Revealing Phosphorus Nitrides up to the Megabar Regime: Synthesis of α′‐P3N5, δ‐P3N5 and PN2Show others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Chemistry - A European Journal, ISSN 0947-6539, E-ISSN 1521-3765, Vol. 28, no 62, article id e202201998Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Non-metal nitrides are an exciting field of chemistry, featuring a significant number of compounds that can possess outstanding material properties. These properties mainly rely on maximizing the number of strong covalent bonds, with crosslinked XN6 octahedra frameworks being particularly attractive. In this study, the phosphorus-nitrogen system was studied up to 137 GPa in laser-heated diamond anvil cells, and three previously unobserved phases were synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy measurements and density functional theory calculations. delta-P3N5 and PN2 were found to form at 72 and 134 GPa, respectively, and both feature dense 3D networks of the so far elusive PN6 units. The two compounds are ultra-incompressible, having a bulk modulus of K-0=322 GPa for delta-P3N5 and 339 GPa for PN2. Upon decompression below 7 GPa, delta-P3N5 undergoes a transformation into a novel alpha -P3N5 solid, stable at ambient conditions, that has a unique structure type based on PN4 tetrahedra. The formation of alpha -P3N5 underlines that a phase space otherwise inaccessible can be explored through materials formed under high pressure.
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2022. Vol. 28, no 62, article id e202201998
Keywords [en]
high-pressure high-temperature synthesis; non-metal nitrides; PN6 octahedra; synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction; ultra-incompressibility
National Category
Materials Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-188012DOI: 10.1002/chem.202201998ISI: 000868832300001PubMedID: 35997073OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-188012DiVA, id: diva2:1692388
Note
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [LA-4916/1-1]; UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship grant [MR/V025724/1]; Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF) [05K19WC1]; DFG [DU 954-11/1, DU 393-9/2, DU 393-13/1]; Swedish Government Strategic Research Areas in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoping University [2009 00971]; Swedish Research Council (VR) [2019-05600]; VINN Excellence Center Functional Nanoscale Materials (FunMat-2) [2016-05156]; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [KAW-2018.0194]; LUMI at the IT Center for Science (CSC), Finland [SNIC 2021/37-10]; Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) using Dardel at the PDC Center for High Performance Computing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology [SNIC 2022/6-10]; DFG under Germanys Excellence Strategy [EXC 2089/1-390776260]
2022-09-012022-09-012024-01-08Bibliographically approved