Showing papers in "Progress in Solid State Chemistry in 2011"

TL;DR: Heusler compounds as discussed by the authors are a remarkable class of intermetallic materials with 1:1:1 or 2:1-1 composition comprising more than 1500 members, and their properties can easily be predicted by the valence electron count.

TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis, characterization, and applications of rare-earth hexaborides (REB 6 ) are discussed, and the means by which researchers have successfully synthesized REB 6 is examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the electronic and chemical properties of oxides is proposed based on the electronegativity χ and the chemical hardness η, which has been applied to various oxide based metals, degenerate semiconductors and optical properties of transition metal oxides.

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile, low-temperature soft solution route was proposed to synthesize copper sulfide (CuS) nanomaterials with different morphologies by reflux condensation method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors implemented a network model for calculating the thermoelectric properties, i.e. total electric and thermal reiststances and total Seebeck coefficient, of structured composite materials.