Interstitial and substitutional light elements in transition metals for heterogeneous catalysis

T Chen, C Foo, SCE Tsang - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The addition of foreign element dopants to monometallic nanoparticle catalysts is of great
importance in industrial applications. Both substitutional and interstitial doping of pure …

Recent progress on transition metal nitrides nanoparticles as heterogeneous catalysts

AB Dongil - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
This short review aims at providing an overview of the most recent literature regarding
transition metal nitrides (TMN) applied in heterogeneous catalysis. These materials have …

Realization of an Ideal Cairo Tessellation in Nickel Diazenide NiN2: High-Pressure Route to Pentagonal 2D Materials

M Bykov, E Bykova, AV Ponomareva, F Tasnadi… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Most of the studied two-dimensional (2D) materials are based on highly symmetric
hexagonal structural motifs. In contrast, lower-symmetry structures may have exciting …

Fe-N system at high pressure reveals a compound featuring polymeric nitrogen chains

M Bykov, E Bykova, G Aprilis, K Glazyrin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Poly-nitrogen compounds have been considered as potential high energy density materials
for a long time due to the large number of energetic N–N or N= N bonds. In most cases high …

Thermodynamic routes to novel metastable nitrogen-rich nitrides

W Sun, A Holder, B Orvañanos, E Arca… - Chemistry of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Compared to oxides, the nitrides are relatively unexplored, making them a promising
chemical space for novel materials discovery. Of particular interest are nitrogen-rich nitrides …

A novel superhard tungsten nitride predicted by machine-learning accelerated crystal structure search

K Xia, H Gao, C Liu, J Yuan, J Sun, HT Wang, D Xing - Science bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Transition metal nitrides have been suggested to have both high hardness and good
thermal stability with large potential application value, but so far stable superhard transition …

Electronic and bonding analysis of hardness in pyrite-type transition-metal pernitrides

ZTY Liu, D Gall, SV Khare - Physical review B, 2014 - APS
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 …

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 …

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

M Bykov, S Chariton, H Fei, T Fedotenko… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
High-pressure synthesis in diamond anvil cells can yield unique compounds with advanced
properties, but often they are either unrecoverable at ambient conditions or produced in …

Hydrothermal synthesis of palladium nitrides as robust multifunctional electrocatalysts for fuel cells

R Guo, K Zhang, Y Liu, Y He, C Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Tremendous efforts have been devoted to exploring high-performance electrocatalysts for
fuel cells, but the achievements in catalytic activity and durability are still far from satisfactory …