Term: Tetrahedral sheet

Tetrahedral sheet

A tetrahedral sheet contains continuous two-dimensional corner-sharing coordination tetrahedra involving three corners and the fourth corner pointing in any direction. The tetrahedral sheet generally has a composition of T2O5 (T = Si, Al, Fe3+, Be, B…). After Guggenheim et al. (2006); see also references therein.
Cf., octahedral sheet