As for the elements of the carbon group, optimization of s-p hybridization was found to be the common bonding principle for the metallic triel elements. The figure shows how in a section of the fcc band structure of Al the interaction of the s with a p band gives rise to a stabilizing pseudo-gap at the Fermi level.
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