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Effect Of Mono-Vacant Defects On The Adsorption Properties Of Deep Eutectic Solvents Onto Hexagonal Boron-Nitride Nanoflakes, Mehdi Shakourian-Fard, S. Maryamdokht Taimoory, Hamid Reza Ghenaatian, Ganesh Kamath, John F. Trant Mar 2022

Effect Of Mono-Vacant Defects On The Adsorption Properties Of Deep Eutectic Solvents Onto Hexagonal Boron-Nitride Nanoflakes, Mehdi Shakourian-Fard, S. Maryamdokht Taimoory, Hamid Reza Ghenaatian, Ganesh Kamath, John F. Trant

Chemistry and Biochemistry Publications

Hexagonal boron nitride is a promising material for a variety of electronic, optical, and material science applications. Both the synthesis of the material through exfoliation, and its various applications almost inevitably require its solvation. Deep eutectic solvents (DES) are extremely useful solvents for these types of applications due to their non-volatility, inflammability, biocompatibility, and reasonable cost. There are many different deep eutectic solvents available, and their suitability for any given application is particularly dependent on the specific of their structure. DES have been examined computationally for use with boron nitride, but these calculations use idealized, perfect boron nitride sheets instead …


A Dft Study Of The Adsorption Of Deep Eutectic Solvents Onto Graphene And Defective Graphene Nanoflakes, Mehdi Shakourian-Fard, S. Maryamdokht Taimoory, Hamid Reza Ghenaatian, Ganesh Kamath, John F. Trant Apr 2021

A Dft Study Of The Adsorption Of Deep Eutectic Solvents Onto Graphene And Defective Graphene Nanoflakes, Mehdi Shakourian-Fard, S. Maryamdokht Taimoory, Hamid Reza Ghenaatian, Ganesh Kamath, John F. Trant

Chemistry and Biochemistry Publications

The interaction of four deep choline chloride-derived eutectic solvents (DESs) with both graphene nanoflakes (GNF) and its defective double-vacancy and Stone–Wales forms (DV-GNF and SW-GNF), was evaluated using density functional theory (DFT). The presence of defects increases the adsorption energy of DESs, following the order DES∩DV-GNF > DES∩SW-GNF > DES∩GNF. Non-covalent interaction and energy decomposition analyses show that the interactions are noncovalent and dominated by dispersive forces. Furthermore, we find that the presence of aromatic moieties in the DESs increases the van der Waals interactions with the surfaces. These interactions decrease the HOMO-LUMO (Eg) energy gap of the surfaces and thus increase …