From Air to Explosive: How Scientists Broke Nitrogen’s Triple Bond Curse

The Deep Dive Lab: Unraveling Materials Science
12/12/2025 13 min

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For a century, nitrogen’s N≡N triple bond resisted every attempt at taming. Now, chemists have beaten the odds by forming hexanitrogen (N₆), a room-temperature–stable nitrogen allotrope with explosive potential far beyond TNT. We dig into the science behind the breakthrough and the futuristic nitrogen structures now on the horizon.📄 Source paper: Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C₂h-N₆. Nature 642, 356–360 (2025)🧪⚗️💣#MoleculeOfTheYear #N6 #MaterialsScience #Explosives #ChemicalEngineering

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