Growth and exploration of new <i>p</i>-block rich intermetallics

Growing and exploring new materials is crucial for the advancement of modern technology, and intermetallics are attractive due to their wide variety of properties, such as, e.g., superconductivity, topology, magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc. We focus on using p-block elements as a flux for growth of single crystals and have successfully synthesized materials such as SmMnBi₂, Sm₂Mn₁₃Bi₅, Co_xMn_1-xGa₃, and Cu₇Nb₃Zn₁₀. Here, we report on the synthesis, characterization, and exploration of properties of these new materials.