title: A Novel Mild Phase-Transition to Prepare Black Phosphorus Nanosheets with Excellent Energy Applications.
abstract: Based on the phase transformation of phosphorus and Gibbs free energy theory, a new mild method to fabricate black phosphorus nanosheets from their red phosphorus microsphere counterparts is proposed. Interestingly, the as-prepared black phosphorus nanosheets, as a kind of novel metal-free photocatalyst, exhibit excellent photocatalytic H2production performance owing to their intrinsic layered polycrystalline structure. Besides, the nanosheet is also a kind of potential anode material in lithium-ion batteries and shows good electrochemical performance.
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Tailin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Yongliang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Yongzhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Baibiao
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Xiaopeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hao
keywords: black phosphorus nanosheets; hydrogen production; lithium-ion batteries; metal-free photocatalysts; mild phase-transition