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Bu Y, Kim BS. Green production of functionalized few-layer borophene decorated with cerium-doped iron oxide nanoparticles for repeatable hydrogen peroxide detection. Biosens Bioelectron 2024; 260:116448. [PMID: 38820720 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2024.116448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2024] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/27/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
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Functionalized few-layer borophene (FFB) was prepared using gallnut extract and coffee waste extract as natural exfoliating and stabilizing agents in an environmentally friendly ultrasonic and high shear exfoliation. Here, a facile precipitation method was employed to grow iron oxide nanoparticles doped with cerium (Ce-FeONPs) onto the surface of FFB. This intriguing combination of materials yielded Ce-FeONPs nanoparticles that exhibited exceptional peroxidase-like activity, efficiently catalyzing the conversion of 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) to a blue oxidized TMB (oxTMB) in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Additionally, the introduction of FFB contributes a reducibility effect to the catalytic oxidation of TMB, facilitating the restoration of the oxTMB to TMB. Thus, FFB-Ce-FeONPs showcase intriguing properties encompassing both oxidative and reductive characteristics, suggesting their potential as a reagent for repeated detection of H2O2. Moreover, a colorimetric sensing system enabled the liner detection of H2O2 spanning a concentration range from 0.08 to 1 mM, with a detection limit of 0.03 mM. Noteworthily, FFB-Ce-FeONPs demonstrated sustained efficacy over ten successive recycling cycles, as indicated by consistent slopes and observable color changes. In summary, this work reports the first application of nanoenzymes in repetitive H2O2 detection. Even after ten multiple cycles, the detection limit remains virtually unaltered, underscoring the robustness and enduring effectiveness of the engineered nanomaterial. The proposed simultaneous oxidation and reduction strategies for detecting H2O2 showed a commendable capability in ten cycles of H2O2 detection, thus providing a promising approach in the field of H2O2 detection.
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- Yingjie Bu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, Republic of Korea.
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Chakrabarty S, Jasuja K. Insights into the Unanticipated Chemical Reactivity of Functionalized Nanosheets Derived from TiB 2. Inorg Chem 2024; 63:1524-1536. [PMID: 38064651 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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Titanium diboride (TiB2) is a member of the AlB2-type layered metal boride family; the materials of this family are receiving renewed research interest owing to their amenability to nanoscaling. Earlier, we showed that TiB2 can be nanoscaled to yield quasi 2D nanostructures following a dissolution-recrystallization approach. This approach yielded nanosheets that were chemically functionalized with oxy-functional groups. Also, these nanosheets could inherently form a gel-like substance. In this work, we show that these functionalized nanosheets can interact with ascorbic acid in a way that first imparts a characteristic orange hue to the original yellowish nanosheet dispersion. Second, this interaction results in the loss of gel-like behavior of the nanosheet dispersion. We utilize several spectroscopic techniques such as UV-visible, FT-IR, NMR, EPR, XPS, and XANES to unravel this unexplored chemical interaction. The findings show that both titania as well as oxy-boron species react with ascorbic acid, leading to a profound modification of the nanosheets. This modification results in an augmented electrochemical response, implying that the modified nanosheets can be used in novel applications. This study is therefore a step toward gaining an even deeper understanding of the chemical opportunities that these nanoscaled borides can provide.
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- Satadru Chakrabarty
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, 382055 Gujarat, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, 382055 Gujarat, India
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Sukeri A, Panigrahi S, Ramanujam K. Sonochemically synthesized hydride-stabilized boron nanosheets via radical-assisted oxidative exfoliation for energy storage applications. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 60:176-179. [PMID: 37965951 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc04342h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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Metal-free hydride stabilized boron nanosheets (H-BNS) were prepared in an aqueous medium without using noble metal growth substrates via sonochemistry. The reducing ability of H-BNS was demonstrated with Au3+(aq) reduction, and its layered morphology is exploited for Li-ion battery (LIB) applications.
