Iron nitrides are nothing new. Nitriding processes, such as gas nitriding by exposing heated steel to ammonia, have been used for steel finishing for more than a century.

The new nitrides research follows several years of investigating metastable materials and the potential to use them in various technologies, including semiconductors.

Nitrides represent one such space, where stringent synthesis constraints have limited the exploration of this important class of functional materials. Here, we employ a suite of computational ...

The family of 2D transition metal carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides (collectively referred to as MXenes) has expanded rapidly since the discovery of Ti3C2 in 2011. The materials reported so far ...

One of them is graphitic carbon nitride, also called carbon nitride (CN), which is simply based on carbon and nitrogen forming a polymeric structure. This metal-free semiconductor offers high chemical ...

“The novel carbon nitrides are unique among high-pressure materials, as being produced above 100 GPa they are recoverable in air at ambient conditions.” The research was published in the ...

Chemists have successfully synthesized Ruddlesden-Popper nitrides for the first time, opening the door to new materials with unique properties. LMU chemists have successfully synthesized ...

Nitrides thrive despite challenges. 28 Jan 2009. Tough challenges still have to be solved, nitride guru tells a packed audience at Photonics West. By Richard Stevenson in San Jose, California. Klaus ...

Metal nitrides such as titanium nitride, which offer both high conductivity and capacitance, are a promising alternative, but they tend to oxidize in watery environments that limits their lifetime ...

Purdue University researchers found that by tailoring the film thickness of conducting nitrides and oxides, specifically plasmonic titanium nitride (TiN) and aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO), they can ...

The development and understanding of efficient catalysts based on isolated metal centers stabilized on suitable hosts is a challenging task that has sparked the imagination of researchers worldwide.