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The Hardest Superconducting Metal Nitride
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Wang S
; Antonio D
; Yu X
; Zhang J
; Cornelius AL
; He D
; Zhao Y
Sci Rep
2015[Sep]; 5
(ä): 13733
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Transition-metal (TM) nitrides are a class of compounds with a wide range of
properties and applications. Hard superconducting nitrides are of particular
interest for electronic applications under working conditions such as coating and
high stress (e.g., electromechanical systems). However, most of the known TM
nitrides crystallize in the rock-salt structure, a structure that is unfavorable
to resist shear strain, and they exhibit relatively low indentation hardness,
typically in the range of 10-20?GPa. Here, we report high-pressure synthesis of
hexagonal ?-MoN and cubic ?-MoN through an ion-exchange reaction at 3.5?GPa. The
final products are in the bulk form with crystallite sizes of 50 - 80??m. Based
on indentation testing on single crystals, hexagonal ?-MoN exhibits excellent
hardness of ~30?GPa, which is 30% higher than cubic ?-MoN (~23?GPa) and is so far
the hardest among the known metal nitrides. The hardness enhancement in hexagonal
phase is attributed to extended covalently bonded Mo-N network than that in cubic
phase. The measured superconducting transition temperatures for ?-MoN and cubic
?-MoN are 13.8 and 5.5?K, respectively, in good agreement with previous
measurements.