Nitridosilicates ‐ High Temperature Materials with Interesting Properties

Systematic investigations enabled a broad synthetic access to the nitridosilicate class of compounds. Typical building blocks in these compounds are SiN4tetrahedra, which may be linked via common vertices forming complex network structures. The first results suggest that the structural variabilities of nitridosilicates are more versatile as compared to the oxosilicates. Highly cross-linked network structures are accessible, which cause the remarkable stability of nitridosilicates.