Using the angle-dispersive synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction technique in a diamond anvil cell, the high-pressure behaviors of antimony telluride (Sb(2)Te(3)) are explored up to 52.7 GPa at room temperature. Three high-pressure phases have been observed, at about 8.0 GPa, 13.2 GPa and above 21.6 GPa, respectively. Furthermore, the crystalline structures of these high-pressure phases are determined as monoclinic sevenfold C2/m phase, eightfold C2/c phase and disordered body-centered cubic structure (space group Im - 3m) respectively. The phase-transition sequences and pressures observed are well explained by first-principles calculations. The pressure dependence of the volume of all high-pressure phases is described by a third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state. All the high-pressure phases are metallic and the metallic character for β-, γ- and δ-Sb(2)Te(3) increases in turn based on the results of the electronic density of states calculated for each high-pressure phase.
2D-layered Yb/Er homo- and heterometallic MOFs with the chlorocyananilate linker display long-lived NIR emission and high total quantum yields upon ligand excitation over the whole UV-visible spectrum.
In this study, three La2O3 hierarchical micro/nanostructures, nanospindles, nanopolyhedra and nanospheres, were synthesized to remove phosphate from microbial growth media for bacterial inactivation as an antimicrobial strategy.
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