Chemistry Letters, Vol.32, No.3, 228-229, 2003
A thermal reduction-nitridation synthesis and ultraviolet-light emission of nanocrystalline VN
18 nm vanadium nitride (VN) nanocrystallites were synthesized through a reduction-nitridation reaction between VCl4, NH4Cl and metal Mg. The XRD showed the product was pure cubic VN (a = 4.14 Angstrom). Ultraviolet emissions at about 337 and 346 nm were observed from the nanocrystalline VN at room temperature.