Clathrates represent a fascinating class of inorganic materials with a unique structural motif:
3D framework with large polyhedral cages encapsulating guest ions. Weak electrostatic …

Recent experimental and theoretical work has demonstrated significant potential to tune the
properties of silicon and germanium by adjusting the mesostructure, nanostructure, and/or …

Silicon exhibits a large variety of different bulk phases, allotropes, and composite structures,
such as, eg, clathrates or nanostructures, at both higher and lower densities compared with …

Silicon materials play a key role in many technologically relevant fields, ranging from the
electronic to the photovoltaic industry. A systematic search for silicon allotropes was …

Silicon carbide is a hard, semiconducting material presenting many polytypes, whose
behavior under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature has attracted large interest …

Physical properties, such as stability, electronic properties, hole effective mass, electron
effective mass, mechanical properties, structural properties, and optical properties of P6 …

The history of scientific research on diverse ice structures dates back to more than a century.
To date, 20 three-dimensional crystalline ice phases (ice I-ice XX) have been identified in …

Polymorphism offers rich and virtually unexplored space for discovering novel functional
materials. To harness this potential approaches capable of both exploring the space of …

The guest‐free, type‐II Si clathrate (Si136) is an open cage polymorph of Si with structural
features amenable to electrochemical Li storage. However, the detailed mechanism for …

Recent studies on type-II Si/Ge clathrates for photovoltaic (PV) applications are reviewed.
The band-gap energies (E g) experimentally estimated for Si and Ge clathrates are …