Li Yang, Chen Xinglong, Ok Kang Min
Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul, 04107, Republic of Korea.
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, 60439, USA.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Aug 4;58(63):8770-8773. doi: 10.1039/d2cc03495f.
A designed material with large birefringence and remarkable deep-ultraviolet transparency, KF·B(OH), has been discovered. The well-aligned [F·B(OH)] layers endow a very large bandgap (7.63 eV), comparably large birefringence (0.114 @1064 nm), and the reinforced interlayer bonding of 2.16 × KBeBOF.
