Design of crystal-like aperiodic solids with selective disorder–phonon coupling

Alistair R. Overy; Andrew B. Cairns; Matthew J. Cliffe; Arkadiy Simonov; Matthew G. Tucker; Andrew L. Goodwin

doi:10.1038/ncomms10445

Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Design of crystal-like aperiodic solids with selective disorder–phonon coupling

Alistair R. Overy,
Andrew B. Cairns,
Matthew J. Cliffe,
Arkadiy Simonov,
Matthew G. Tucker,
Andrew L. Goodwin

Affiliations

Alistair R. Overy: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
Andrew B. Cairns: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
Matthew J. Cliffe: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
Arkadiy Simonov: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
Matthew G. Tucker: Diamond Light Source
Andrew L. Goodwin: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10445
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Conventional crystallography focuses on structurally-ordered systems, where interesting physics or novel material functions emerge. Here, Overy et al. propose an approach of designing functional materials with strongly correlated disorder, which can couple with phonons to affect lattice dynamics.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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