Advances in materials and applications of inorganic electrides

H Hosono, M Kitano - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrides are materials in which electrons serve as anions. Here, the concept of inorganic
electrides is extended in several respects: from ionic crystals to intermetallic compounds in …

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 …

Multifold Fermions and Fermi Arcs Boosted Catalysis in Nanoporous Electride 12CaO·7Al2O3

W Meng, X Zhang, Y Liu, X Dai, G Liu, Y Gu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Topological materials have been recently regarded as ideal catalysts for heterogeneous
reactions due to their surface metallic states and high carrier mobility. However, the …

Magnetic topological materials in two-dimensional: theory, material realization and application prospects

X Zhang, X Wang, T He, L Wang, WW Yu, Y Liu, G Liu… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) magnetism and nontrivial band topology are both areas of
research that are currently receiving significant attention in the study of 2D materials …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ternary compound HfCuP: An excellent Weyl semimetal with the coexistence of type-I and type-II Weyl nodes

W Meng, X Zhang, T He, L Jin, X Dai, Y Liu… - Journal of Advanced …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In most Weyl semimetal (WSMs), the Weyl nodes with opposite chiralities usually
have the same type of band dispersions (either type-I or type-II), whereas realistic candidate …

Electrides as a new platform of topological materials

M Hirayama, S Matsuishi, H Hosono, S Murakami - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Recent discoveries of topological phases realized in electronic states in solids have
revealed an important role of topology, which ubiquitously appears in various materials in …

Topological nodal line state in superconducting NaAlSi compound

L Jin, X Zhang, T He, W Meng, X Dai… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Superconductors with a nontrivial band structure are promising to realize a topological
superconducting state. Herein, we report the presence of a topological phase in a well …

Theoretical descriptors of electrides

SG Dale, ER Johnson - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2018 - ACS Publications
Electrides are ionic substances in which the anionic species is stoichiometrically replaced
with localized electrons that reside within crystal voids. Originally discovered in 1983, the …