(17 Aug)Our former undergraduate, Joe Kraus, is continuing his academic career at MIT in pursuit of a PhD. Congratulations Joe!

(31 July) "The Zintl Concept Applied to Intergrowth Structures: Electron-Hole Matching, Stacking Preferences, and Chemical Pressures in Pd5InAs.", has been published in ZAAC. Go take a look!

(7 July) "As predicted and more: modulated channel occupation in YZn5+x.", now published in Acta Cryst. B!

(23 June) In Inorg. Chem. (ASAP): "Entropic Control of Bonding, Guided by Chemical Pressure: Phase Transitions and 18-n+m Isomerism of IrIn3.", check it out!

(21 June) Published in J. Chem. Theory Comput. (ASAP): "Self-Consistent Chemical Pressure Analysis: Resolving Atomic Packing Effects through the Iterative Partitioning of Space and Energy", take a look!

(2 May)Now in Chem. Mater. "The Intermetallic Reactivity Database: Compiling Chemical Pressure and Electronic Metrics toward Materials Design and Discovery".

(20 Mar)Our cover for the REAl3 article is featured in Inorganic Chemistry! Check it out!

(3 Jan)Now in Inorg. Chem: "Emergent Transitions: Discord between Electronic and Chemical Pressure Effects in the REAl3 (RE = Sc, Y, Lanthanides) Series"

(14 Nov)Now in Chem. Mater: "Temporary Cohabitation: The Metastable Phase Au4Si"

(10 Nov)Now in Chem. Mater: "A Tour of Soft Atomic Motions: Chemical Pressure Quadrupoles Across Transition Metal-Main Group 1:2 Structure Types"

(26 Oct)Now in Inorg. Chem: "Chemical Pressure-Derived Assembly Principles for Dodecagonal Quasicrystal Approximants and Other Complex Frank-Kasper Phases"

(8 Aug)Congratulations to Kendall Kamp for completing her PhD!

(18 May)Now in Inorg. Chem: "Buffering Octahedra in Mo4Zr9P: Intergrowth as a Solution to the Frustrated Packing of Tricapped Trigonal Prisms and Icosahedra."

(14 Apr)Now in ZAAC: "Local Stability to Periodicity in the EuMg35+x Type: Chemical Pressure, Disordered Channels, and Predicted Superstructure in YZn35.225"

(8 Dec)Welcome to our newest group members, Leah and Patrick!

(26 Aug)Congratulations to Erdong Lu on completing his PhD!

(26 Jul)Now in Crystals: "Tutorial on Chemical Pressure Analysis: How Atomic Packing Drives Laves/Zintl Intergrowth in K3Au5Tl"

(9 Mar)Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Frustrated Packing in Simple Structures: Chemical Pressure Hindrance to Isolobal Bonds in the TiAl3 type and ZrAl2.6Sn0.4"

(23 Dec)Now in ZAAC: "Structural Plasticity in the Frank-Kasper Realm: Chemical Pressure Roles of the μ- and χ-Phase Units in the Mo-Fe-Cr System"

(19 Nov)Welcome to Brenna, our newest group members!

(7 Aug)Now in Inorg. Chem.: "At the Limits of Isolobal Bonding: π-Based Covalent Magnetism in Mn2Hg5"

(9 Jul)Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Frustrated and Allowed Structural Transitions at the Limits of the BaAl4 Type: The (3 + 2)D Modulated Structure of Dy(Cu0.18Ga0.82)3.71"

(7 May)Congratulations to Hillary Mitchell Warden on completing her PhD!

(29 Apr)Now in J. Am. Chem. Soc.: "Mn39Si9Nx: Epitaxial Stabilization as a Pathway to the Formation of Intermetallic Nitrides"

(23 Mar)Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Entropy-Driven Incommensurability: Chemical Pressure-Guided Polymorphism in PdBi and the Origins of Lock-In Phenomena in Modulated Systems"

(9 Mar)Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Intermetallic Reactivity: Ca3Cu7.8Al26.2 and the Role of Electronegativity in the Stabilization of Modular Structures"

(25 Feb)Congratulations to Gordon Peterson on completing his PhD!

(27 Nov)We have a group Twitter now! Check it out!

(19 Nov)Welcome to Brandon, Jonathan and Danica, our newest group members!

(7 Nov)Now in J. Am. Chem. Soc.: "Frustrated and Allowed Structural Transitions: The Theory-Guided Discovery of the Modulated Structure of IrSi"

(24 Jul)Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Cation Clustering in Intermetallics: The Modular Bonding Schemes of CaCu and Ca2Cu"

(13 Mar)Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Templating Structural Progessions in Intermetallics: How Chemical Pressure Directs Helix Formation in the Nowotny Chimney Ladders"

(21 Feb)Now in Acta Crystallorg. A.: "Principles of weakly ordered domains in intermetallics: the cooperative effects of atomic packing and electronics in Fe2Al5"

(7 Feb)Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Pseudogap Control of Physical and Chemical Properties in CeFeSi-Type Intermetallics"

(17 Jan)Congratulations to Katie Hilleke on completing her PhD!

