“…1 Examples of such compounds include vanadium nitride (VN), 2,3 titanium nitride (TiN), 4,5 and chromium nitride (CrN). 6,7 The aforementioned materials have the ability to manifest in three distinct crystal structures (see Fig. 1), namely face-centered cubic (fcc), hexagonally close-packed (hcp), and simple hexagonal (hex).…”