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Panorama of boron nitride nanostructures via lamp ablation

Sehrina Eshon1, Weike Zhang3, Martin Saunders2, Yujun Zhang4, Hui Tong Chua1, Jeffrey M. Gordon1,5( )
Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
School of Environmental Science and Engineering,Taiyuan University of Technology,Taiyuan,030024,China;
Department of Material Science and Engineering,Shandong University,Jinan,250061,China;
Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 8499000, Israel
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A diverse range of remarkable boron nitride (BN) nanostructures subsuming nano-horns, nano-rods, nano-platelets, and clusters of hollow nanospheres (nano-onions, arguably of greatest applied and fundamental interest) have been produced exclusively from crystalline BN precursor powder via lamp ablation. The procedure is safe, devoid of toxic reagents, simple, rapid and scalable-generating some genres of nanoparticles that had previously proved elusive. Product structure and composition were unambiguously assessed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy.

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boron nitridenanostructuresnano-onionslamp ablationnon-toxic

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Nano Research
Volume 12 Issue 3,
March 2019
Pages 557-562
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-018-2252-0
Cite this article:
Eshon S, Zhang W, Saunders M, et al. Panorama of boron nitride nanostructures via lamp ablation. Nano Research, 2019, 12(3): 557-562. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-018-2252-0
Topics:
Boron nitrideElectron energy levels Electron scatteringEnergy dispersive spectroscopyIIINanohornsNanorodsNanospheres NanostructuresNitridesV semiconductors

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Received: 28 August 2018
Revised: 16 November 2018
Accepted: 21 November 2018
Published: 12 December 2018
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