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# Revisiting the Cocktail Effect in High-Entropy Layered Double Hydroxides: Linear Additivity Rather than Emergent Behavior

## Details

**Authors** Maluangnont et al.

**Year** 2026

**Publisher** Inorganic Chemistry

**Discipline** Materials Science

[Read it at the publisher](https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6c03678) 
10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6c03678

## In authors' words

### What they found (results)

Across eight binary-to-high-entropy layered double hydroxide compositions, dielectric relaxation times and DFT-computed band gaps followed composition-weighted linear additivity from the binary end-members rather than showing emergent, non-additive behavior.

## Commentary

### In short

The whole compound's electronic and dielectric properties reduce cleanly to a composition-weighted combination of its parts, a direct quantitative test of whether a system's behavior is more than the sum of its parts.

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**Added** 2026-09-10

**How to cite this** Maluangnont et al. (2026). Revisiting the Cocktail Effect in High-Entropy Layered Double Hydroxides: Linear Additivity Rather than Emergent Behavior. Inorganic Chemistry.