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High-Pressure Synthesis of Materials

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High-Pressure Crystallography

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High pressure-high temperature techniques are used to synthesise new solid state compounds and materials that can be developed for technological applications. Laboratory and synchrotron x-ray diffraction and optical spectroscopy are combined with ab initio calculations to determine the structures and properties of new materials. We describe recent work on major classes of new materials including boron-rich solids, transition metal nitride superconductors, nitride spinels and light element solids based in the C–N–H system using examples from our own work.

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PFM acknowledges support from EPSRC SRF EP/D07357X and Portfolio grant EP/D504782 (held jointly with C.R.A. Catlow and P. Barnes). The work reported for dwur-C2N3H forms part of the Ph.D. research of A. Salamat and K. Woodhead. New data on superconducting MoN and related oxynitride phases were obtained by Dr. E. Bailey at UCL.

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McMillan, P.F. (2010). High-Pressure Synthesis of Materials. In: Boldyreva, E., Dera, P. (eds) High-Pressure Crystallography. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9258-8_30

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