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- Anandhakumar Sukeri
- Clean Energy Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai - 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Clean Energy Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai - 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Clean Energy Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai - 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
- Advanced Centre for Energy Storage and Conversion-The Energy Consortium, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Khan K, Tareen AK, Iqbal M, Ye Z, Xie Z, Mahmood A, Mahmood N, Zhang H. Recent Progress in Emerging Novel MXenes Based Materials and their Fascinating Sensing Applications. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2206147. [PMID: 36755364 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202206147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Early transition metals based 2D carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides nanomaterials are known as MXenes, a novel and extensive new class of 2D materials family. Since the first accidently synthesis based discovery of Ti3 C2 in 2011, more than 50 additional compositions have been experimentally reported, including at least eight distinct synthesis methods and also more than 100 stoichiometries are theoretically studied. Due to its distinctive surface chemistry, graphene like shape, metallic conductivity, high hydrophilicity, outstanding mechanical and thermal properties, redox capacity and affordable with mass-produced nature, this diverse MXenes are of tremendous scientific and technological significance. In this review, first we'll come across the MXene based nanomaterials possible synthesis methods, their advantages, limitations and future suggestions, new chemistry related to their selected properties and potential sensing applications, which will help us to explain why this family is growing very fast as compared to other 2D families. Secondly, problems that help to further improve commercialization of the MXene nanomaterials based sensors are examined, and many advances in the commercializing of the MXene nanomaterials based sensors are proposed. At the end, we'll go through the current challenges, limitations and future suggestions.
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- Karim Khan
- School of Electrical Engineering & Intelligentization, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, 523808, China
- Shenzhen Nuoan Environmental & Safety Inc., Shenzhen, 518107, P. R. China
- Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Phosphorene and Optoelectronics, International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, 523808, China
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- Department of BioChemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, 421001, China
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- Shenzhen International Institute for Biomedical Research, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518116, China
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, Australia
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- School of Science, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Victoria, VIC 3001, Australia
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- Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Phosphorene and Optoelectronics, International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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Gunda H, Ray KG, Klebanoff LE, Dun C, Marple MAT, Li S, Sharma P, Friddle RW, Sugar JD, Snider JL, Horton RD, Davis BC, Chames JM, Liu YS, Guo J, Mason HE, Urban JJ, Wood BC, Allendorf MD, Jasuja K, Stavila V. Hydrogen Storage in Partially Exfoliated Magnesium Diboride Multilayers. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2205487. [PMID: 36470595 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202205487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Metal boride nanostructures have shown significant promise for hydrogen storage applications. However, the synthesis of nanoscale metal boride particles is challenging because of their high surface energy, strong inter- and intraplanar bonding, and difficult-to-control surface termination. Here, it is demonstrated that mechanochemical exfoliation of magnesium diboride in zirconia produces 3-4 nm ultrathin MgB2 nanosheets (multilayers) in high yield. High-pressure hydrogenation of these multilayers at 70 MPa and 330 °C followed by dehydrogenation at 390 °C reveals a hydrogen capacity of 5.1 wt%, which is ≈50 times larger than the capacity of bulk MgB2 under the same conditions. This enhancement is attributed to the creation of defective sites by ball-milling and incomplete Mg surface coverage in MgB2 multilayers, which disrupts the stable boron-boron ring structure. The density functional theory calculations indicate that the balance of Mg on the MgB2 nanosheet surface changes as the material hydrogenates, as it is energetically favorable to trade a small number of Mg vacancies in Mg(BH4 )2 for greater Mg coverage on the MgB2 surface. The exfoliation and creation of ultrathin layers is a promising new direction for 2D metal boride/borohydride research with the potential to achieve high-capacity reversible hydrogen storage at more moderate pressures and temperatures.
