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Jul 2026
Self-organized vacancy order in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>Pr</mml:mi> <mml:mn>9</mml:mn> </mml:m
In this work, we report the discovery of a new crystal structure on the Ge-rich side of the Pr-Ge binary phase diagram. Using a high-temperature flux technique, we grew single crystals of $Pr_9Ge_{16}$, which adopt a previously unreported orthorhombic $Fdd$2 structure type featuring ordered Ge vacancies. We present the...
Jayashani S. T. Wickramasinghe, Melissa G. Anderson, Kelci Graville et al.
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