RAPID SOLID-STATE-PRECURSOR SYNTHESIS OF CRYSTALLINE BORON NITRIDE
RAPID SOLID-STATE-PRECURSOR SYNTHESIS OF CRYSTALLINE BORON NITRIDE
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DOI:
10.1021/ic00093a003
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发表时间:
1994-07
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
L. Rao;R. Kaner
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作者:
L. Rao;R. Kaner
A major concern for solid-state chemistry is minimization of diffusion barriers. 1 Rapid solid-state-precursor synthesis provides a unique approach to push solid reactivity to its limit by performing highly exothermic reactions in a self-sustaining mode. 2 During these reactions, diffusion barriers are significantly reduced because of the facile decomposition of precursors and the formation of molten salts. Consequently, this approach has p-ovenvery effective in rapid preparation of several crystalline products including layered transition metal dichalcogenides, transition metal nitrides, and III-V semiconductors. 2™ 5 Along these lines, some well-known materials that are difficult to crystallize, such as boron nitride, should be accessible. To achieve this goal, an understanding of solid reactivity and reaction kinetics in selfpropagating reactions is useful. Because of the presence of high activation energy barriers, highly exothermic reactions do not necessarily self-propagate and/or form crystalline products. For example, the industrial preparation of layered-form hexagonal (h-) BN, 3CaB6+ B203+ 10N2—20BN+ 3CaO, is highly exothermic (thermodynamically estimated adiabatic temperature rad= 3400 C6), but hightemperature heating (> 1500 C) is required to obtain h-BN from this reaction. 7 Even explosive reactions such as that found recentlybetween cesium and S-trichloroborazine lead to amorphous rather than crystalline BN products. 8 The conversion of disordered turbostratic (t-) BN to its highly ordered relative h-BN must be performed at temperatures> 1800 C in the presence of catalysts. 9 Under typical laboratory synthetic conditions, amorphous BN is obtained along with turbostratic modifications. 10 Here we show that by selecting an appropriate self-sustaining reaction route that avoids energy barriers inherent in conventional approaches, highly crystalline boron nitride can be synthesized within seconds with little outside energy input.