The small-bandgap semiconductors LnCd3P3 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr and Nd) are promising materials to study emergent phenomena from geometric frustration across bond, spin and charge degrees of freedom.
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Devarakonda, A. Materials reach new levels of frustration. Nat. Mater. 25, 6–7 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02442-0
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