The ISNT2019 conference covered the following aspects of the chemistry and physics of nitrides:

• Theory and modelling
• Novel materials and synthetic approaches
• Crystal chemistry
• Thin films, sintering and metallurgy
• Glasses and glass-ceramics
• Silicon nitride and SiAlON ceramics

Figure: Casa de la Convalescència in Barcelona, where the ISNT2019 conference took place.

Contents of the proceedings

• Single-source-precursor synthesis and high-temperature evolution of novel mesoporous SiVN(O)-based ceramic nanocomposites
• Preparation and thermal stability of oxynitride perovskite solid solution Sr_1-xLa_xTa_1-xTi_xO₂N 
• Thermal oxidation of oxynitride films as a strategy to achieve (Sr₂Ta₂O₇)_100-x(La₂Ti₂O₇)_x based oxide perovskite films with x = 1.65
• Structural and photoelectrochemical properties of SrTaO₂N oxynitride thin films deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering 
• Low temperature heat capacity measurements of β-Si₃N₄ and γ-Si₃N₄: Determination of the equilibrium phase boundary between β-Si₃N₄ and γ-Si₃N₄ 
• Effect of cationic substitutions on the photoluminescence properties of Eu²⁺ doped SrCN₂ prepared by a facile C₃N₄ based synthetic approach 
• Thermochemistry of nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxides

The editors would like to thank all the conference participants and organizers, and the funding entities, for making the ISNT2019 conference possible and a great success. 

Reference:

10th International Symposium on Nitrides
Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Volume 40, Issue 16,
Pages 6279-6328 (December 2020)

Cover Figure: Group photo of the participants at the ISNT2019 conference, on 9-13 June 2020.