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Our group has published a new paper in Chemistry – A European Journal reporting the discovery of a new family of alkali chromium tellurides, A₂.₄Cr₈Te₁₄ (A = Rb, Cs), synthesized via self-flux growth.

Our group has published a new paper in CrystEngComm on the synthesis of high-quality crystals of RhSeCl, a rare intrinsic Janus material with prospects for spintronics and optoelectronics. Janus materials feature two chemically distinct surfaces and an inherent out-of-plane polarity, but growing...

On January 11, 2026, our group participated in the Swiss Chemical Landmark ceremony in Arosa, marking 100 years since Erwin Schrödinger spent his Christmas vacation in this Alpine village and developed the equation that bears his name and laid the foundations of quantum mechanics.

We are pleased to announce that our new paper “Tailoring optical and ferroelectric properties in Sb₁₋ₓBiₓSI van der Waals chalcohalides towards solar absorber applications” has just been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

We were honored to host this year’s Flack Lecturer -- an annual award offered by the Swiss Society for Crystallography -- Prof. Robert M. Hazen, from the Carnegie Institution for Science, at the University of Geneva. Prof. Hazen delivered an inspiring lecture that explored the origins and...

We are delighted to share our newest publication entitled “Stoichiometry and Phase Control in K₁₋ₓCrSe₂ via Self-Flux Synthesis”. link

At the 19th European Conference on Solid State Chemistry (ECSSC-19) held in Málaga, Anastasiia Lukovkina receives the award for the Best Talk for her presentation entitled “Suppression of the Long-Range Magnetic Order of FeI by Cobalt Substitution.”

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