This review highlights the use and great potential of liquid metals as exotic and powerful
solvents (ie fluxes) for the synthesis of intermetallic phases. The results presented …

Heavy fermion compounds represent one of the most strongly correlated forms of electronic
matter and give rise to low temperature states that range from small moment ordering to …

This review summarizes the synthetic aspects, the structural and crystal chemical
peculiarities as well as the physical properties of the members of the CeCr2Al20 type family …

The origin of the nonmagnetic phase transition in PrTi 2 Al 20, reported earlier in a
macroscopic study, has been asserted microscopically using elastic and inelastic neutron …

The anisotropy in elasticity, mechanical properties and electronic properties of CaM 2 Al 20
(M= V, Nb, Cr, Ti, Mo and Ta) compounds were investigated using the first-principle …

Magnetization, electrical resistivity and specific heat measurements were performed on high-
quality single crystalline SmTi 2 Al 20 (residual resistivity ratio∼ 40) grown by Al self-flux …

Crystal growth and full structure determination of compounds adopting the CeCr2Al20
structure type, LnTi2Al20 (Ln= La–Pr, Sm, and Yb), LnV2Al20 (Ln= La–Pr, and Sm), and …

One of the historic goals of alchemy was to turn base elements into precious ones. Although
the practice of alchemy has been superseded by chemistry and solid-state physics, the …

First principles calculations were used to explore the structural stability, mechanical
properties, ductile or brittle behavior, anisotropic properties and thermodynamic properties …

First principles calculations were used to explore the structural stability, elastic properties,
ductile or brittle behavior, anisotropy, dynamical stability and thermodynamic properties of …