Slicing Diamond for More sp³ Group 14 Allotropes Ranging from Direct Bandgaps to Poor Metals

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Fässler, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry with Focus on New Materials at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and Prof. Dr. Antti J. Karttunen, Aalto University, Finland. The image shows the basic idea of the computational study mainly deriving novel silicon structures by simply using reconstructed atoms slabs derived from slices of silicon with its standard diamond structure. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/cphc.201700290.