Electrides: a review

C Liu, SA Nikolaev, W Ren, LA Burton - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrides are systems in which an electron is not bound to an atom and plays an active role
in the materials structure. We present concise summaries of the different types of electride in …

Magnetic electrides: High-throughput material screening, intriguing properties, and applications

X Zhang, W Meng, Y Liu, X Dai, G Liu… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrides are a unique class of electron-rich materials where excess electrons are localized
in interstitial lattice sites as anions, leading to a range of unique properties and applications …

Multi-dimensional inorganic electrides for energy conversion and storage

W Meng, J Wang, W Xiaotian, W Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Reflecting on the course of global development, the progress of high-performance new
materials has played a pivotal role in human history. Researchers are vigorously developing …

Machine Learning-Accelerated Discovery of A2BC2 Ternary Electrides with Diverse Anionic Electron Densities

Z Wang, Y Gong, ML Evans, Y Yan… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This study combines machine learning (ML) and high-throughput calculations to uncover
new ternary electrides in the A 2 BC 2 family of compounds with the P 4/mbm space group …

[HTML][HTML] False metals, real insulators, and degenerate gapped metals

OI Malyi, A Zunger - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper deals with a significant family of compounds predicted by simplistic electronic
structure theory to be metals but are, in fact, insulators. This false metallic state has been …

Antiferromagnetism caused by excess electrons and multiple topological electronic states in the electride

W Meng, X Zhang, Y Liu, X Dai, G Liu - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Electrides are a hot research topic due to their special electronic distribution. Recently, the
coupling effects among electrides, magnetism, and topological electronic states have …

Ferromagnetic Weyl Fermions in Two-Dimensional Layered Electride

S Liu, C Wang, L Liu, JH Choi, HJ Kim, Y Jia, CH Park… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Recently, two-dimensional layered electrides have emerged as a new class of materials
which possess anionic electrons in the interstitial spaces between cationic layers. Here …

Crystal Structures and Physicochemical Properties of and as Electride Materials

G Wang, Z Ma, JW Jiang, J Yang, YL Sun, ZF Qian… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Electrides are a special family of materials with exotic physical properties and various crystal
structures in different dimensions. Among them, alkaline-earth metal nitrides (AE 2 N) have …

Electron-Deficient-Type Electride Ca5Pb3: Extension of Electride Chemical Space

K Li, Y Gong, J Wang, H Hosono - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrides have been identified so far by two major routes: one is conversion of elemental
metals and stoichiometric compounds by high pressure; the other is to search for electron …

Chemically stable low-dimensional electrides in transition metal-rich monochalcogenides: theoretical and experimental explorations

SH Kang, D Thapa, B Regmi, S Ren… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrides, which are ionic crystals composed of excess anionic electrons, are of great
interest as an exotic material for fundamental research and practical applications in broad …