Related papers: Ternary Antmonides RE2Ir3Sb4 (RE = La, Ce, Pr, Nd)
The diversity of halide materials related to important solar energy systems such as CsPbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) is explored by introducing the transition metal element Fe. In particular a new compound, Cs3Fe2Br9 (space group P6_3/mmc with a =…
Unconventional superconductivity in the Chevrel phase offers a wide structural aspect to understand the superconducting ground state. A detailed investigation on the superconducting properties of Re based pseudobinary telluride Chevrel…
La2Au2Cd and Ce2Au2Cd were prepared from the elements by reactions in sealed tantalum tubes in a water-cooled sample chamber of an induction furnace. These intermetallics crystallize with the tetragonal Mo2FeB2 type, space group P4/mbm.…
Be-B/B-Ta based compounds are very attractive to researchers because of their high density and ultra-hardness. But ternary Be-B-Ta compounds are neither synthesized nor predicted. In this paper, variable composition evolutionary crystal…
Here we report the synthesis of metallic, ultraincompressible (bulk modulus $K_{0}$ = 428(10) GPa) and very hard (nanoindentation hardness 36.7(8) GPa) rhenium (V) nitride pernitride Re$_{2}$(N$_{2}$)N$_{2}$. While the empirical chemical…
TM-doped IrTe2(TM=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) compounds were synthesized by solid state reaction. Single crystal x-ray diffraction experiments indicate that part of the doped TM ions (TM=Fe, Co, and Ni) substitute for Ir, and the rest intercalate into…
Temperature-dependent synchrotron powder diffraction on Cs0.83(Fe0.86Se)2 revealed first order I4/m to I4/mmm structural transformation around 216{\deg}C associated with the disorder of the Fe vacancies. Irreversibility observed during the…
Superconductivity was found for a rhenium boride Re3B at Tc=4.7 K and for ReB2 with Tc in the range from 4.5 to 6.3 K depending on the boron concentrations. Both compounds have the structure different from that of the simple layered…
High quality Rb0.8Fe1.6+xSe2 single crystals are grown by a one step melting growth method. Superconductivity has been observed in all samples with x more than 0.05 and the maximum critical temperature Tc~32 K has been obtained in samples…
Single crystals of a Shastry-Sutherland magnetic semiconductor, BaNd2ZnS5, were synthesized through a high-temperature solution growth technique. Physical properties were characterized by powder and single crystal x-ray diffraction,…
More than thirty years ago, carbon nitrides featuring 3D frameworks of tetrahedral CN4 units were identified as one of the great aspirations of materials science, expected to have a hardness greater than or comparable to diamond. Since…
The actinides, including thorium (Th), are the heaviest observable elements synthesized in the universe, holding clues to the extremes of the astrophysical and nuclear conditions of $r$-process sites. We present Th abundances based on…
The synthesis of ternary acetylides Li2TeC2 and Na2TeC2 is presented as the first example of ternary acetylides with metalloid elements instead of transition metals. The synthesis was carried out by the direct reaction of the corresponding…
We report synthesis, crystal structure and physical properties of a quinary iron-arsenide fluoride KCa$_2$Fe$_4$As$_4$F$_2$. The new compound crystallizes in a body-centered tetragonal lattice (with space group $I4/mmm$, $a$ = 3.8684(2)…
We investigate the novel intermetallic ternary compounds \emph{R}Co$_{9}$Ge$_{4}$ with \emph{R} = La and Ce by means of $X$-ray diffraction, susceptibility and specific heat measurements. CeCo$_{9}$Ge$_{4}$ crystallizes in the space group…
Two iron-chalcogenide superconductors Li(x)[C5H5N](y)Fe(2-z)Se2 and Cs(x)Fe(2-z)Se2 in the as-prepared and annealed state have been investigated by means of the Moessbauer spectroscopy versus temperature. Multi-component spectra are…
The ternary stannide CeRuSn is a static mixed-valent cerium compound with an or-dering of trivalent and intermediate-valent cerium on two distinct crystallographic sites. 119Sn M\"ossbauer spectra showed two electronically almost identical…
Layered van~der~Waals materials of the family TaTMTe$_4$ (TM=Ir, Rh, Ru) are showing very interesting electronic properties. Here we report the synthesis, crystal growth and structural characterization of TaIrTe$_4$, TaRhTe$_4$,…
Large single crystals of La-doped CaFe2As2 were successfully synthesized by the FeAs self-flux method. The x-ray diffraction patterns suggest high crystalline quality and c-axis orientation. By substitution of trivalent La3+ ions for…
Ferromagnetic compound PrRu2Si2 exhibits a giant magnetocrystalline anisotropy of about 400 T. Its ordered moment below Tc=14K reaches 2.7 mB and is parallel to [0 0 1] crystalline direction. We have attributed the magnetism of PrRu2S2 to…