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Nitride Spinel: An Ultraincompressible High-Pressure Form of BeP2 N4.

ABSTRACT: Owing to its outstanding elastic properties, the nitride spinel ?-Si3 N4 is of considered interest for materials scientists and chemists. DFT calculations suggest that Si3 N4 -analog beryllium phosphorus nitride BeP2 N4 adopts the spinel structure at elevated pressures as well and shows outstanding elastic properties. Herein, we investigate phenakite-type BeP2 N4 by single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction and report the phase transition into the spinel-type phase at 47?GPa and 1800?K in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. The structure of spinel-type BeP2 N4 was refined from pressure-dependent in situ synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction measurements down to ambient pressure, which proves spinel-type BeP2 N4 a quenchable and metastable phase at ambient conditions. Its isothermal bulk modulus was determined to 325(8)?GPa from equation of state, which indicates that spinel-type BeP2 N4 is an ultraincompressible material.

SUBMITTER: Vogel S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027884 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Nitride Spinel: An Ultraincompressible High-Pressure Form of BeP2 N4.

Vogel Sebastian S Bykov Maxim M Bykova Elena E Wendl Sebastian S Kloß Simon D SD Pakhomova Anna A Dubrovinskaia Natalia N Dubrovinsky Leonid L Schnick Wolfgang W

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20191107 7

Owing to its outstanding elastic properties, the nitride spinel γ-Si3 N4 is of considered interest for materials scientists and chemists. DFT calculations suggest that Si3 N4 -analog beryllium phosphorus nitride BeP2 N4 adopts the spinel structure at elevated pressures as well and shows outstanding elastic properties. Herein, we investigate phenakite-type BeP2 N4 by single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffractio ...[more]

PMID: 31596046

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