This story was originally published by Laura Millsaps, with Ames Laboratory. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are being credited with creating the first intermetallic double salt with platinum. Materials researchers Anja-Verena Mudring and Volodymyr Smetana were the first to create and accurately characterize the compound. Cesium platinide hydride, or 4Cs2Pt⋅CsH, forms a …Continue reading “Iowa State, Ames Laboratory scientists create new compound, first intermetallic double salt with platinum”