It seems as if the criterion for novelty of a material is its absence from the ICSD. This criterion is open to criticism (for example many known compounds are not in ICSD, especially disordered ones) but nonetheless, we will mostly use this criterion to assess the novelty of the A-lab synthesis products. As it seems as if the A-lab paper set the standard of a new material to be new crystallographic compound -not a new disordered version of a known one -we will test the claims to this standard too.