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Reverse Microemulsion-mediated Synthesis of Monometallic and Bimetallic Early Transition Metal Carbide and Nitride Nanoparticles
Published on: November 27, 2015
Synthetic route to metal nitrides: high-pressure solid-state metathesis reaction
Li Lei1, Wenwen Yin, Xiaodong Jiang
1Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University , Chengdu 610065, China.
Abstract:
We report a general synthetic route to well-crystallized metal nitrides through a high-pressure solid-state metathesis reaction (HPSSM) between boron nitride (BN) and ternary metal oxide A(x)M(y)O(z) (A = alkaline or alkaline-earth metal and M = main group or transition metal). On the basis of the synthetic metal nitrides (Fe3N, Re3N, VN, GaN, CrN, and W(x)N) and elemental products (graphite, rhenium, indium, and cobalt metals), the HPSSM reaction has been systematically investigated with regard to its general chemical equation, reaction scheme, and characteristics, and its thermodynamic considerations have been explored by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Our results indicate that pressure plays an important role in the synthesis, which involves an ion-exchange process between boron and the metal ion, opening a new pathway for material synthesis.
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