title: Functionalized hexagonal boron nitride nanomaterials: emerging properties and applications.
abstract: Functionalization is an important way to breed new properties and applications for a material. This review presents an overview of the progresses in functionalized hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanomaterials. It begins with an introduction of h-BN structural features, physical and chemical properties, followed by an emphasis on the developments of BN functionalization strategies and its emerging properties/applications, and ends with the research perspectives. Different functionalization methods, including physical and chemical routes, are comprehensively described toward fabrication of various BN derivatives, hetero- and porous structures, etc. Novel properties of functionalized BN materials, such as high water solubility, excellent biocompatibility, tunable surface affinities, good processibility, adjustable band gaps, etc., have guaranteed wide applications in biomedical, electronic, composite, environmental and "green" energy-related fields.
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Weng.Qunhong@nims.go.jp wengqunhong@gmail.com Golberg.Dmitri@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Qunhong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Weng
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Weng.Qunhong@nims.go.jp wengqunhong@gmail.com Golberg.Dmitri@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Xuebin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, P. R. China. xiwang@bjtu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Weng.Qunhong@nims.go.jp wengqunhong@gmail.com Golberg.Dmitri@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Yoshio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bando
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Weng.Qunhong@nims.go.jp wengqunhong@gmail.com Golberg.Dmitri@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Dmitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Golberg