Synthetic pathway for promising nitride compounds discovered

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-synthetic-pathway-nitride-compounds.html

"Ruddlesden-Popper halides, oxides have layered structure useful as superconductors, catalysts, photovoltaics, now producible as nitrides... large-volume presses at 8 gigapascal pressure, then used sodium azide to prepare rare-earth transition-metal nitride compounds... hard ferromagnet with irreversible magnetic behavior. In addition, the tantalum compound is a semiconductor with properties that make it exciting for applications in the energy conversion domain or as a ferroelectric material"