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Boron-nitride carbon nanodot electrodes and process for their preparation
EP22382826
The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a boron-carbon doped nanomaterial and to a method for the preparation of an electrode comprising nanostructures of said boron-carbon doped material. The invention also relates to the material and electrodes resulting from said methods and to the use of said electrode as electrocatalyst, capacitator or in an electrochemiluminescent sensor.
The use of a boron-nitrogen carbon nanodot material in the preparation of an electrode by electrografting using the reduction of diazonium groups on the carbon nanodot material would improve significantly the capacitance of the electrode. The invention shows that the formation of singular hexagonal nanostructures leading to the formation of a porous electrode that provides the required structure at microscopic scale to allow the electrode surface to store electrons, which results in an improved capacitance of the electrode.