The role of π-blocking hydride ligands in a pressure-induced insulator-to-metal phase transition in SrVO2H

Incorporating hydride anions into transition metal oxides can dramatically affect their structural and electronic properties. Here the authors reveal a pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transition in SrVO2H and show that the compressibility of hydride anions without π-symmetry valence orbitals cau...

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Main Authors: Takafumi Yamamoto, Dihao Zeng, Takateru Kawakami, Vaida Arcisauskaite, Kanami Yata, Midori Amano Patino, Nana Izumo, John E. McGrady, Hiroshi Kageyama, Michael A. Hayward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01301-0