We just got a VR (Vetenskapsrådet) research grant on rare-earth containing ionic liquids approved:
https://www.vr.se/soka-finansiering/beslut/2020-09-08-naturvetenskap-och-teknikvetenskap.html
Read about our approach to mitigate the rare earth crisis by a simple, environmentally benign, and efficient chemical separation process:
D. Prodius, M. Klocke, V. Smetana, T. Alammar, M. Perez Garcia, T.L. Windus, I.C. Nlebedim, A.-V. Mudring:
Rationally designed rare earth separation by selective oxalate solubilization, Chem. Commun. 2020. DOI: 10.1039/D0CC02270E
Magnetic Phase transitions in Eu(Co1-xNix)2As2 single crystals.
Fruits from a collaboration with our colleagues from Ames Lab:
N. S. Sangeetha, Santanu Pakhira, D. H. Ryan, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring, D. C. Johnston, Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 084407
Elucidating structure–property relationships in imidazolium-based halide ionic liquids: crystal structures and thermal behavior
Our work on increasing the understanding of ionic liquid properties through analysis of their solid, crystalline structures is dedicated to Professor Dr. Ulrich Müller on the occasion of his 80th birthday – Ulrich Müller is a master of crystallography and has made seminal contributions to crystallographic group theory.
K. Richter, K. Dorn, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring: Elucidating structure–property relationships in imidazolium-based halide ionic liquids: crystal structures and thermal behavior, Z. Krist. 2020, DOI: doi.org/10.1515/zkri-2020-0046.
Hidden, obscured, or nonexistent? Digging deep in phase diagrams!
T. Bell, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring, G. Meyer, Binary Intermetallics in the 70 atom % R Region of Two RPd Systems (R = Tb and Er): Hidden, Obscured, or Nonexistent?, Inorg. Chem. 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01311
Ferromagnetic Cluster-Glass Phase in Ca(Co1−xIrx)2−yAs2 Crystals
Read more about it in
S. Pakhira, N. S. Sangeetha, D. H. Ryan, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring, D.C. Johnston, Ferromagnetic Cluster-Glass Phase in Ca(Co1−xIrx)2−yAs2 crystals, Phys. Rev. B, 2020, 102, 024410.
Contributing to a green and sustainable future.
Our recent progress in the developments for the next generation of light sources:
J. Namanga, V. Smetana, N. Gerlitzki, A.-V. Mudring, Efficient and long lived green light emitting electrochemical cells, Adv. Func. Mat., 2020
Ionic liquids allow the realization of unusual coordination environments in coordination chemistry
S.-F. Tang, V. Smetana, M.K. Mishra, S.P. Kelley, O. Renier, R.D. Rogers, A.-V. Mudring, Forcing Dicyanamide Coordination to f-Elements by Dissolution in Dicyanamide-based Ionic Liquids, Inorg. Chem. 2020
Platinides or Stannides that is the question! Do relativistic effects win in the chemistry of intermetallics?!
M. Rhodehouse, V. Smetana, C. Celania, A.-V. Mudring, G. H. Meyer, Ternary polar intermetallics within the systems Pt/Sn/R (R = La-Sm): stannides or platinides?, Inorg. Chem., 2020
Our patent on environmentally benign separation of rare earth elements has been issued today!
