Ultraincompressible, superhard materials

MT Yeung, R Mohammadi… - Annual Review of …, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
The search for new ultraincompressible, superhard materials has been performed largely
through trial and error. Despite the difficulties in synthesizing such materials, interest in this …

Ternary Borides Cr2AlB2, Cr3AlB4, and Cr4AlB6: The First Members of the Series (CrB2)nCrAl with n = 1, 2, 3 and a Unifying Concept for Ternary Borides …

M Ade, H Hillebrecht - Inorganic chemistry, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Single crystals of the ternary borides Cr2AlB2, Cr3AlB4, Cr4AlB6, MoAlB, WAlB, Mn2AlB2,
and Fe2AlB2 were grown from the elements with an excess of Al. Structures were refined by …

Ferroelectric oxide surface chemistry: water splitting via pyroelectricity

A Kakekhani, S Ismail-Beigi - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
There is widespread interest in finding sustainable replacements for fossil fuels, and hence
hydrogen production via water splitting has received much attention. However, finding …

Progress in functional studies of transition metal borides

T Ma, P Zhu, X Yu - Chinese Physics B, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, transition metal borides (TMBs) have attracted much attention because they
are considered as potential superhard materials and have more abundant crystal structures …

Metallic superhard CaB12 with novel waffle-like boron backbone

S Han, Y Liu, X Zhang, X Chen, Y Zhang, R Yu, X Liu - Acta Materialia, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Combining features of complex bonding scheme and multifarious structures, metal borides
have received extensive attention as appealing contenders for novel superhard materials …

Vanadium Diboride (VB2) Synthesized at High Pressure: Elastic, Mechanical, Electronic, and Magnetic Properties and Thermal Stability

P Wang, R Kumar, EM Sankaran, X Qi… - Inorganic …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Vanadium diboride (VB2) with an AlB2-type structure has been synthesized at 8 GPa and
1700 K in a D-DIA-type multianvil apparatus. The obtained bulk modulus is B 0= 262 (2) …

Clathrate‐like alkali and alkaline‐earth metal borides: A new family of superconductors with superior hardness

S Han, L Yu, Y Liu, B Zhao, C Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conventional hard and superhard materials, such as diamond and cubic boron nitride, are
attractive for fundamental material science and practical industrial application, but severely …

[HTML][HTML] An unexpectedly stable Y2B5 compound with the fractional stoichiometry under ambient pressure

Y **, W Huang, J Zhang, S Li, S Cheng, W Sun… - Arabian Journal of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Boron-rich yttrium borides are an exceptional group of compounds not only with excellent
mechanical properties, but also with particular superconducting and thermoelectric …

Boron-rich molybdenum boride with unusual short-range vacancy ordering, anisotropic hardness, and superconductivity

H Tang, X Gao, J Zhang, B Gao, W Zhou… - Chemistry of …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Determination of the structures of materials involving more light elements such as boron-rich
compounds is challenging and technically important in understanding their varied …

Variable-composition structural optimization and experimental verification of MnB 3 and MnB 4

H Niu, XQ Chen, W Ren, Q Zhu, AR Oganov… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In combination with variable-composition evolutionary algorithm calculations and first-
principles calculations, we have systematically searched for all the stable compounds and …