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Abstract
Two-dimensional rare earth (RE)-based honeycomb lattice magnets provide a fertile platform for exploring exotic magnetic ground states in view of reduced spatial dimensionality and anisotropic exchange interactions, while the reported 2D honeycomb lattice materials are quite limited. Herein, we report a family of quasi-two-dimensional layered RE-based honeycomb lattice magnets RE2Te4O11 (RE = Gd-Er and Yb), where the magnetic honeycomb layers are well separated by nonmagnetic TeO4 polyhedra with large interlayer distances of 8.353-8.452 Å. Magnetic susceptibility characterizations reveal that all synthesized RE2Te4O11 (RE = Gd-Er and Yb) compounds exhibit dominant antiferromagnetic (AFM) interactions; three RE2Te4O11 (RE = Gd, Tb, and Dy) family members show magnetic transitions with Néel temperatures (TN) of 1.97, 3.61, and 2.52 K, respectively. For Tb2Te4O11, a field-induced spin-flop transition is observed below TN = 3.61 K in the isothermal magnetization M(B) curves. Based on the analysis of the magnetocaloric effect (MCE), a crossover behavior is observed from the inverse MCE at low fields (ΔB < 1.8 T) to conventional MCE at high fields (ΔB > 1.8 T) below the TN in Tb2Te4O11; this is in contrast to the conventional MCE in all measured field regions in other RE2Te4O11 compounds.
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Inorganic Chemistry publishes fundamental studies in all phases of inorganic chemistry. Coverage includes experimental and theoretical reports on quantitative studies of structure and thermodynamics, kinetics, mechanisms of inorganic reactions, bioinorganic chemistry, and relevant aspects of organometallic chemistry, solid-state phenomena, and chemical bonding theory. Emphasis is placed on the synthesis, structure, thermodynamics, reactivity, spectroscopy, and bonding properties of significant new and known compounds.