“…During our investigation of the A 2 O-NiO-X 2 O 5 (A = Na or Li; X = P and/or As) system, in search of new materials with open structures likely to exhibit interesting properties as electroactive materials, a number of new materials with various structures have been discovered, namely Na 4 Ni 7 -(AsO 4 ) 6 (Ben Smail et al, 2007), an arsenate exhibiting the -xenophyllite-like structure (Marzouki et al, 2013), Na 4 Ni 5 -[(As 0.73 ,P 0.27 )O 4 ] 2 [(As 0.59 ,P 1.41 )O 7 ] 2 (Ben Smail & Jouini, 2004), isostructural with the phosphate Na 4 Ni 5 (PO 4 ) 2 (P 2 O 7 ) 2 (Sanz et al, 1999), Na 3 Ni 2 (As 0.1 ,P 0.9 )O 4 (As 1.3 ,P 0.7 )O 7 and its limiting arsenate compound that is a moderate ionic conductor (Ben Smail & Jouini, 2005), NaNi 4 (AsO 4 ) 3 , the first noncentrosymmetric nickel arsenate (Ben Smail et al, 2002), and LiNi 2 As 3 O 10 , which is the first nickel triarsenate with a tunnel structure (Ben Smail & Zid, 2017b). Recently, we have extended our study to the quaternary A 2 O-Fe 2 O 3 -NiO-As 2 O 5 system (A = alkali metal), in which we have synthesized a new arsenate with the -CrPO 4 structure type (Glaum et al, 1986;Attfield et al, 1988), namely K 1.25 Ni 0.875 Fe 2 (AsO 4 ) 3 (Ben Smail & Zid, 2017a).…”