in nanostructured ceramics which increases the scattering of phonons which leads to a decrease in its thermal conductivity and also because of porosities since the sample is not fully dense however using other consolidation techniques particularly pressure assisted sintering consolidation techniques including heat and shear stress consolidation a dense sample can be obtained the problem of inferior heat conductivity is also overcome if the fully dense nanostructured ceramic is annealed to allow for grain growth to occur and the decrease in grain boundaries will result in the restoration of bulk thermal conductivity the nanostructure nitride powder produced according to the present invention has a narrow size distribution having described the invention the following examples are given to illustrate specific applications of the invention including the best mode now known to perform the invention these specific examples are not intended to limit the scope of the invention described in this application aluminum tri sec butoxide was suspended in absolute ethanol while stirring a solution of distilled deionized water ethanol excess water was made into an aerosol with nitrogen and sprayed into the organo aluminum suspension the reactants were stirred for 30 minutes after the addition of the water solution and then filtered and washed with water once the precursor was filtered and dried in air it was.