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
Affiliations
- Maxim Bykov
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
- Stella Chariton
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
- Hongzhan Fei
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
- Timofey Fedotenko
- Material Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions, Laboratory of Crystallography, University of Bayreuth
- Georgios Aprilis
- Material Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions, Laboratory of Crystallography, University of Bayreuth
- Alena V. Ponomareva
- Materials Modeling and Development Laboratory, National University of Science and Technology ‘MISIS’
- Ferenc Tasnádi
- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University
- Igor A. Abrikosov
- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University
- Benoit Merle
- Materials Science and Engineering, Institute I, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Martensstraβe. 5
- Patrick Feldner
- Materials Science and Engineering, Institute I, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Martensstraβe. 5
- Sebastian Vogel
- Chair in Inorganic Solid State Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Munich (LMU)
- Wolfgang Schnick
- Chair in Inorganic Solid State Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Munich (LMU)
- Vitali B. Prakapenka
- Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago
- Eran Greenberg
- Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago
- Michael Hanfland
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- Anna Pakhomova
- Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
- Hanns-Peter Liermann
- Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
- Tomoo Katsura
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
- Natalia Dubrovinskaia
- Material Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions, Laboratory of Crystallography, University of Bayreuth
- Leonid Dubrovinsky
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10995-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
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.
