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Hongyang Wang1,2, Hao Wu2,3, Yijing Zhao2,4
1State Key Laboratory of Mesoscience and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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Further constraints on material dimensionality are expected to allow for the emergence of more physical phases. However, the thermal stability of materials tends to decrease in lower dimensions. The quasi-one-dimensional structure within apatite offers an ideal framework for doping. Using copper-doped lead apatite as the foundational structure, further doping with non-metallic elements can induce transitions between insulating, semiconducting, metallic, and even superconducting states, as well as giving rise to diverse magnetic properties. This effectively creates a veritable 'zoo of physics'.
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