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Title: Chemical preparation and shock wave compression of carbon nitride precursors

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Ceramic Society; (USA)
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  1. KMS Fusion, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (USA)

Two synthetic routes have been developed to produce high-molecular-weight organic precursors containing a high weight fraction of nitrogen. One of the precursors is a pyrolysis residue of melamine-formaldehyde resin. The second precursor is the byproduct of an unusual low-temperature combustion reaction of tetrazole and its sodium salt. These precursors have been shock compressed under typical conditions for diamond and wurtzite boron nitride synthesis in an attempt to recover a new ultrahard carbon nitride. The recovered material has been analyzed by X-ray diffraction, FTIR, and Raman microprobe analysis. Diamond is present in the recovered material. This diamond is well ordered relative to diamond shock synthesized from carbonaceous starting materials.

OSTI ID:
6071385
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Ceramic Society; (USA), Vol. 73:7; ISSN 0002-7820
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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