J. Paul Attfield

TL;DR: The opportunities enabled by recent advances in synthetic approaches for design of both local and overall structure, state-of-the-art characterization techniques to distinguish unique structural and chemical states, and chemical/physical properties emerging from the synergy of multiple anions for catalysis, energy conversion, and electronic materials are discussed.

TL;DR: The full low-temperature superstructure of magnetite is determined by high-energy X-ray diffraction from an almost single-domain, 40-micrometre grain, and the emergent order is identified, suggesting trimerons may be important quasiparticles in magnetite above the Verwey transition and in other transition metal oxides.

TL;DR: It is reported that colossal negative thermal expansion (defined as linear expansion <−10−4 K−1 over a temperature range ~100 K) is accessible in perovskite oxides showing charge-transfer transitions.

TL;DR: The crystal structure of highly stoichiometric magnetite below the Verwey transition has been refined from high-resolution neutron and synchrotron x-ray powder-diffraction data as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is shown that nanoparticulate zirconium nitride (ZrN) can replace and even surpass Pt as a catalyst for ORR in alkaline environments and is shown to deliver a greater power density and cyclability than Pt/C in a zinc–air battery.