Europe's largest economy, Germany, recently activated an emergency plan to manage gas supplies that the natural gas could be rationed if supplies are disrupted or disrupted by a stand-off over Russian demands to pay for fuel in rubles.  

German Vice-Chancellor, minister of economy and climate protection, said Germany's gas supplies were secure for now, but he urged consumers and businesses to reduce consumption, saying "every kilowatt of electricity counts." 

Germany's gas network regulator can ration gas if supplies run short. Plants would be the first to be affected. Special treatment will be provided to private families, hospitals, and other important institutions.  

Half of Germany's 41.5 million households use natural gas for heating, and industry consumption accounts for a third of the country's 100 billion cubic meters of gas demand in 2021.  

The price of many energy and commodities like the Aluminum Niitride could be affected.

What is Aluminum Nitride?
Aluminum nitride, covalent bond compound, chemical formula is AIN, is an atomic crystal, belongs to diamond-like nitride, hexagonal system, wurtzite crystal structure, non-toxic, white or off-white.
The main features of Aluminum Nitride
AlN is stable up to 2200°C. The strength at room temperature is high, and the strength decreases slowly with the increase of temperature. Good thermal conductivity, small thermal expansion coefficient, is a good thermal shock material. It has strong corrosion resistance to molten metal, and is an ideal crucible material for casting pure iron, aluminum or aluminum alloy. Aluminum nitride is also an electrical insulator with good dielectric properties and is also promising as an electrical component. The aluminum nitride coating on the gallium arsenide surface protects it from ion implantation during annealing. Aluminum nitride is also a catalyst for the conversion of hexagonal boron nitride to cubic boron nitride. It reacts slowly with water at room temperature. It can be synthesized by aluminum powder in ammonia or nitrogen atmosphere at 800~1000℃, and the product is white to gray-blue powder. Or by the reaction of Al2O3-C-N2 system at 1600~1750℃, the product is off-white powder. Or prepared by vapor-phase reaction of aluminum chloride and ammonia. The coating can be synthesized by the vapor-phase deposition method of AlCl3-NH3 system.

Aluminum Nitride Properties
Other Names	Aluminium nitride
CAS No.	24304-00-5
Compound Formula	AlN
Molecular Weight	40.9882
Appearance	White to pale yellow powder
Melting Point	2200 °C
Boiling Point	2517 °C (dec.)
Density	2.9 to 3.3 g/cm3
Solubility in H2O	N/A
Electrical Resistivity	10 to 12 10x Ω-m
Poisson's Ratio	0.21 to 0.31
Specific Heat	780 J/kg-K
Thermal Conductivity	80 to 200 W/m-K
Thermal Expansion	4.2 to 5.4 µm/m-K
Young's Modulus	330 GPa
Exact Mass	40.9846
Monoisotopic Mass	40.9846

Aluminum Nitride AlN powder CAS 24304-00-5

The use of Aluminum Niitride
It is reported that most of the research today is developing a semiconductor (gallium nitride or alloy aluminum gallium nitride) based light emitting diode that operates in ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 250 nanometers. In May 2006, it was reported that an inefficient diode can emit light with a wavelength of 210 nm [1]. A single aluminum nitride crystal has an energy gap of 6.2 eV measured by the reflectance of vacuum ultraviolet rays. In theory, the energy gap allows some waves with wavelengths around 200 nanometers to pass through. But in commercial implementation, there are many difficulties to overcome. Aluminum nitride is used in optoelectronic engineering, including as dielectric layers in optical storage interfaces and electronic substrates, as chip carriers with high thermal conductivity, and for military applications.
Due to the properties of the piezoelectric effect of aluminum nitride, epitaxial stretching of aluminum nitride crystals is also used for surface acoustic wave detectors. The detectors are placed on silicon wafers. There are very few places where these thin films can be produced reliably.
Aluminum nitride ceramics have the characteristics of high room temperature and high temperature strength, small expansion coefficient and good thermal conductivity, and can be used as heat exchanger materials for high temperature structural parts.
Using aluminum nitride ceramics to resist the corrosion properties of iron, aluminum and other metals and alloys, it can be used as crucible and casting mold materials for smelting Al, Cu, Ag, Pb and other metals.
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