Mixed-Anion Compounds: A New Trend in Solid State Chemistry

Solid State Inorganic Chemistry

We aim to understand and exploit the factors (strain, composition, band structure etc.) that determine structure and function in the crystalline solid state. Our interest is in the balance between local crystal chemistry, strain and longer range order in a wide range of compositionally and/or displacively flexible crystalline solids. The principal experimental research tools used are solid stat...

Mixed Solid-State Fermentation

A soft-sphere discrete particle model was used to simulate mixing behavior of solid substrate particles in a slow rotating drum for solid-state fermentation. In this approach, forces acting on and subsequent motion of individual particles can be predicted. The (2D) simulations are qualitatively and quantitatively validated by mixing experiments using video and image analysis techniques. It was ...

Nanoscale atoms in solid-state chemistry.

We describe a solid-state material formed from binary assembly of atomically precise molecular clusters. [Co6Se8(PEt3)6][C60]2 and [Cr6Te8(PEt3)6][C60]2 assembled into a superatomic relative of the cadmium iodide (CdI2) structure type. These solid-state materials showed activated electronic transport with activation energies of 100 to 150 millielectron volts. The more reducing cluster Ni9Te6(PE...

Challenges and opportunities in solid-state chemistry*

We are largely unable to predict the composition and crystal structure of new extended structure compounds. Yet we find that as materials become more complex in stoichiometry and structure, new, interesting, and perhaps useful, phenomena are encountered. The need for improved experimental and theoretical approaches to seize more rapidly the opportunities provided in this complexity is discussed.

Coordination chemistry in the solid state.