Title
Nonconductive layered hexagonal boron nitride exfoliation by bipolar electrochemistry
Date Issued
21 April 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Publisher(s)
Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract
Boron nitride (h-BN), which is an isoelectronic analogue of graphite, has received immense attention due to its unique physical and chemical properties. Numerous methods have been developed to isolate few-layered h-BN nanosheets. These include chemical vapour deposition, solution-based exfoliation and ball-milling amongst others. The bipolar electrochemical method is one of the popular, scalable and water based exfoliation methods which has been applied to graphite, layered transition metal dichalcogenides and black phosphorus. This method was not applied to insulators as this has been assumed to be an impossible task. In this study, we report a solution-based, scalable and time efficient bipolar electrochemical method for the direct exfoliation of bulk insulator, layered h-BN into few-layered h-BN nanosheets based on bipolar electrochemistry. The electrochemical exfoliation of nonconductive materials, h-BN, opens the way to the application of this scalable method to the whole spectrum of non-conductive layered materials. This facile method offers an alternative platform for h-BN electrochemical exfoliation in wide-ranging fields encompassing electronics and biomedical science.
Start page
7298
End page
7303
Volume
10
Issue
15
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-materiales
ElectroquÃmica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85045856522
PubMed ID
Source
Nanoscale
ISSN of the container
20403364
Sponsor(s)
M. P. acknowledges a Tier 1 grant (99/13) from the Ministry of Education, Singapore. Z. S. was supported by Czech Science Foundation (GACR no. 16-05167S) and by Neron foundation for science support. This work was supported by the project Advanced Functional Nanorobots (reg. no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/ 15_003/0000444 financed by the EFRR).
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