Chemistry under high pressure

M Miao, Y Sun, E Zurek, H Lin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020‏ - nature.com
Thanks to the development of experimental high-pressure techniques and methods for
crystal-structure prediction based on quantum mechanics, in the past decade, numerous …

Materials by design at high pressures

M Xu, Y Li, Y Ma - Chemical Science, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Pressure, a fundamental thermodynamic variable, can generate two essential effects on
materials. First, pressure can create new high-pressure phases via modification of the …

A map of the inorganic ternary metal nitrides

W Sun, CJ Bartel, E Arca, SR Bauers, B Matthews… - Nature materials, 2019‏ - nature.com
Exploratory synthesis in new chemical spaces is the essence of solid-state chemistry.
However, uncharted chemical spaces can be difficult to navigate, especially when materials …

Rh19: A high-spin super-octahedron cluster

Y Jia, CQ Xu, C Cui, L Geng, H Zhang, YY Zhang… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Probing atomic clusters with magic numbers is of supreme importance but challenging in
cluster science. Pronounced stability of a metal cluster often arises from coincident …

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 …

Synthesis of magnesium-nitrogen salts of polynitrogen anions

D Laniel, B Winkler, E Koemets, T Fedotenko… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
The synthesis of polynitrogen compounds is of fundamental importance due to their potential
as environmentally-friendly high energy density materials. Attesting to the intrinsic difficulties …

Stabilized nitrogen framework anions in the Ga–N system

H Zhai, R Xu, J Dai, X Ma, X Yu, Q Li… - Journal of the American …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Nitrogen-rich compounds have attracted significant fundamental and practical interest owing
to their ability to accommodate diverse nitrogen-bonding patterns and their feasibility as high …

Predictions on high-power trivalent metal pentazolate salts

K **a, J Yuan, X Zheng, C Liu, H Gao… - The Journal of …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
High-energy-density materials (HEDMs) have been intensively studied for their significance
in fundamental sciences and practical applications. Here, using the molecular crystal …

Pressure-stabilized high-energy-density alkaline-earth-metal pentazolate salts

K **a, X Zheng, J Yuan, C Liu, H Gao… - The Journal of …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Polynitrogen compounds especially pentazolate anion complexes recently have attracted
substantial attention due to their promising potential as high-energy-density materials. Here …

Barium–nitrogen phases under pressure: Emergence of structural diversity and nitrogen-rich compounds

B Huang, G Frapper - Chemistry of Materials, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Although the potential of polynitrogen as a high-energy density material (HEDM) has
attracted attention, the difficulty of preserving polynitrogen thwarts attempts to discover …