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SUBMITTER: Laniel D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6778147 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20191004 1
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 related to their formation, only three polynitrogen ions, bulk stabilized as salts, are known. Here, magnesium and molecular nitrogen are compressed to about 50 GPa and laser-heated, producing two chemically simple salts of polynitrogen anions, MgN<sub>4</sub> and Mg<sub>2</sub>N<sub>4</sub>. Single-crystal ...[more]