Experimental Testing of the Theoretically Predicted Magnetic Properties for Kagomé Compounds in the Li-Fe-Ge System.

Investigating material properties is essential to assessing their application potential. While computational methods allow for a fast prediction of the material structure and properties, experimental validation is essential to determining the ultimate material potential. Herein, we report the synthesis and experimental magnetic properties of three previously reported Kagome compounds in the Li-Fe-Ge system.

When van der Waals Met Kagome: A 2D Antimonide with a Vanadium-Kagome Network.

2D materials showcase unconventional properties emerging from quantum confinement effects. In this work, a "soft chemical" route allows for the deintercalation of K from the layered antimonide KVSb, resulting in the discovery of a new metastable 2D-Kagome antimonide KVSb with a van der Waals gap of 3.2 Å.

Breaking New Ground: ene Route toward Selective Vinyl Double Bond Hydrogenation in Nitroarenes.

Doping, or incremental substitution of one element for another, is an effective way to tailor a compound's structure as well as its physical and chemical properties. Herein, we replaced up to 30% of Ni with Co in members of the family of layered LiNiB compounds, stabilizing the high-temperature polymorph of LiNiB while the room-temperature polymorph does not form. By studying this layered boride with in situ high-temperature powder diffraction, we obtained a distorted variant of LiNiCoB featuring a perfect interlayer placement of [NiCoB] layers on top of each other─a structural motif not seen before in other borides.

Path Less Traveled: A Contemporary Twist on Synthesis and Traditional Structure Solution of Metastable LiNiB.

Achieving kinetic control to synthesize metastable compounds is a challenging task, especially in solid-state reactions where the diffusion is slow. Another challenge is the unambiguous crystal structure determination for metastable compounds when high-quality single crystals suitable for single-crystal X-ray diffraction are inaccessible. In this work, we report an unconventional means of synthesis and an effective strategy to solve the crystal structure of an unprecedented metastable compound LiNiB.

Deep Eutectic Solvent Synthesis of Perovskite Electrocatalysts for Water Oxidation.

Oxide perovskites have attracted great interest as materials for energy conversion due to their stability and structural tunability. La-based perovskites of 3d-transition metals have demonstrated excellent activities as electrocatalysts in water oxidation. Herein, we report the synthesis route to La-based perovskites using an environmentally friendly deep eutectic solvent (DES) consisting of choline chloride and malonic acid.