Borocarbonitrides, BxCyNz

Kumar, Nitesh and Moses, Kota and Pramoda, K and Shirodkar, Sharmila N and Mishra, Abhishek Kumar and Waghmare, Umesh V and Sundaresan, A and Rao, CNR (2013) Borocarbonitrides, BxCyNz. In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1 (19). pp. 5806-5821.

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Abstract

Various forms of carbon, especially the nanocarbons, have received considerable attention in recent years. There has also been some effort to investigate borocarbonitrides, BxCyNz, comprising besides carbon, the two elements on either side. Although uniformly homogeneous compositions of borocarbonitrides may be difficult to generate, there have been attempts to prepare them by solid state as well as gas phase reactions. Some of the products so obtained show evidence for the presence of BCN networks. Then, there are composites (G-BN) containing hexagonal BN (h-BN) and graphene (G) domains, G(1-x)(BN)(x), in varying proportions. Nanotubes of BxCyNz have been reported by several workers. The borocarbonitrides exhibit some interesting electronic and gas adsorption properties. Thus, some of the preparations show selective CO2 adsorption. They also exhibit excellent characteristics for supercapacitor applications. In order to understand the nature of these understudied materials, it is necessary to examine the results from first-principles calculations. These calculations throw light on the variation in the band gap of G-BN with the concentration of h-BN, for different geometries of the domains and their boundaries. The possibility of formation of Stone-Wales (SW) defects at the interfaces of graphene and h-BN has been studied and the estimates of the formation energies of SW defects at the interfaces are similar to 4 to 6 eV. The presence of such defects at the interfaces influences the electronic structure near the band gap and the associated properties. For example, adsorption of CH4 and CO2 occurs with significantly stronger binding at the interfacial defects.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Royal Society of Chemistry.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited:	28 May 2013 11:33
Last Modified:	28 May 2013 11:33
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/46616

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