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Title: Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Realization of Missing Materials

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OSTI ID:1087242

Many chemically reasonable inorganic materials are missing from databases or literature. Two possible reasons are: (1) these materials are unstable; (2) they have been simply overlooked. Here we applied Inverse Design approach to systematically screen V-IX-IV group of 45 ternary ABX materials. High-throughput theory revealed 9 hitherto missing stable materials in this family. Combinatorial experiment synthesized one of them TaCoSn and discovered another one TaCo2Sn, the first two reported ternaries in this chemical system. This example illustrates the promise of computationally driven experimental inorganic materials chemistry.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Solar Energy Technologies Program
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1087242
Resource Relation:
Conference: American Chemical Society. Abstracts of Papers of the 245th ACS National Meeting, 7-11 April 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana; Related Information: Abstract No. INOR-716
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English