Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Layers: Nanostructures with 3 bond hierarchy levels

Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Layers: Nanostructures with 3 bond hierarchy levels

Single layers of carbon (graphene) and hexagonal boron nitride may be grown on transition metal surfaces. The substrates take the role of the support and allow due to their catalytic activity the growth of perfect layers by chemical vapor deposition. The layers are sp2 hybridized honeycomb networks with strong in plane �and weaker out of plane �-bonds to the substrate and to the adsorbates. Thi...

Synthesis of hexagonal boron nitride graphene-like few layers.

Self-standing highly crystallized hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) mono-, bi- and few-layers have been obtained for the first time via the Polymer Derived Ceramics (PDCs) route by adding lithium nitride (Li₃N) micropowders to liquid-state polyborazylene (PBN). Incorporation of Li₃N as a crystallization promoter allows the onset of crystallization of h-BN at a lower temperature (1200 °C) than unde...

TOPICAL REVIEW Graphene on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

The field of graphene research has developed rapidly since its first isolation by mechanical exfoliation in 2004. Due to the relativistic Dirac nature of its charge carriers, graphene is both a promising material for next-generation electronic devices and a convenient low-energy testbed for intrinsically high-energy physical phenomena. Both of these research branches require the facile fabricat...

Graphene and Boron Nitride Single Layers

Thermal transport across graphene and single layer hexagonal boron nitride