Metalloids are sometimes called semimetals, a practice that has been discouraged as the term "semimetal" has a different meaning in physics than in chemistry.
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Physically, they are shiny, brittle solids with intermediate to relatively good electrical conductivity and the electronic band structure of asemimetalor semiconductor.
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In physics, asemimetalis an element or a compound in which the valence band marginally (rather than substantially) overlaps the conduction band.
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Like a metal, the conductivity of graphite in the direction of its planes decreases as the temperature is raised; it has the electronic band structure of asemimetal.
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With nanowire arrays, it is possible to exploitsemimetal-semiconductor transition due to the quantum confinement and use materials that normally would not be good thermoelectric materials in bulk form.
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