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Phase engineering of nitride thin films

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Thermodynamically-stable layered cation-ordered 2D-like nitrides can be synthesized using kinetically-limited thin-film deposition methods.

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Fig. 1: 3D-to-2D phase engineering for the nitride thin films.

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  2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Functional Materials, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, People’s Republic of China

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