title: Ternary and higher pnictides; prospects for new materials and applications.
abstract: Discoveries of complex solid compounds of the group 15 elements have risen dramatically over the past 2 decades and within the last 10 years the potential offered by unusual and unexpected physical and chemical properties and phenomena are beginning to be realised in a materials context. This critical review highlights just some of the many areas in which ternary and higher pnictides are making an impact. A growing understanding of synthesis-structure-property relationships in nitrides, phosphides, arsenides and antimonides in particular has led to amazing progress over a very short space of time and provided insight that has proved to be transferrable to other areas of solid state and materials chemistry (254 references).
authors.affiliation: WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom G12 8QQ.
authors.forename: Jamie M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Yimin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Duncan H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Gregory
mesh_terms: D004553:Electric Conductivity; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004566:Electrodes; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D007287:Inorganic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D007287:Inorganic Chemicals; D006859:Hydrogen