Facile synthesis of high-quality Nano-size 10B-enriched fibers of hexagonal boron nitride

• Main Authors: Ahmad, P., Khandaker, Mayeen Uddin *, Rehman, F., Muhammad, N., Faruque, M. R. I., Ullah, Z., Khan, M. A. R., Khan, G., Khan, M. I., Ali, H., Haq, S., Iqbal, Y., Alzimami, K., Jambi, L., Bradley, David A *
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: R895-920 Medical Physics/Medical Radiology
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1667/1/Mayeen%20Facile%20Synthesis.pdf; http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1667/; http://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11030222
• Institution: Sunway University

The interesting properties of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and its potential uses in thermo-structural advanced applications have been limited or restricted by its inherent brittleness, which can easily be eliminated by its fibers (h-BN) in nanoscale dimensions. The current study is based on the synthesis of nanoscale 10B-enriched fibers of h-BN (10BNNFs) from 10B in the precursors instead of B in two-hour annealing at 900 °C and one-hour growth at 1000 °C. All of the 10BNNFs are randomly curved and highly condensed or filled from 10h-BN species with no internal space or crack. XRD peaks reported the 10h-BN phase and highly crystalline nature of the synthesized 10BNNFs. 10h-BN phase and crystalline nature of 10BNNFs are confirmed from high-intensity peaks at 1392 (cm−1) in Raman and FTIR spectroscopes