Overview
(This page remains under construction and will contain links to publications and summaries of specific research interests.)
My group's research involved designing, preparing, and characterizing new inorganic solids with potentially interesting properties by synergistic application of solid-state synthesis, diffraction, and electronic structure theory. By studying metal-rich compounds, such as intermetallics and transition metal cluster compounds, we sought to understand relationships among chemical composition, atomic structure, physical properties, and chemical bonding.
(Images in this figure come from the Ph.D. thesis of Prof. Weiwei Xie, now at Michigan St. University.)
Review and Summary Articles
"Chemical Bonding in Solids", with Yuemei Zhang and Frank R. Wagner, Handbook of Solid State Chemistry, Eds. R. Dronskowski, S. Kikkawa, A. Stein, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2017, Volume 5, pp. 405-489.
"Electronic States of Intermetallic Compounds", with Olivier Gourdon and Delphine Gout, Reference module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering, Ed. S. Hashmi, Elsevier, Oxford, 2016, pp. 1-16. (See also Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, Eds. G. Bassani, G. Liedl, P. Wyder, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 409-422.)
"Metal-Rich Compounds of the d-Metals", Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II, Eds. E. Antipov, A. Abakumov, A.V. Shevelkov, K. Poeppelmeier, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2013, Volume 2.12, pp. 311-357.
"Quantitative Advances in the Zintl-Klemm Formalism", with Michael W. Schmidt, Tae-Soo You, Fei Wang, Structure and Bonding, 2011, Volume 139, pp. 1-55.
"Relation Between Chemical Bonding and Exchange Coupling Approaches to the Description of Ordering in Itinerant Magnets", with German Samolyuk, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2008, Volume 29, pp. 2177-2186 (special issue of "Computational Solid State Chemistry).
"Magnetochemistry", McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2007, Volume 10, pp. 323-327.
"Rare-Earth Tetrelides, RE5(Si, Ge)4: Materials for Magnetic Refrigeration", Chemical Society Reviews, 2006, Volume 35, pp. 799-813.
"Structure and Bonding Around the Zintl Border", with Chi-Shen Lee, Wonyoung Choe, Highlights in Inorganic Chemistry, Ed. G. Meyer, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2002, pp. 21-54.
"Where are the Atoms in Quasicrystals?" with Chi-Shen Lee, Wen-Jian Tsai, Materials Research Society Proceedings, 2001, Volume 643, pp. K.3.1.1-11 (conference proceedings article based upon an invited presentation).
"The Coloring Problem in Solids: How It Affects Structure, Composition, and Properties," European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 1998, pp. 523-536.
"Structure and Bonding at the Zintl Border", Chemistry, Structure, and Bonding of Zintl Phases and Ions, Ed. S.M. Kauzlarich, VCH Publishers, New York, 1996, pp. 1-59.
"Orbital Symmetry and Superconductivity in Carbides and Borocarbides", Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides, Ed. S. T. Oyama, Chapman & Hall, New York, 1996, pp. 134-153.
"Chemistry and Properties of Novel Niobium Cluster Compounds", Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1995, Volume 229, pp. 93-106.
"Solid State Halides: Structures and Properties", Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, Wiley-Interscience, London, 1994.