Structure prediction drives materials discovery

AR Oganov, CJ Pickard, Q Zhu, RJ Needs - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Progress in the discovery of new materials has been accelerated by the development of
reliable quantum-mechanical approaches to crystal structure prediction. The properties of a …

Materials discovery at high pressures

L Zhang, Y Wang, J Lv, Y Ma - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Pressure is a fundamental thermodynamic variable that can be used to control the properties
of materials, because it reduces interatomic distances and profoundly modifies electronic …

[HTML][HTML] High pressure effects revisited for the cuprate superconductor family with highest critical temperature

A Yamamoto, N Takeshita, C Terakura… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
How to enhance the superconducting critical temperature (T c) has been a primary issue
since the discovery of superconductivity. The highest T c reported so far is 166 K in …

Possible “magnéli” phases and self-alloying in the superconducting sulfur hydride

R Akashi, W Sano, R Arita, S Tsuneyuki - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We theoretically give an infinite number of metastable crystal structures for the
superconducting sulfur hydride H x S under pressure. Previously predicted crystalline …

Zero Resistivity above 150 K in HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ at High Pressure

N Takeshita, A Yamamoto, A Iyo… - journal of the physical …, 2013 - journals.jps.jp
We measured the electrical resistivity of a HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+ δ (Hg-1223) polycrystalline
sample under high pressure. Owing to the improved sample quality and the nearly …

[HTML][HTML] Superconductivity of novel tin hydrides (SnnHm) under pressure

M Mahdi Davari Esfahani, Z Wang, AR Oganov… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
With the motivation of discovering high-temperature superconductors, evolutionary algorithm
USPEX is employed to search for all stable compounds in the Sn-H system. In addition to the …

Rapid suppression of the charge density wave in under hydrostatic pressure

SM Souliou, H Gretarsson, G Garbarino, A Bosak… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We report on the effects of hydrostatic pressure (HP) on the charge density wave observed
in underdoped cuprates. We studied YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6.6 (T c= 61 K) using high-resolution …

Progress and prospects for cuprate high temperature superconductors under pressure

AC Mark, JC Campuzano, RJ Hemley - High Pressure Research, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Since the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in L a 5− x B ax C u 5 O 5 (3− y) at
an unprecedented T c of 35 K over 35 years ago, high pressure experiments have played a …

Fluorine insertion reactions into pre-formed metal oxides

EE McCabe, C Greaves - Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
Fluorine insertion reactions have been shown to be capable of modifying the physical
properties of metal oxide materials, as a result of the structural and electronic consequences …

investigation of under pressure

V Christiansson, F Petocchi, P Werner - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental observation of a large pressure effect on T c in Pr 1− x
Sr x NiO 2, we study the electronic properties of this compound as a function of pressure for …