A computationally-guided non-equilibrium synthesis approach to materials discovery in the SrO-Al2O3-SiO2 phase field

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Aug 29;59(70):10544-10547. doi: 10.1039/d3cc03120a.

Abstract

Glass-crystallisation synthesis is coupled to probe structure prediction for the guided discovery of new metastable oxides in the SrO-Al2O3-SiO2 phase field, yielding a new ternary ribbon-silicate, Sr2Si3O8. In principle, this methodology can be applied to a wide range of oxide chemistries by selecting an appropriate non-equilibrium synthesis route.