Rationally designing new inorganic materials with specific functional properties is a fascinating challenge. This is particularly true with the nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals which can expand the spectral ranges of...

Three new chalcohalide nonlinear optical crystals, [ASr4Cl][Ge3S10] (A=Na, K) and [KBa4Cl][Ge3S10] have been successfully designed and synthesized by combining the covalent [Ge3S9] clusters and ionic [AB4Cl] frameworks. Their crystal structures...

New non-centrosymmetric (NCS) chalcohalide, [Sr4Cl2][Ge3S9] was successfully designed and synthesized through combining chemical tailoring with aliovalent substitution strategies from the maternal [NaSr4Cl][Ge3S10]. It can exhibit large SHG effect (0.97 ×...

Balancing the key performance metrics, such as, large second harmonic generation (SHG) response and wide band gap is an extremely important but intractable challenge for the development of infrared (IR)...

New polymorphic α- and β-BaTi(IO3)6 have been synthesized. They crystallize in the same space group and exhibit similar structures, but the powder XRD and crystal morphologies show their phase transition belongs to the first-order phase transition.