Chemistry under high pressure

M Miao, Y Sun, E Zurek, H Lin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Thanks to the development of experimental high-pressure techniques and methods for
crystal-structure prediction based on quantum mechanics, in the past decade, numerous …

Materials discovery at high pressures

L Zhang, Y Wang, J Lv, Y Ma - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Pressure is a fundamental thermodynamic variable that can be used to control the properties
of materials, because it reduces interatomic distances and profoundly modifies electronic …

Route to a superconducting phase above room temperature in electron-doped hydride compounds under high pressure

Y Sun, J Lv, Y **e, H Liu, Y Ma - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
The recent theory-orientated discovery of record high-temperature superconductivity (T c∼
250 K) in sodalitelike clathrate LaH 10 is an important advance toward room-temperature …

Hydrogen clathrate structures in rare earth hydrides at high pressures: possible route to room-temperature superconductivity

F Peng, Y Sun, CJ Pickard, RJ Needs, Q Wu, Y Ma - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-held dream and an area of intensive
research. Recent experimental findings of superconductivity at 200 K in highly compressed …

Potential high-Tc superconducting lanthanum and yttrium hydrides at high pressure

H Liu, II Naumov, R Hoffmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A systematic structure search in the La–H and Y–H systems under pressure reveals some
hydrogen-rich structures with intriguing electronic properties. For example, LaH10 is found …

Solids, liquids, and gases under high pressure

HK Mao, XJ Chen, Y Ding, B Li, L Wang - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Pressure has long been recognized as a fundamental thermodynamic variable but its
application was previously limited by the available pressure vessels and probes. The …

Synthesis and stability of lanthanum superhydrides

ZM Geballe, H Liu, AK Mishra, M Ahart… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recent theoretical calculations predict that megabar pressure stabilizes very hydrogen‐rich
simple compounds having new clathrate‐like structures and remarkable electronic …

How Evolutionary Crystal Structure Prediction Works and Why

AR Oganov, AO Lyakhov, M Valle - Accounts of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Once the crystal structure of a chemical substance is known, many properties can be
predicted reliably and routinely. Therefore if researchers could predict the crystal structure of …

Superconductive sodalite-like clathrate calcium hydride at high pressures

H Wang, JS Tse, K Tanaka… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Hydrogen-rich compounds hold promise as high-temperature superconductors under high
pressures. Recent theoretical hydride structures on achieving high-pressure …

Ab initio random structure searching

CJ Pickard, RJ Needs - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
It is essential to know the arrangement of the atoms in a material in order to compute and
understand its properties. Searching for stable structures of materials using first-principles …