“…Significantly, a group of direct semiconductors, including main group nitrides GaN, InN, and their solid solutions with AlN, have become crucial in modern electronics for the development of blue-to-green light emitting diode (LED) and laser sources and, eventually, efficient phosphors for ever more affordable common-day white LED applications [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. In another spectrum, traditional ceramic applications that mainly utilize the materials’ mechanical and thermal properties are characteristic for many transition metal nitrides, including TiN, ZrN, and WN but incorporating also such main group compounds such as BN, AlN, and Si 3 N 4 (each of which already plays a significant role in various technologies) [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. Many emerging applications of simple and complex (alloyed and composite) nitrides exploit the synergy advantages of coexisting electronic and mechanical/thermal properties [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 13 ].…”