The metal flux: a preparative tool for the exploration of intermetallic compounds

MG Kanatzidis, R Pöttgen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Hypervalent Bonding in One, Two, and Three Dimensions: Extending the Zintl–Klemm Concept to Nonclassical Electron‐Rich Networks

G A. Papoian, R Hoffmann - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We construct a theory for electron‐rich polyanionic networks in the intermetallic compounds
of heavy late main group elements, building a bonding framework that makes a connection …

High figure of merit in partially filled ytterbium skutterudite materials

GS Nolas, M Kaeser, RT Littleton, TM Tritt - Applied Physics Letters, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
We present evidence of a relatively high dimensionless figure of merit (ZT) in a
polycrystalline skutterudite partially filled with ytterbium ions. The small-diameter yet heavy …

Effect of partial void filling on the lattice thermal conductivity of skutterudites

GS Nolas, JL Cohn, GA Slack - Physical Review B, 1998 - APS
Polycrystalline samples of antimonides with the skutterudite crystal structure with La partially
filling the voids have been prepared in an effort to quantify the impact of partial void filling on …

Quaternary rare earth transition metal arsenide oxides RTAsO (T= Fe, Ru, Co) with ZrCuSiAs type structure

P Quebe, LJ Terbüchte, W Jeitschko - Journal of alloys and compounds, 2000 - Elsevier
The equiatomic quaternary compounds RFeAsO (R= La–Nd, Sm, Gd), RRuAsO (R= La–Nd,
Sm, Gd–Dy) and RCoAsO (R= La–Nd) crystallize with the tetragonal ZrCuSiAs type …

Zintl phases with group 15 elements and the transition metals: A brief overview of pnictides with diverse and complex structures

A Ovchinnikov, S Bobev - Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Chemical combinations of metals with group 15 elements result in compounds
demonstrating a plethora of crystal structures. Many such compounds, referred to as …

The rate earth transition metal phosphide oxides LnFePO, LnRuPO and LnCoPO with ZrCuSiAs type structure

BI Zimmer, W Jeitschko, JH Albering, R Glaum… - Journal of Alloys and …, 1995 - Elsevier
The compounds LnFePO (Ln= La− Nd, Sm, Gd), LnRuPO (Ln= La− Nd, Sm, Gd) and (Ln=
La− Nd, Sm) crystallize with the tetragonal) ZrCuSiAs type structure (P4/nmm, Z= 2), which …

Nanostructuring of p-and n-type skutterudites reaching figures of merit of approximately 1.3 and 1.6, respectively

G Rogl, A Grytsiv, P Rogl, E Bauer, M Hochenhofer… - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric (TE) conversion of waste heat into useful electricity demands optimized
thermal and electrical transport in the leg material over a wide temperature range. In order to …

Magnetic properties of alkaline earth and lanthanoid iron antimonides AFe4Sb12 (A= Ca, Sr, Ba, La Nd, Sm, Eu) with the LaFe4P12 structure

ME Danebrock, CBH Evers, W Jeitschko - Journal of Physics and …, 1996 - Elsevier
The magnetic properties of the nine title compounds were studied by magnetic susceptibility
measurements with a SQUID magnetometer between 2 and 300 K. At temperatures above …

A new generation of p-type didymium skutterudites with high ZT

G Rogl, A Grytsiv, P Rogl, E Bauer, M Zehetbauer - Intermetallics, 2011 - Elsevier
This work evaluates the influence of single, double and triple filling of didymium, Ca and Ba
in Fe4Sb12 as well as in Fe3CoSb12 on the thermoelectric performance. Various filling …