One thing that I sometimes do, at least on the old MP site, is scroll to the bottom of the page for a material and click Show BibTeX Citation. I believe this shows the literature reference associated with each ICSD id corresponding to the material. That tends to be a good starting point for materials that have been previously experimentally synthesized. Then I will go down the usual rabbit hole of looking for papers that have cited those papers, and so on… 
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