A New Family of Ternary Intermetallic Compounds with Dualistic Atomic Ordering – The ZIP Phases (Adv. Mater. 8/2026)
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.
Authors
- Stavros‐Richard G. Christopoulos
- C.A. Kohnert
- Franziska Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7537-6836)
- Anna Eyal
- Matheus A. Tunes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5988-5363)
- M. Alexander Schneider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8607-3301)
- Asaf Pesach (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3055-9385)
- Ganesh Kumar Nayak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6996-8998)
- Cláudio Geraldo Schön (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6506-5831)
- Tarik A. Saleh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2108-4293)
- Nick Goossens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5998-2852)
- S.A. Maloy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8037-1319)
- Marco Molinari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7144-6075)
- S. Dubois (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1881-7185)
- Konstantina Lambrinou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1264-6699)
- Sean M. Drewry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0806-0476)
- Amit Keren
- Shuigen Huang
- Omri Tabo
- Jochen M. Schneider
- Marcus Hans
- Saryu Fensin
- Jozef Vleugels
- Per O. Å. Persson
- James A. Valdez
Institutions
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Huddersfield (GB)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US)
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Montanuniversität Leoben (AT)
- Institut Pprime (FR)
- Italian Institute of Technology (IT)
- The Technological College of Beer Sheva (IL)
- Universidade Politecnica (MZ)
- Thinfilm (Sweden) (SE)
- Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (CH)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
- RWTH Aachen University (DE)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.72148
- Primary Topic
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00