High-Pressure Crystal Growth and Fabrications
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystal Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 1488
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The physical properties of materials strongly depends on the arrangement of atoms and the strength of the bonds between them. Intriguing physical phenomena, such as high-temperature superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance have been found serendipitously on new crystalline materials. Advanced techniques to fabricate materials on an atomic scale have been widely used in recent years; however, the growth of crystal structures with complex atomic orderings under ambient conditions is not realistic in most cases. A high-pressure technique is found to be a good alternative that allows growth of a wide range of materials, and a significant advantage of the technique is the avoidable presence of impurities in chemical substitution. Pressure, as one basic thermodynamic parameter, influences bonding and electron structures so as to control crystal structures and physical properties. Guided by the pressure effects on the subtle atomic ordering and interatomic interactions, much broader categories of materials with new crystal structures can be selectively stabilized under high pressure, exhibiting exotic physical properties that challenge our fundamental understanding in condensed matter physics and materials science. An important question that remains to be addressed is whether emerging high-pressure fabrication mechanisms can be established while high-quality growth conditions can be precisely controlled by improving existing techniques. If successful, new high-pressure products will help to resolve fundamental scientific questions, such as the interplay of spin-orbit coupling and electron–electron correlations in a crystal lattice. The purpose of present Special Issue “High-Pressure Crystal Growth and Fabrications” is to assemble the valuable progress on the high-pressure synthesis and characterization of novel materials to date.
Prof. Dr. Xiang Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- high pressure
- growth and fabrication
- novel materials
- crystal structures
- physical properties
