A computationally-guided non-equilibrium synthesis approach to materials discovery in the SrO–Al2O3–SiO2 phase field†
Abstract
Glass-crystallisation synthesis is coupled to probe structure prediction for the guided discovery of new metastable oxides in the SrO–Al2O3–SiO2 phase field, yielding a new ternary ribbon-silicate, Sr2Si3O8. In principle, this methodology can be applied to a wide range of oxide chemistries by selecting an appropriate non-equilibrium synthesis route.