Revealing Novel Symmetries in Misfit Compounds
Misfit layer compounds (MLC) are laminar intergrowths consisting of two or more layered sublattices that can exhibit drastically different properties than each constituent sublattice. MLCs exhibit modularity that is not fully substantiated due to the limited understanding of synthesis reaction mechanisms, limiting structural diversity. We will investigate the reaction mechanisms of how these materials form via in-situ methods and use these insights to design bulk MLCs with novel heterointerfaces and stacking schemes, and explore exfoliation to uncover non-centrosymmetry in few-layer structures that exhibit multiple distinct heterointerfaces.
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