Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

High-pressure synthesis of ultraincompressible hard rhenium nitride pernitride Re2(N2)(N)2 stable at ambient conditions

  • Maxim Bykov,
  • Stella Chariton,
  • Hongzhan Fei,
  • Timofey Fedotenko,
  • Georgios Aprilis,
  • Alena V. Ponomareva,
  • Ferenc Tasnádi,
  • Igor A. Abrikosov,
  • Benoit Merle,
  • Patrick Feldner,
  • Sebastian Vogel,
  • Wolfgang Schnick,
  • Vitali B. Prakapenka,
  • Eran Greenberg,
  • Michael Hanfland,
  • Anna Pakhomova,
  • Hanns-Peter Liermann,
  • Tomoo Katsura,
  • Natalia Dubrovinskaia,
  • Leonid Dubrovinsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10995-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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High pressure experiments may yield materials with unusual combinations of properties, but typically in small amounts and unstable. Here the authors synthesize millimeter-sized samples of metallic, ultraincompressible and very hard rhenium nitride pernitride, recoverable at ambient conditions.