Ternary intermetallic Heusler compounds, originally discovered by a German mining engineer and chemist in 1903, may show exotic topological insulator behaviour unknown to science just five years ago.
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Franz, M. Starting a new family. Nature Mater 9, 536–537 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2783
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