(19 Nov) Welcome to Amber, Keyu and Kyana our newest group members!

(18 Oct) Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Paths to Stabilizing Electronically Aberrant Compounds: A Defect-Stabilized Polymorph and Constrained Atomic Motion in PtGa2"

(2 Oct) Now in J. Phys. Chem. A: "Discerning Chemical Pressure amidst Weak Potentials: Vibrational Modes and Dumbbell/Atom Substitution in Intermetallic Aluminides"

(8 Nov) Welcome to Mary and Kendall, our newest group members!

(14 May) Now in Angew. Chem.: "Inducing Complexity in Intermetallics through Electron–Hole Matching: The Structure of Fe14Pd17Al69."

(4 May) Now in Z. Kristallogr: "Electron-counting in intermetallics made easy: the 18-n rule and isolobal bonds across the Os–Al system."

(21 Feb) Now in Crystal Growth & Design: "Substitution Patterns Understood through Chemical Pressure Analysis: Atom/dumbbell and Ru/Co Ordering in Derivatives of YCo5."

(20 Feb) Now in Inorg. Chem.: "18-Electron Resonance Structures in the BCC Transition Metals and Their CsCl-type Derivatives."

(9 Nov) Danny's commentary on recent work by the Freedman group at Northwestern

(8 Nov) Welcome to Erdong, our newest group member!

(28 Sep) Now in Inorg. Chem.: "On the Functionality of Complex Intermetallics: Frustration, Chemical Pressure Relief, and Potential Rattling Atoms in Y11Ni60C6."

(1 Aug) Now in Crystal Growth & Design: "Putting ScTGa5 (T = Fe, Co, Ni) on the Map: How Electron Counts and Chemical Pressure Shape the Stability Range of the HoCoGa5 Type."

(21 June) Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Chemical Pressure-Driven Incommensurability in CaPd5: Clues to High-Pressure Chemistry Offered by Complex Intermetallics."

(1 June) Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Toward Design Principles for Diffusionless Transformations: The Frustrated Formation of Co-Co Bonds in a Low-Temperature Polymorph of GdCoSi2."

(May)Congratulations to Brandon, Kale, and Yiming upon successfully completing their PhD degrees!

(6 Apr) Now in Chemistry of Materials: "Chemical Pressure Schemes for the Prediction of Soft Phonon Modes: A Chemist's Guide to the Vibrations of Solid State Materials."

(1 Apr) Now in Crystals: "PRINCEPS: A Computer-Based Approach to the Structural Description and Recognition of Trends within Structual Databases and Its Application to the Ce-Ni-Si System."

(7 Dec) Now in JACS: "Epitaxial Stabilization between Intermetallic and Carbide Domains in the Structures of Mn16SiC4 and Mn17Si2C4."

(19 Nov) Now in Inorg. Chem: "Generality of the 18-n Rule: Intermetallic Structural Chemistry Explained through Isolobal Analogies to Transition Metal Complexes."

(2 Nov) Welcome to Hillary, our newest group member!

(27 July) Now in Inorg. Chem: "Defusing Complexity in Intermetallics: How Covalently Shared Electron Pairs Stabilize the FCC Variant Mo2CuxGa6-x (x ≈ 0.9)."

(27 April) Dr. Berns' thesis comic book draws attention. (link to video)

(3 Nov) Welcome to Gordon and Leland, our newest group members!

(3 Oct) Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Homoatomic Clustering in T4Ga5 (T = Ta, Nb, Ta/Mo): A Story of Reluctant Intermetallics Crystallizing in a New Binary Structure Type."

(19 Sep) Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Structural Plasticity: How Intermetallics Deform Themselves in Response to Chemical Pressure, and the Complex Structures That Result."

(12 Sep) Now in Inorg. Chem.: "Orbital Origins of Helices and Magic Electron Counts in the Nowotny Chimney Ladders: the 18 - n Rule and a Path to Incommensurability."

(05 Aug) Now in JACS: "Pi-Conjugation in Gd13Fe10C13 and Its Oxycarbide: Unexpected Connections between Complex Carbides and Simple Organic Molecules"

(07 Jun) Now in JCTC: "Progress in Visualizing Atomic Size Effects with DFT-Chemical Pressure Analysis: From Isolated Atoms to Trends in AB5 Intermetallics."

(21 Feb) Published in Inorg. Chem.: "Isolobal Analogies in Intermetallics: The Reversed Approximation MO Approach and CrGa4- and Ir3Ge7-type Phases."