Ultrahigh resistance of hexagonal boron nitride to mineral scale formation

Scale formation may have detrimental effects on the properties and functions of materials’ surfaces. Here the authors report the high scaling resistance of hexagonal boron nitride and relate it to the atomic level structure and interaction with water molecules.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kuichang Zuo, Xiang Zhang, Xiaochuan Huang, Eliezer F. Oliveira, Hua Guo, Tianshu Zhai, Weipeng Wang, Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Menachem Elimelech, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Jun Lou, Qilin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32193-4