{"id":92323,"date":"2019-06-19T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/collaborative-research-charts-course-to-hundreds-of-new-nitrides"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:03:40","slug":"collaborative-research-charts-course-to-hundreds-of-new-nitrides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/collaborative-research-charts-course-to-hundreds-of-new-nitrides","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative research charts course to hundreds of new nitrides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/collaborative-research-charts-course-to-hundreds-of-new-nitrides.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andriy Zakutayev knows the odds of a scientist stumbling across a new nitride mineral are about the same as a ship happening upon a previously undiscovered landmass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you find any <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nitride<\/a> in nature, it\u2019s probably in a meteorite,\u201d said Zakutayev, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE\u2019s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).<\/p>\n<p>Formed when metallic elements combine with nitrogen, nitrides can possess unique properties with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/potential+applications\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">potential applications<\/a> spanning from semiconductors to industrial coatings. One nitride semiconductor served as the cornerstone of a Nobel Prize-winning technology for light-emitting diodes (LEDs). But before nitrides can be put to use, they first must be discovered\u2014and now, researchers have a map to guide them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andriy Zakutayev knows the odds of a scientist stumbling across a new nitride mineral are about the same as a ship happening upon a previously undiscovered landmass. \u201cIf you find any nitride in nature, it\u2019s probably in a meteorite,\u201d said Zakutayev, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE\u2019s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}