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Recently, the electride materials, with excess anionic electrons confined in their empty space, have received a growing attention due to their promising applications in catalysis, nonlinear optics and spin-electronics. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-06 Byungkyun Kang , Qiang Zhu

Electrides have valence electrons that occupy free space in the crystal structure, making them easier to extract. This feature can be used in catalysis for important reactions that usually requires a high-temperature and high-pressure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-27 Cuicui Wang , Miaoting Xu , Keith T. Butler , Lee A. Burton

Electrides are an emerging class of materials with highly-localized electrons in the interstices of a crystal that behave as anions. The presence of these unusual interstitial quasi-atom (ISQ) electrons leads to interesting physical and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-16 L. Zhang , Q. Wu , S. Li , Y. Sun , X. Yan , Y. Chen , Hua Y. Geng

The discovery of high-dielectric materials is crucial to increasing the efficiency of electronic devices and batteries. Here, we report three previously unexplored materials with very high dielectric constants (69 $<$ $\epsilon$ $<$ 101)…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-11 Abhijith Gopakumar , Koushik Pal , Chris Wolverton

Electrides are materials in which some of the electrons are localized at the interstitial sites rather than around the atoms or along atomic bonds. Most elemental electrides are either alkali metals or alkaline-earth metals because of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-03 Salma Ahmed , Felipe González-Cataldo , Victor Naden Robinson , Burkhard Militzer

Large-scale computational surveys are increasingly used to map the landscape of stable crystalline materials. We report a high-throughput energy screening of inorganic crystals that enumerates binary and ternary compositions up to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Abhijith S Parackal , Florian Trybel , Felix Andreas Faber , Rickard Armiento

Two dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as promising functional materials with many applications such as semiconductors and photovoltaics because of their unique optoelectronic properties. While several thousand 2D materials have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-18 Yuqi Song , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Yong Zhao , Jianjun Hu

Exploratory synthesis in novel chemical spaces is the essence of solid-state chemistry. However, uncharted chemical spaces can be difficult to navigate, especially when materials synthesis is challenging. Nitrides represent one such space,…

Materials discovery is a computationally intensive process that requires exploring vast chemical spaces to identify promising candidates with desirable properties. In this work, we propose using quantum-enhanced machine learning algorithms…

Developing new metal hydrides is a critical step toward efficient hydrogen storage in carbon-neutral energy systems. However, existing materials databases, such as the Materials Project, contain a limited number of well-characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiyuan Liu , Christian Hacker , Shengnian Wang , Yuhua Duan

Topological electronic materials are new quantum states of matter hosting novel linear responses in the bulk and anomalous gapless states at the boundary, and are for scientific and applied reasons under intensive research in physics and in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Tiantian Zhang , Yi Jiang , Zhida Song , He Huang , Yuqing He , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Chen Fang

Chalcogenides, which refer to chalcogen anions, have attracted considerable attention in multiple fields of applications, such as optoelectronics, thermoelectrics, transparent contacts, and thin film transistors. In comparison to oxide…

We search for novel two-dimensional materials that can be easily exfoliated from their parent compounds. Starting from 108423 unique, experimentally known three-dimensional compounds we identify a subset of 5619 that appear layered…

High-entropy alloys are solid solutions of multiple principal elements, capable of reaching composition and feature regimes inaccessible for dilute materials. Discovering those with valuable properties, however, relies on serendipity, as…

Crystal-graph attention networks have emerged recently as remarkable tools for the prediction of thermodynamic stability and materials properties from unrelaxed crystal structures. Previous networks trained on two million materials…

Transition metal chromophores with earth-abundant transition metals are an important design target for their applications in lighting and non-toxic bioimaging, but their design is challenged by the scarcity of complexes that simultaneously…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Chenru Duan , Aditya Nandy , Gianmarco Terrones , David W. Kastner , Heather J. Kulik

The complete band representations (BRs) have been constructed in the work of topological quantum chemistry. Each BR is expressed by either a localized orbital at a Wyckoff site in real space, or by a set of irreducible representations in…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-21 Jiacheng Gao , Yuting Qian , Huaxian Jia , Zhaopeng Guo , Zhong Fang , Miao Liu , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

Finding new collective electronic states in materials is one of the fundamental goals of condensed matter physics. Atomic-scale superlattices formed from transition metal oxides are a particularly appealing hunting ground for new physics.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-16 Jak Chakhalian , John W. Freeland , Andrew J. Millis , Christos Panagopoulos , James M. Rondinelli

The discovery of novel high-temperature superconductor materials holds transformative potential for a wide array of technological applications. However, the combinatorially vast chemical and configurational search space poses a significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-25 Xiaoyang Wang , Chengqian Zhang , Zhenyu Wang , Hanyu Liu , Jian Lv , Han Wang , Weinan E , Yanming Ma

The exploration of electrides holds great promise for advancing both fundamental physics and chemistry, owing to their unique characteristics arising from loosely bound interstitial anionic electrons. Here we report a class of cross-chain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-12 Da-Bao Zha , Peng Jiang , Yan-Ling Li , Hai-Qing Lin