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Mismatched lattices patched up

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Controlling interfaces between transition-metal oxides and dissimilar structures is crucial for practical applications, yet has remained a quandary. Now, a coherent interface that bridges a perovskite and a fluorite structure has been formed using judiciously chosen metal cations.

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Figure 1: Heteroepitaxy of non-isostructural oxides from eutaxy and flexible cation coordination chemistry.

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  1. Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier is in the Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA,

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  2. James M. Rondinelli is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA,

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Poeppelmeier, K., Rondinelli, J. Mismatched lattices patched up. Nature Chem 8, 292–294 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2477

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