READ ME FILE For 'Towards the operational window for nitridic and carbidic palladium nanoparticles for directed catalysis' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2749 ReadMe Author: Peter Wells, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Lucy G Costley-Wood, Khaled Mohammed, Marina Carravetta, Donato Decarolis, Alexandre Goguet, Apostolos Kordatos, Reza Vakili, Haresh Manyar, Erin McPake, Chris - Kriton Skylaris, Paul Thompson, Emma K Gibson, Peter P. Wells Towards the operational window for nitridic and carbidic palladium nanoparticles for directed catalysis' ChemCatChem DOI:10.1002/cctc.202300870 Data supporting figures in the main text and ESI. Files: 'simpson_calcs_data1.fid', 'simpson_calcs_data2.fid', 'simpson_calcs_data3.fid', 'simpson_calcs_matlab.m' Description: Raw data for simpson calculations and matlab script for NMR Electric Field Gradient Calculations, related to Figure SI 1. Files: 'ssNMR_PdNx.opju' Description: Origin file containing data from solid-state 14N NMR measurements of palladium nitride and relevant references, related to Figure 2. Files: 'XANES_data.opju' Desription: Origin file containing XANES data in u(E) of Pd(0), PdHx, PdCx, PdNx, both formation and decomposition data. Imported after basic Athena processing (calibration,normalisation), related to Figure 1. Files: 'DFT_Data_22_8.zip' Description: Geometries, input files and pseudopotentials for the DFT calculations. Date of data collection: March 2021 - Jan 2023 Information about geographical location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Dataset available under a CC-BY licence Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K. Date: 22/08/23