Novel layered lithium nitridonickelates; effect of Li vacancy concentration on N co-ordination geometry and Ni oxidation state

Abstract

New compounds in which nickel is substituted for lithium in lithium nitride show evidence of high lithium vacancy concentrations and an ordering of these vacancies to form new structural variants.

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