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Strengthening hydrophilicity in covalent-organic frameworks to boost CO2 photoreduction
Si-Zhan Feng†, Chong-Jiu Lu†, Ji-Hua Deng*, Tong-Bu Lu, Di-Chang Zhong* Submit a Manuscript
Strengthening hydrophilicity in covalent-organic frameworks to boost CO2 photoreduction
Si-Zhan Feng†, Chong-Jiu Lu†, Ji-Hua Deng*, Tong-Bu Lu, Di-Chang Zhong* Submit a Manuscript
BaM2Si7As12 (M = Ga, In): Arsenide infrared nonlinear optical crystals via an adding phase strategy
Shusen Yang, Xuemei Shi, Bingxuan Li, Guang Peng, Ning Ye*, Jindong Chen*
Chin. J. Struct. Chem., 2026, 45(10), 101002. DOI: 10.1016/j.cjsc.2026.101002
October 1, 2026
SHG; Adding phase; Nonlinear optical; Arsenides; Tetrahedral ordering
ABSTRACT
The exploration on novel arsenide infrared (IR) nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals remains a central challenge due to the lack of rational structure design strategies. By adding phase strategy, we successfully synthesized two new non-centrosymmetric arsenides BaGa2Si7As12 (BGSA) and BaIn2Si7As12 (BISA) with tetrahedra-ordered BaSi7P10 as a template phase. BGSA and BISA exhibits giant SHG responses (2.6 and 3.7 × ZGP), broad IR transparency range (cutoff edge up to 12.2 μm), and moderate birefringence (0.077 and 0.096), indicating they are potential long-wave IR NLO materials. They represent the first successful synthesis of tetrahedra-ordered arsenides of A-M-As system. First-principles calculations reveal that both BGSA and BISA achieve a concurrent enhancement in both the NLO coefficients and the band gaps compared to the hypothetical BaSi7As10 (the isomorphism to BaSi7P10). The enhanced NLO coefficients are attributed to the elevated F × n/V, the product of the average flexibility and density of the tetrahedral groups. The enlarged band gaps are attributed to the increased average coordination number of the As atoms.
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