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Nature Materials 3, 294–297 (1 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/nmat1115

Synthesis and characterization of a binary noble metal nitride

Eugene Gregoryanz , Chrystele Sanloup , M. Somayazulu , James Badro , Guillaume Fiquet , Ho-kwang Mao & Russell J. Hemley

There has been considerable interest in the synthesis of new nitrides because of their technological and fundamental importance. Although numerous metals react with nitrogen there are no known binary nitrides of the noble metals.