Scientists find way to make new materials for batteries, magnets and microelectronics

https://www.anl.gov/article/making-the-unimaginable-possible-in-materials-discovery

"layered structure of sodium, barium, oxygen, copper and sulfur... discovery method yielded 30 previously unknown compounds; ten have structures never seen before... method can be applied to almost any crystalline solid, and to producing many different crystal structures... beamline 17-BM-B of the APS... track evolution of structures for different chemical phases formed during the reaction process... multiple stacked layers, single layer an atom thick and chains of molecules that are not linked"