Conspectus The lone pair has been a known feature of the electronic structure of molecules
for over 100 years. Beginning with the pioneering work of Lewis and others that was later …

Pyrochlores belong to a numerous family of crystalline materials with a rich variety of
technologically important functional properties and developed structural diversity of possible …

Metal–insulator transition (MIT) compounds are materials that may exhibit metallic or
insulating behavior, depending on the physical conditions, and are of immense fundamental …

Achieving highly active, stable and low cost oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts is a
significant challenge for promoting splitting water technology in acidic media. Herein, we …

The process of least-squares analysis has been applied for decades in the field of
crystallography. Here, we discuss the application of this process to total scattering data …

A pyrochlore lattice is a three-dimensional network of corner-sharing tetrahedra. Crystals
with a pyrochlore lattice formed from the atoms of a transition metal give rise to a rich variety …

Large-bandgap and high-dielectric 2D dielectrics are crucial for transistor performance
because they maximize gate-to-channel capacitive coupling, yet such high-quality materials …

Manipulating thermal properties of materials can be interpreted as the control of how
vibrations of atoms (known as phonons) scatter in a crystal lattice. Compared to a perfect …

The aqueous hydration structure of the Bi3+ ion is probed using a combination of extended
X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) …

Epitaxial heterostructures composed of complex correlated metal oxides, grown along
specific crystallographic orientations, offer a route to investigating emergent phenomena …