Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Isolating hydrogen in hexagonal boron nitride bubbles by a plasma treatment

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10660-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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.