Waals like gaps, suggestive of significant interlayer coupling. These conclusions are further supported by a subsequent quantum‐chemistry‐based bonding analysis employing charge partitioning, which reveals that the four sesqui‐chalcogenides with unconventional properties are characterized by modest levels of charge transfer and sharing of about one electron between adjacent atoms. 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