Mechanical and electronic properties of diborides of transition 3d–5d metals from first principles: Toward search of novel ultra-incompressible and superhard materials

AL Ivanovskii - Progress in Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
The appreciable progress has been achieved currently in the development of design
principles, synthesis, investigations and predictions of various groups of ultra …

Valence electron concentration as an indicator for mechanical properties in rocksalt structure nitrides, carbides and carbonitrides

K Balasubramanian, SV Khare, D Gall - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
First-principles calculations are employed to determine the mechanical properties of rock-
salt structure binary and ternary transition metal nitrides, carbides, and carbonitrides from …

Enabling electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia at ambient conditions through rational catalyst design

Y Abghoui, AL Garden, VF Hlynsson… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Commercial design of a sustainable route for on-site production of ammonia represents a
potential economic and environmental breakthrough. In an analogous process to the …

Challenges and opportunities for nitrogen reduction to ammonia on transitional metal nitrides via Mars-van Krevelen mechanism

Z Qiao, D Johnson, A Djire - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021 - cell.com
Ammonia (NH 3) has a myriad of applications ranging from fertilizers to value-added
chemicals and fuels. More energy-efficient and environmentally friendly approaches are …

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 …

Computational predictions of catalytic activity of zincblende (110) surfaces of metal nitrides for electrochemical ammonia synthesis

Y Abghoui, E Skúlason - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017 - ACS Publications
Here we present comprehensive results of theoretical analyses conducted with density
functional theory on the (110) texture orientations of the zincblende structures of 23 …

High‐Pressure Synthesis of a Nitrogen‐Rich Inclusion Compound ReN8x N2 with Conjugated Polymeric Nitrogen Chains

M Bykov, E Bykova, E Koemets… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A nitrogen‐rich compound, ReN8⋅ x N2, was synthesized by a direct reaction between
rhenium and nitrogen at high pressure and high temperature in a laser‐heated diamond …

Structural, mechanical and electronic properties of 3d transition metal nitrides in cubic zincblende, rocksalt and cesium chloride structures: a first-principles …

ZTY Liu, X Zhou, SV Khare, D Gall - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We report systematic results from ab initio calculations with density functional theory on
three cubic structures, zincblende (zb), rocksalt (rs) and cesium chloride (cc), of the ten 3d …

Stabilization of polynitrogen anions in tantalum–nitrogen compounds at high pressure

M Bykov, E Bykova, AV Ponomareva… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of polynitrogen compounds is of great importance due to their potential as
high‐energy‐density materials (HEDM), but because of the intrinsic instability of these …

Insights of electronic structures, mechanical properties and thermal conductivities of TM5SiB2 (TM=V, Nb, and Ta) MAB phases

B Li, Y Duan, L Shen, M Peng, H Qi - Philosophical Magazine, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The electronic, elastic, and thermal properties of TM5SiB2 (TM= V, Nb, and Ta) MAB phases
are calculated herein using first-principles calculations. The obtained electronic structures …