Issue 7, 2011
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Nanoscale

Formation of monolayer and few-layer hexagonal boron nitride nanosheetsvia surface segregation†

Mingsheng Xu,*ab   Daisuke Fujita,c   Hongzheng Chena  and  Nobutaka Hanagatade  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecule Synthesis and Functionalization, and Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
E-mail: msxu@zju.edu.cn

b International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

c Advanced Key Technology Research Division, National Institute for Materials Science, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

d Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

e Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Abstract

We report that few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets can be produced by using a surface segregation method. The formation of h-BN sheets is via an intermediate boron–nitrogen buffer layer. Our results suggest that surface segregation of boron and nitrogen from a solid source is an alternative approach to tailoring synthesis of h-BN sheets for potential applications such as in graphene electronics.

Graphical abstract: Formation of monolayer and few-layer hexagonal boron nitride nanosheetsvia surface segregation

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1NR10294J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Mar 2011
Accepted
22 Apr 2011
First published
24 May 2011

Nanoscale, 2011,3, 2854-2858

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Formation of monolayer and few-layer hexagonal boron nitride nanosheetsvia surface segregation

M. Xu, D. Fujita, H. Chen and N. Hanagata, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 2854 DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10294J

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