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The search for alternative nuclear fuels, materials suitable for nuclear waste repositories, and new superconducting materials has been underway for decades. We have explored metal flux and mixed-metal flux synthesis and supercritical...
This PhD thesis is devoted to investigation of inorganic materials with low-dimensional structures. Such materials attract significant fundamental and applied interest due to the potential to achieve highly anisotropic properties, which...
Flux synthesis of new complex compounds uses an excess of molten metals or salts as a reaction medium. This solution-based method is a valuable tool in materials synthesis, enabling the solid-state chemist to achieve reactivity at...
We report the synthesis and characterization for two single crystalline lanthenide-host compound Sm$_{6}$T$_{4}$Al$_{43}$ (T = Mo and W), that form in the hexagonal Ho$_{6}$Mo$_{4}$Al$_{43}$ prototype. The Sm ions reside within T/Al...
Metal flux synthesis is a useful technique for the discovery of novel intermetallic phases. The molten state enhances diffusion rates which improves rates of reaction. Reactions can proceed at lower temperatures, allowing for the...
Flux synthesis is a useful method for the exploration and development of new tetrelide Zintl phases. Reactions of heavy divalent metals (A = Ca, Sr, Ba, Eu, Yb) with tetrels (Tt = Si, Ge, Sn) in Mg/Al flux mixtures produce charge...
In the present work, excited state proton transfer (ESPT) was investigated for a variety of applications with two main areas of focus; its excited state super acidity and its uniquely large apparent Stokes shift. When a molecule absorbs...
Crystalline intermetallic phases grown by metal flux synthesis are discussed in terms of structure-property relationships. Flux growth is employed as the primary synthesis methods across different systems from single element fluxes like...
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