The nitrides of most of the group IVb-Vb-VIb transition metals (TiN, ZrN, HfN, VN, NbN, TaN,
MoN, WN) constitute the unique category of conductive ceramics. Having substantial …

Over the past decades, enormous effort has been dedicated to enhancing the hardness of
refractory ceramic materials. Typically, however, an increase in hardness is accompanied by …

Twelve different equiatomic five-metal carbides of group IVB, VB, and VIB refractory
transition metals are synthesized via high-energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering …

High-entropy ceramics have potential to improve the mechanical properties and high-
temperature stability over traditional ceramics, and high entropy nitrides and carbonitrides …

First-principles calculations are employed to determine the mechanical properties of rock-
salt structure binary and ternary transition metal nitrides, carbides, and carbonitrides from …

Simultaneously hard and tough nitride ceramics open new venues for a variety of advanced
applications. To produce such materials, attention is focused on the development of high …

Abstract Nanoscale multilayered TiN/SiC films are of great importance in many electronic
and industrial fields. The careful control over the structure of the laminates, nanocrystalline …

Most commonly known hard transition-metal nitrides crystallize in rocksalt structure (B1). The
discovery of ultraincompressible pyrite-type PtN 2 10 years ago has raised a question about …

We use density functional theory calculations to explore the effects of alloying cubic TiN and
VN with transition metals M= Nb, Ta, Mo or W at 50% concentrations. The ternary systems …

Bottom-up design of high-entropy ceramics is a promising approach for realizing materials
with unique combination of high hardness and fracture-resistance at elevated temperature …