Single-crystal nickel-based cathodes: fundamentals and recent advances

S Lu, L Tang, H Wei, Y Huang, C Yan, Z He, Y Li… - Electrochemical Energy …, 2022 - Springer
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) represent the most promising choice for meeting the ever-
growing demand of society for various electric applications, such as electric transportation …

Beyond structural motifs: the frontier of actinide-containing metal–organic frameworks

CR Martin, GA Leith, NB Shustova - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In this perspective, we feature recent advances in the field of actinide-containing metal–
organic frameworks (An-MOFs) with a main focus on their electronic, catalytic …

Crystal structure and magnetism of actinide oxides: A review

BK Rai, A Bretaña, G Morrison… - Reports on Progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The consequences of 5f electrons in the actinide elements are as interesting as they are
complex, with actinide systems displaying dual nature of 5f states (itinerant-localized) …

Advances in chalcogenide crystal growth: flux and solution syntheses, and approaches for postsynthetic modifications

AA Berseneva, HC zur Loye - Crystal Growth & Design, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chalcogenide-containing materials are important for the semiconductor and thermoelectric
industries and are up-and-coming materials for superconductors, catalysis, and battery …

Utilizing ionic liquids as bifunctional reagents for the ionothermal synthesis of uranyl compounds

DE Felton, TA Kohlgruber, ZD Tucker… - Crystal Growth & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The extraction of actinides, specifically uranyl and other actinyl ions, from fission products is
a critical aspect of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing. In this study, ionothermal syntheses were …

Lanthanide thioborates, an emerging class of nonlinear optical materials, efficiently synthesized using the boron–chalcogen mixture method

LS Breton, G Morrison, MR Lacroix… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The Boron–Chalcogen Mixture method was used to obtain single crystals of the previously
extremely difficult to synthesize lanthanide orthothioborates to investigate their structures …

“Soft” alkali bromide and iodide fluxes for crystal growth

VV Klepov, CA Juillerat, KA Pace, G Morrison… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this review we discuss general trends in the use of alkali bromide and iodide (ABI) fluxes
for exploratory crystal growth. The ABI fluxes are ionic solution fluxes at moderate to high …

Transuranium Sulfide via the Boron Chalcogen Mixture Method and Reversible Water Uptake in the NaCuTS3 Family

AA Berseneva, VV Klepov, K Pal, K Seeley… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The behavior of 5f electrons in soft ligand environments makes actinides, and especially
transuranium chalcogenides, an intriguing class of materials for fundamental studies. Due to …

Magnetic anisotropy and anomalous Hall effect in monoclinic single crystal

ZZ Jiang, X Luo, J Yan, JJ Gao, W Wang, GC Zhao… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Layered magnetic materials with nontrivial spin configurations usually emerge novel
magnetic and transport properties. Herein, we investigate the anisotropy of magnetic …

Molten alkali halide flux growth of an extensive family of noncentrosymmetric rare earth sulfides: structure and magnetic and optical (SHG) properties

M Usman, MD Smith, G Morrison, VV Klepov… - Inorganic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Twenty new alkali rare earth thiosilicates and thiogermanates with the general formula
ALnTS4 (A= alkali metal, Ln= lanthanide, and T= Si, Ge) were grown as X-ray diffraction …