Green Synthesis of Boron Carbonitride with High Capacitance

Dongping Chen; Yanzhen Huang; Xinling Hu; Rongkai Li; Yingjiang Qian; Dongxu Li

doi:10.3390/ma11030387

Green Synthesis of Boron Carbonitride with High Capacitance

Materials (Basel). 2018 Mar 6;11(3):387. doi: 10.3390/ma11030387.

Authors

Dongping Chen¹, Yanzhen Huang², Xinling Hu³, Rongkai Li⁴, Yingjiang Qian⁵, Dongxu Li⁶

Affiliations

¹ College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China. 1511302040@hqu.edu.cn.
² College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China. 15737567342@163.com.
³ College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China. 18224566342@163.com.
⁴ College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China. liyungkai@yeah.net.
⁵ College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China. qian1358_love@163.com.
⁶ College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China. lidongxu@hqu.edu.cn.

Abstract

Boron carbonitrides (BCN) have attracted great interest in superhard or energy storage materials. In this work, thin BCN sheets were synthesized at 250 °C by a facile and green solvothermal method. The structure and morphology were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Based on the results of electrochemical experiments, the thin BCN sheet exhibited excellent capacitance performance (343.1 F/g at a current density of 0.5 A/g) and cycling stability (90%), which showed high potential applications in supercapacitors.

Keywords: Microstructure; boron carbonitride; solvothermal; supercapacitors.