A New Family of Ternary Intermetallic Compounds with Dualistic Atomic Ordering – The ZIP Phases (Adv. Mater. 8/2026)

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Authors: Matheus A. Tunes, Sean M. Drewry, Franziska Schmidt, James A. Valdez, M. Alexander Schneider, Caitlin Kohnert, Tarik A. Saleh, Saryu Fensin, S.A. Maloy, Cláudio Geraldo Schön, S. Dubois, Omri Tabo
+13 more Anna Eyal, Amit Keren, Asaf Pesach, Ganesh Kumar Nayak, Stavros‐Richard G. Christopoulos, Marco Molinari, Marcus Hans, Nick Goossens, Shuigen Huang, Jochen M. Schneider, Per O. Å. Persson, Jozef Vleugels, Konstantina Lambrinou
DOI: 10.1002/adma.72148
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Abstract

Novel Ternary Intermetallics In their Research Article (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202308168), Matheus A. Tunes, Konstantina Lambrinou, and co-workers introduce the ZIP phases – a new family of ternary intermetallics with two structural variants: one fcc (space group Fdm) and one hexagonal (space group P63/mmc). Atomically resolved images and crystal structure schematics of the two Nb-Si-Ni ZIP phases are pasted on the yin-yang symbol of duality. The advent of the ZIP phases creates a new ecosystem of nanostructured solids and potential 2D derivatives with properties unlike those achieved by related solids (e.g., MAX phases/MXenes). Background image: Courtesy NASA.

Fields of Study & Subjects

MXene and MAX Phase Materials Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties Machine Learning in Materials Science

Publication details

Journal / source
Advanced Materials
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
38
Issue
8
Publication date
1 February 2026
Language
EN