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- Harini Gunda
- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
- Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382355, India
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 1515 Eubank SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87185, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382355, India
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- Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Ave, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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Noguchi N, Ito SI, Hikichi M, Cho Y, Goto K, Kubo A, Matsuda I, Fujita T, Miyauchi M, Kondo T. Highly Dispersed Ni Nanoclusters Spontaneously Formed on Hydrogen Boride Sheets. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27238261. [PMID: 36500350 PMCID: PMC9736194 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27238261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Revised: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Hydrogen boride (HB) sheets are two-dimensional materials comprising a negatively charged hexagonal boron network and positively charged hydrogen atoms with a stoichiometric ratio of 1:1. Herein, we report the spontaneous formation of highly dispersed Ni nanoclusters on HB sheets. The spontaneous reduction reaction of Ni ions by the HB sheets was monitored by in-situ measurements with an ultraviolet-visible spectrometer. Acetonitrile solutions of Ni complexes and acetonitrile dispersions of the HB sheets were mixed in several molar ratios (the HB:Ni molar ratio was varied from 100:0.5 to 100:20), and the changes in the absorbance were measured over time. In all cases, the results suggest that Ni metal clusters grow on the HB sheets, considering the increase in absorbance with time. The absorbance peak position shifts to the higher wavelength as the Ni ion concentration increases. Transmission electron microscopy images of the post-reaction products indicate the formation of Ni nanoclusters, with sizes of a few nanometers, on the HB sheets, regardless of the preparation conditions. These highly dispersed Ni nanoclusters supported on HB sheets will be used for catalytic and plasmonic applications and as hydrogen storage materials.
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- Natsumi Noguchi
- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8574, Japan
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- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
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- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
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- School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8574, Japan
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- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8581, Japan
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, 185 Miyanokuchi, Tosayamada, Kami 782-8502, Japan
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- School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
- Correspondence: (M.M.); (T.K.)
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- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
- R&D Center for Zero CO2 Emission Functional Materials and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
- The Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
- Correspondence: (M.M.); (T.K.)
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Yang M, Jin H, Sun Z, Gui R. Monoelemental two-dimensional boron nanomaterials beyond theoretical simulations: From experimental preparation, functionalized modification to practical applications. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 304:102669. [PMID: 35429719 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2022.102669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 03/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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During the past decade, there is an explosive growth of theoretical and computational studies on 2D boron-based nanomaterials. In terms of extensive predictions from theoretical simulations, borophene, boron nanosheets and 2D boron derivatives show excellent structural, electronic, photonic and nonlinear optical characteristics, and potential applications in a wide range of fields. In recent years, previous studies have reported the successful experimental preparations, superior properties, multi-functionalized modifications of various 2D boron and its derivatives, which show many practical applications in significant fields. To further promote the ever-increasing experimental studies, this present review systematically summarizes recent progress on experimental preparation methods, functionalized modification strategies and practical applications of 2D boron-based nanomaterials and multifunctional derivatives. Firstly, this review summarizes the experimental preparation methods, including molecular beam epitaxy, chemical vapor deposition, liquid-phase exfoliation, chemical reaction, and other auxiliary methods. Then, various strategies for functionalized modification are introduced overall, focusing on borophene derivatives, boron-based nanosheets, atom-introduced, chemically-functionalized borophene and boron nanosheets, borophene or boron nanosheet-based heterostructures, and other functionalized 2D boron nanomaterials. Subsequently, various potential applications are discussed in detail, involving energy storage, catalysis conversion, photonics, optoelectronics, sensors, bio-imaging, biomedicine therapy, and adsorption. We comment the state-of-the-art related studies concisely, and also discuss the current status, probable challenges and perspectives rationally. This review is timely, comprehensive, in-depth and highly attractive for scientists from multiple disciplines and scientific fields, and can facilitate further development of advanced functional low-dimensional nanomaterials and multi-functionalized systems toward high-performance practical applications in significant fields.
