2003
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.68.195401
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Bonding in hard and elastic amorphous carbon nitride films investigated using15N,13C

Abstract: The nitrogen bonding in hard and elastic amorphous carbon nitride (a-CN x ) films is examined with 15 N, 13 C, and 1 H nuclear magnetic resonance ͑NMR͒ spectroscopy. Films were deposited by dc magnetron sputtering, in a pure nitrogen discharge on Si͑001͒ substrates at 300°C. Nanoindentation tests revealed an elastic recovery of 80%, a hardness of 5 GPa, and an elastic modulus of 47 GPa. The NMR results show that nitrogen bonding in this material is consistent with sp 2 hybridized nitrogen incorporated in an ar… Show more

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“…This signal could be a superposition of several possible structures. Comparing the values in the literature with our results, the signal at –310 ppm can be assigned as nitrogen in a h ‐BN unit14 and the signal near –290 ppm as nitrogen in a pyrrole like nitrogen structure 15. Graphitic or amorphous C 3 N 4 also can be one of the possible structures.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 80%
“…This signal could be a superposition of several possible structures. Comparing the values in the literature with our results, the signal at –310 ppm can be assigned as nitrogen in a h ‐BN unit14 and the signal near –290 ppm as nitrogen in a pyrrole like nitrogen structure 15. Graphitic or amorphous C 3 N 4 also can be one of the possible structures.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 80%
“…However, the alternative view, founded on the experimental data collected from polymerised heptazine (melon), attributes it to the protons of hydrogen-bonded water molecules [53,55]. The decrease of the intensity of this maximum under in-situ heat treatment at 150 °C in NMR apparatus is in accord with the above hypothesis [56]. Although adsorbed water is not a part of the structural PCN unit, the type of its interaction with PCN gives information about the state of the surface species in the photocatalysts.…”
Section: Figure 4 Tablementioning
confidence: 82%
“…When carbon surface bears hydroxyl groups, which generate water by thermal decomposition, as seen by water TPD for NH42 and NP75-873 ( Fig. 1), the XPS peak P3 could also be assigned to quaternary nitrogen resulting from weak pyridine protonation by adjacent or nearby located hydroxyl groups forming hydrogen bridge with the pyridinic nitrogen [31][32][33][34].…”
Section: Xps and Xanesmentioning
confidence: 99%