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Zirconium ntride is a hard ceramic material similar to titanium nitride

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What’s zirconium-nitride? ZrN, zirconium-nitride, has excellent corrosion resistance and high hardness. It is an attractive coating due to these properties. It is applied using physical vapor deposition. You can choose from a beautiful yellow or crystalline coating.

Physical and chemical properties include a density of 7.09, microhardness approximately 980019600MPa and a melting point of 29880 plus/minus 50°C. Zirconium nutride is not soluble or soluble at all in water. However, it can be dissolved in hydrofluoric and concentrated sulfuric acids. Due to its many properties, Zirconium Nitride (ZrN), can be used in many different ways.

ZrN is light-colored and has a similar appearance to elemental. ZrN’s room temperature resistivity is 12.0mO*cm. It has a temperature coefficient of resistance of 5.6*10-8O*cm/K. The superconducting temperature is 10.4K. And the relaxation lattice parameter of 0.4575nm. ZrN, single-crystal ZrN has a hardness of 22.7+-1.7 GPa. The elastic modulus is 450 GPa.
What’s the purpose of zirconium-nitride
Zirconium-nitride, a hard ceramic similar to titan nitride, is also a cement-like material and a refractory. This makes it suitable for laboratory crucibles as well as cermets and refractory materials. It is often used in coatings such as medical equipment and parts of the aerospace, automotive, and aviation industries. Al is alloyed with cubic ZrN, and the electronic structure results from this local octahedral-bond symmetry. The Al content will increase, which causes the symmetry to become more complex.
As a hydrogen-peroxide fuel tank liner for aircrafts or rockets, zirconium nutride should be used.

Zirconium-nitride compounds (ZrN), have crystal structures that change with their composition. The ZrN, Zr3N4 or c-Zr3N4 alloy compounds have been identified in Zr-N’s Zr-N system. Not only do they have great chemical properties, but they can also be used to make junctions, diffusion lams, and other low-temperature instruments. they can be used to make integrated three-dimensional electric coils or metal-based transistors. In addition, ZrN compounds have superior wear resistance as well as oxidation and corrosion resistance.

Making zirconium-nitride powder
Direct nitridation with Zr, nitrogen, high-energy reactive balls milling (RBM), microwave radiation method, aluminum reduction (MgR) and carbothermal reduction (CRN) are some of the methods used to synthesize zirconium. You can use these routes to produce different size and morphologies of particles. You can mass produce zirconium trioxide or other transition metal nitrides by using fibers, microspheres as well as membranes, blocks, and also have the option of manufacturing them in large quantities. Due to the formation of solid solution within the ZrN–ZrC–’ZrO” process, the final product nitriding is typically represented by Zr (N.C., O). A CRN process Requires two-step heat treatment. As an intermediate, Zirconium Carbide (ZrC), which is then made into Nitride, must be used. But, the CN procedure is the direct nitridation ZrO2 in presence of carbon. This requires only one heat treatment. In preparing zirconium nutride powder, the latter is likely to be faster and more cost-effective.

In oxygen reduction, zirconium Nitride catalyst is superior to platinum
Materials made of platinum (Pt), which are based on metal-air batteries and microelectronics sensors, have a significant role in the development of anti-cancer drugs, electrochemical energy converters equipment, as well as automotive catalytic convertors and microelectronics. While Pt is the most widely used catalyst for oxygen reduction (ORR), in fuel cells or metal-air battery, its scaleability and cost are limited. This paper shows that nano-particle zirconium (ZrN), which can also be used to catalyze ORR in alkaline environment, is able to replace and even surpass Pt. The ZrN nanoparticles are synthesized from carbon-supported platinum (Pt/C). They have similar activity to the Pt/C catalyst. The half-wave power of both materials is the same (E1/2 = 0.80 V), after 1000 ORR cycles. ZrN also has higher stability than Pt/C catalysts (DE1/2 than =-3 mV; DE1/2 =-3 mV). KOH: 0.1 M ZrN is also more efficient than Pt/C when used in zinc-air battery batteries. ZrN is a cost-saving option that can replace Pt/C. ZrN also has a higher power density and cycle capability than Pt/C. ZrN might be helpful in other catalytic methods.
Photoluminescence enhanced with zirconium-nitride nanoparticles.
Due to their good optical properties in plasma technology, noble metals such as gold are routinely employed. Although the melting point of gold is quite low (especially in cases of nanoscale), the amount of gold found in the earth’s surface is extremely low. The material limitations prevent the exploration of plasmons for multiple fields. These plasmons are highly suitable as substitutes for metal nitrides because they have excellent mechanical and thermal stability. Zirconium-nitride is an attractive alternative to titanium nitride. In fact, its carrier density exceeds that of TiN. Additionally, titanium nitride is considered the most researched gold supplementary material. This study fabricated ZrN nanoparticles in a periodic arrangement. The array increased the intensity of organic dyes by 9.7x. These experiments proved that ZrN could be used to develop and improve plasmons as well as to overcome limitations inherent in gold.

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