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Li S, Gunda H, Ray KG, Wong CS, Xiao P, Friddle RW, Liu YS, Kang S, Dun C, Sugar JD, Kolasinski RD, Wan LF, Baker AA, Lee JRI, Urban JJ, Jasuja K, Allendorf MD, Stavila V, Wood BC. Spontaneous dynamical disordering of borophenes in MgB 2 and related metal borides. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6268. [PMID: 34725350 PMCID: PMC8560812 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26512-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Layered boron compounds have attracted significant interest in applications from energy storage to electronic materials to device applications, owing in part to a diversity of surface properties tied to specific arrangements of boron atoms. Here we report the energy landscape for surface atomic configurations of MgB2 by combining first-principles calculations, global optimization, material synthesis and characterization. We demonstrate that contrary to previous assumptions, multiple disordered reconstructions are thermodynamically preferred and kinetically accessible within exposed B surfaces in MgB2 and other layered metal diborides at low boron chemical potentials. Such a dynamic environment and intrinsic disordering of the B surface atoms present new opportunities to realize a diverse set of 2D boron structures. We validated the predicted surface disorder by characterizing exfoliated boron-terminated MgB2 nanosheets. We further discuss application-relevant implications, with a particular view towards understanding the impact of boron surface heterogeneity on hydrogen storage performance. Layered boron compounds attract enormous interest in applications. This work reports first-principles calculations coupled with global optimization to show that the outer boron surface in MgB2 nanosheets undergo disordering and clustering, which is experimentally confirmed in synthesized MgB2 nanosheets.
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- Sichi Li
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA.
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382355, India
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382355, India
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA.
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Sun Y, Zhang X, Tang J, Guo T, Zhou M, Yao X, Liu L, Liu Y, Ding F. Structural Evolution of Boron Clusters on Ag(111) Surfaces - From Atomic Chains to Triangular Sheets with Hexagonal Holes. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:894-903. [PMID: 33538388 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202001019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Unlike graphene and other 2D materials, borophene is 2D polymorphic with diverse hexagonal holes (HHs)-triangles ratios and the concentrations of HHs are highly substrate dependent. Here, we systematically explored the evolution of boron cluster on Ag(111) surface, BN @Ag(111) (N=1∼36), to understand the nucleation of 2D boron sheet on metal surface. Our calculation showed that, with the size increasing, the structures of most stable BN clusters undergo an evolution from compact triangular lattice, such as double-chains or triple-chains, to the ones with mixed triangular-hexagonal lattices. The first single-HH appears at N=12 and the first double-HH appears at N=27. The stability of large BN clusters with mixed structures is derived from the charge transfer between triangular lattice and the HHs, as well as between the substrates and the BN clusters. Our results provide a deep understanding on the formation of small boron clusters in the initial nucleation stage of borophene growth.
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- Yi Sun
- College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Department of Physics, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China
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- College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Ulsan, Republic of Korea
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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Zhang YL, Yang JH, Xiang H, Gong XG. Fully Boron-Sheet-Based Field Effect Transistors from First-Principles: Inverse Design of Semiconducting Boron Sheets. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:576-584. [PMID: 33382274 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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High-performance two-dimensional (2D) field effect transistors (FETs) have a broad application prospect in future electronic devices. The lack of an ideal material system, however, hinders the breakthrough of 2D FETs. Recently, phase engineering offers a promising solution, but it requires both semiconducting and metallic phases of materials. Here we suggest borophenes as ideal systems for 2D FETs by theoretically searching semiconducting phases. Using multiobjective differential optimization algorithms implemented in the IM2ODE package and the first-principles calculations, we have successfully identified 16 new semiconducting borophenes. Among them, the B12-1 borophene is the most stable semiconducting phase, whose total energy is lower than any other known semiconducting borophenes. By considering not only the band alignments but also the lattice matches between semiconducting and metallic borophenes, we then have theoretically proposed several device models of fully boron-sheet-based 2D FETs. Our work provides beneficial ideas and attempts for discovering novel borophene-based 2D FETs.
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- Yi-Lin Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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Ito SI, Hirabayashi T, Ishibiki R, Kawamura R, Goto T, Fujita T, Yamaguchi A, Hosono H, Miyauchi M, Kondo T. Hydrogen Boride Sheets as Reductants and the Formation of Nanocomposites with Metal Nanoparticles. CHEM LETT 2020. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.200206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Shin-ichi Ito
- Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan
- Department of Materials Science and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, 185 Miyanokuchi, Tosayamada, Kochi 782-8502, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan
- Department of Materials Science and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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