The development of new functional materials builds on an understanding of the intricate
relationship between material structure and properties, and structural characterization is a …

The importance of total scattering and its Fourier transform, the pair distribution function, in
crystallography was understood soon after it was shown that crystals diffract X-rays …

The lithium‐conducting, rare‐earth halides, Li3MX6 (M= Y, Er; X= Cl, Br), have garnered
significantly rising interest recently, as they have been reported to have oxidative stability …

Driven by the rising demand for consumer electronics, the field of all solid-state batteries
employing solid electrolytes as the ion-conducting separator has attracted enormous …

Aliovalent substitution is a common strategy to improve the ionic conductivity of solid
electrolytes for solid-state batteries. The substitution of SbS43–by WS42–in Na2. 9Sb0 …

The Na+ ionic conductivity of ball milled Na3− xIn1− xZrxCl6 rises with increasing Zr content,
while that in the subsequently annealed Na3− xIn1− xZrxCl6 compounds reaches a …

The earth abundant sulphide Ni2FeS4 was used as a highly efficient co-catalyst for the
hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) over TiO2, boosting the activity of pure TiO2 (P25) by a …

Heterogeneous catalysts are complex materials, often containing multiple atomic species
and phases with various degrees of structural order. The identification of structure …

Solid electrolytes with high values of lithium-ion conductivity are required for the creation of
high-energy lithium and lithium-ion power sources, and compounds with a garnet structure …

Self-assembled polynuclear lanthanide hydroxo complexes are important objects in the
reticular chemistry approach to the design of various functional materials. Revealing their …