1-Dimensional inorganic double helices as candidates for information storage materials

Alkali metal monopnictides contain one-dimensional chains with a double-helical structure. In this work, we report about their possible use as information storage materials. We investigated computationally fundamental properties of hetero- and homocationic systems and ways towards the application. It was shown, that the phosphorous backbone is capable of stabilising cationic chains of different composition and thus allows encoding of information.