@article{d000ca6b406b46fab4f8f8594c92f343,
title = "Topochemical synthesis of phase-pure Mo2AlB2 through staging mechanism",
abstract = "Phase-pure Mo2AlB2 with a single Al layer, a possible precursor for MBenes, was synthesized topochemically by the removal of an Al layer from MoAlB. Ab initio calculations predicted the sequential staging transformation from MoAlB through Mo4Al3B4 (stage II) to Mo2AlB2 (stage I).",
author = "Kijae Kim and Chi Chen and Daisuke Nishio-Hamane and Masashi Okubo and Atsuo Yamada",
note = "Funding Information: This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan under the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Elemental Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB){\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}. This work was also supported by MEXT, Japan; Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research No. 15H05701. M. O. was financially supported by MEXT, Japan; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 15H03873 and (A) No. 18H03924. A part of this work was conducted at Advanced Characterization Nanotechnology Platform of the University of Tokyo, supported by {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Nanotechnology Platform{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology (MEXT), Japan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1039/c9cc03855h",
language = "English",
volume = "55",
pages = "9295--9298",
journal = "Chemical Communications",
issn = "1359-7345",
publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry",
number = "63",
}