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ArticleNature materials2019

A map of the inorganic ternary metal nitrides.

Wenhao Sun, Christopher J Bartel, Elisabetta Arca, Sage R Bauers, Bethany Matthews, Bernardo Orvañanos, Bor-Rong Chen, Michael F Toney, Laura T Schelhas, William Tumas and 5 more

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Article in Nature materials, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61 citing papers in PubMed.

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15 authors.

Wenhao SunMaterials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. wenhaosun@lbl.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8416-455X
Christopher J BartelDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Elisabetta ArcaNational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.
Sage R BauersNational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.
Bethany MatthewsDepartment of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
Bernardo OrvañanosDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Bor-Rong ChenSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Michael F ToneySLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7513-1166
Laura T SchelhasSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2299-1864
William TumasNational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.
Janet TateDepartment of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7555-7151
Andriy ZakutayevNational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.
Stephan LanyNational Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8127-8885
Aaron M HolderDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. Aaron.Holder@colorado.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1878-1541
Gerbrand CederMaterials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exploratory synthesis in new chemical spaces is the essence of solid-state chemistry. However, uncharted chemical spaces can be difficult to navigate, especially when materials synthesis is challenging. Nitrides represent one such space, where stringent synthesis constraints have limited the exploration of this important class of functional materials. Here, we employ a suite of computational materials discovery and informatics tools to construct a large stability map of the inorganic ternary metal nitrides. Our map clusters the ternary nitrides into chemical families with distinct stability and metastability, and highlights hundreds of promising new ternary nitride spaces for experimental investigation-from which we experimentally realized seven new Zn- and Mg-based ternary nitrides. By extracting the mixed metallicity, ionicity and covalency of solid-state bonding from the density functional theory (DFT)-computed electron density, we reveal the complex interplay between chemistry, composition and electronic structure in governing large-scale stability trends in ternary nitride materials.

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