This perspective provides an experimentalist's view on materials discovery in multinary
materials systems—from nanoparticles over thin films to bulk—based on combinatorial thin …

Clusters have been the subject of intense investigations since their famous definition
launched by Cotton in 1963, and the area has expanded ever since. One obvious …

At high pressure, the typical behavior of elements dictated by the periodic table—including
oxidation numbers, stoichiometries in compounds, and reactivity, to name but a few—is …

Conspectus The application of high pressure adds an additional dimension to chemical
phase space, opening up an unexplored expanse bearing tremendous potential for …

Incorporating bismuth, the heaviest element stable to radioactive decay, into new materials
enables the creation of emergent properties such as permanent magnetism …

Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) is a cornerstone technique in materials characterization.
However, complete structure determination from PXRD patterns alone remains time …

Exploration beyond the known phase space of thermodynamically stable compounds into
the realm of metastable materials is a frontier of materials chemistry. The application of high …

A thorough in situ characterization of materials at extreme conditions is challenging, and
computational tools such as crystal structural search methods in combination with ab initio …

We report on the asymmetric occupation of a 12‐vertex cluster centered by a single metal
atom. Three salts of related intermetalloid cluster anions,[Co@ Sn6Sb6] 3−(1),[Co2 …

Employment of liquid bismuth (Bi) allows the facile single-crystal growth of compounds
containing elements with high melting points, provided that these elements have reasonably …