Rubidium and Cesium Nitrides at Megabar Pressures

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In our recent investigations, we discovered a plethora of new rubidium–nitrogen and cesium–nitrogen compounds—i.e. a staggering 11 new solids—at pressures up to 50 GPa. However, no investigation on alkali metals–N systems beyond 60 GPa has been reported in the literature, and there is no doubt that many more new alkali metals polynitrides remain to be discovered at these higher pressures. Through the investigation of the Rb–N and Cs–N systems up to 180 GPa, this proposal aims at forming compounds comprised of new exotic nitrogen species and assessing their recovery to ambient conditions. The solids’ crystal structure will be determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, also employed to determine the novel materials’ stability domain and recoverability to ambient conditions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-1911530448
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/1911530448
Provenance
Creator Umbertoluca RANIERI ORCID logo; AKUN LIANG ORCID logo; James SPENDER ORCID logo; Lourenço CUNHA CARIANO FERNANDES TAVARES; Dominique LANIEL ORCID logo; Jonathan Wright ORCID logo; Qian ZHANG ORCID logo; Shae TJONG ORCID logo
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2027
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields