Many of the materials needed, such as niobium nitride and tantalum nitride, are chemical combinations of the exotic metals tantalum and niobium with nitrogen and exist in crystalline form. Researchers ...

Tungsten, for example, still made the list in both metallic and carbide forms. Diamond, graphite, boron nitride joined that list, as did transition metals like molybdenum, tantalum, and rhenium.

But there were also a few surprises, such as a peculiar phase of tantalum nitride or other ceramics based on boron and nitrogen, that have never been tested for this application.

This feature article published in SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry briefly reviews recent advances by Li’s research group in improving the STH conversion efficiency of Ta3N5 photoanode using various ...

Tantalum is one of the rarest elements and has multiple stable isotopes. The least abundant tantalum isotope, Ta-180 is found naturally in a long-lived excited state, a feature unique to this isotope.

A team of geologists has made a groundbreaking discovery of tantalum deposits in the Sutlej River, located in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

What’s Tantalum? Know all about this rare metal just discovered in Sutlej river sand A team of researchers headed by Dr Resmi Sebastian, assistant professor of IIT Ropar from the Civil ...

Scientists present detailed experimental and theoretical results on ultrafast dynamics of coupled phonons in few-layer hexagonal boron nitride.