Isolating hydrogen in hexagonal boron nitride bubbles by a plasma treatment

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a two-dimensional material with wide band gap and high thermal and chemical stability. Here the authors demonstrate the formation and trapping of hydrogen gas bubbles in hBN interlayers upon plasma treatment, promising for extracting and storing hydrogen.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li He, Huishan Wang, Lingxiu Chen, Xiujun Wang, Hong Xie, Chengxin Jiang, Chen Li, Kenan Elibol, Jannik Meyer, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhangting Wu, Wenhui Wang, Zhenhua Ni, Xiangshui Miao, Chi Zhang, Daoli Zhang, Haomin Wang, Xiaoming Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10660-9