Nitrogen-rich transition metal nitrides

A Salamat, AL Hector, P Kroll, PF McMillan - Coordination Chemistry …, 2013 - Elsevier
The solid state chemistry leading to the synthesis and characterization of metal nitrides with
N: M ratios> 1 is summarized. Studies of these compounds represent an emerging area of …

Synthesis of binary transition metal nitrides, carbides and borides from the elements in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell and their structure-property relations

A Friedrich, B Winkler, EA Juarez-Arellano… - Materials, 2011 - mdpi.com
Transition metal nitrides, carbides and borides have a high potential for industrial
applications as they not only have a high melting point but are generally harder and less …

A New Molybdenum Nitride Catalyst with Rhombohedral MoS2 Structure for Hydrogenation Applications

S Wang, H Ge, S Sun, J Zhang, F Liu… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen-rich transition-metal nitrides hold great promise to be the next-generation catalysts
for clean and renewable energy applications. However, incorporation of nitrogen into the …

Energetics of point defects in rocksalt structure transition metal nitrides: Thermodynamic reasons for deviations from stoichiometry

K Balasubramanian, SV Khare, D Gall - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
First principle calculations of point defect formation energies in group 3–6 transition metal
(Me) nitrides MeN x are employed to explain the thermodynamic reasons for the large …

Synthesis, crystal structure, and elastic properties of novel tungsten nitrides

S Wang, X Yu, Z Lin, R Zhang, D He, J Qin… - Chemistry of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Among transition metal nitrides, tungsten nitrides possess unique and/or superior chemical,
mechanical, and thermal properties. Preparation of these nitrides, however, is challenging …

Stability and strength of transition-metal tetraborides and triborides

RF Zhang, D Legut, ZJ Lin, YS Zhao, HK Mao… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
Using density functional theory, we show that the long-believed transition-metal tetraborides
(TB 4) of tungsten and molybdenum are in fact triborides (TB 3). This finding is supported by …

Stabilization of Guanidinate Anions [CN3]5− in Calcite‐Type SbCN3

L Brüning, N Jena, E Bykova, PL Jurzick… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The stabilization of nitrogen‐rich phases presents a significant chemical challenge due to
the inherent stability of the dinitrogen molecule. This stabilization can be achieved by …

The hardest superconducting metal nitride

S Wang, D Antonio, X Yu, J Zhang, AL Cornelius… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Transition–metal (TM) nitrides are a class of compounds with a wide range of properties and
applications. Hard superconducting nitrides are of particular interest for electronic …

Stabilization of polynitrogen anions in tantalum–nitrogen compounds at high pressure

M Bykov, E Bykova, AV Ponomareva… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of polynitrogen compounds is of great importance due to their potential as
high‐energy‐density materials (HEDM), but because of the intrinsic instability of these …

First-principles investigation of the structural, mechanical and electronic properties of the NbO-structured 3d, 4d and 5d transition metal nitrides

ZTY Liu, X Zhou, D Gall, SV Khare - Computational materials science, 2014 - Elsevier
We have performed ab initio calculations on 29 nitride phases of transition metals from the
3d, 4d and 5d rows, in NbO structure. We calculated cohesive energy, lattice constant and …