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

Maluangnont et al., 2026, Inorganic Chemistry — Materials Science

Patterns: [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems)

## 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.

## 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.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6c03678)