Daviti Gochitashvili

High-Tc AgxBC and CuxBC superconductors accessible via topochemical reactions Hole-doping of covalent materials has long served as a blueprint for designing conventional high-Tc superconductors, but thermodynamic constraints severely limit the space of realizable compounds. Our ab initio results indicate that metastable AgxBC and CuxBC phases can be accessed via standard topochemical ion exchange reactions starting from LixBC precursors.