Supplementary Information

Fire-resistant plant fiber sponge enabled by highly thermo-

conductive hexagonal boron nitride ink

Tingjie Chen,a,* Zhiyong Liu,a Xiaokang Hu,b Gang Zhao,a Zipeng Qin,a John Tosin Aladejana,c

Xiangfang Peng,a Yongqun Xie,c and Binghui Wub,*

a
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Products

of Universities in Fujian, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350002, P.R. China.

b
State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of

Chemistry for Energy Materials, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for

Preparation Technology of Nanomaterials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pen-

Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Graphene industry and engineering

Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China.

c
College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, P. R.

China.

* Corresponding Author. Tingjie Chen, E-mail: chentj@fjut.edu.cn

Binghui Wu, E-mail: binghuiwu@xmu.edu.cn

 Fig. S1. SEM image of the commercial h-BN sheets.

Fig. S2. SEM image of the exfoliated h-BN nanosheets (h-BNNS).

Fig. S3. (a-b) AFM image and typical height profile of h-BNNS.
 Fig. S4. XRD patterns of pure and exfoliated h-BNNS.

Fig. S5. (a-b) Optical images to show the computer’s CPU before and after covering by the h-BN/PU
film.

Fig. S6. Optical image of the PFS.

Fig. S7. Optical images to show the surface of (a) PFS and (b) PFS@h-BN.

Fig. S8. SEM image of the plant fiber without BN.

Fig. S9. N-element mapping of the plant fiber with h-BN.

 Fig. S10. DTG curves of PFS and PFS@h-BN.

Fig. S11. XRD patterns of h-BNNS and PFS@h-BN.

Fig. S12. XPS wide energy spectra of PFS and PFS@h-BN.

Fig. S13. Optical images to show the (a) shrunken structure and (b) tight surface of PFS treated by
the h-BN ink with a concentration of 40%.

Fig. S14. Limiting oxygen index values of PFS@h-BN with different mh-BN/mPU ratio.

Fig. S15. Optical images to show the final residues of the PFS before and after combustion.
Fig. S16. Optical images to show the final residues of the PFS@h-BN before and after combustion.

Fig. S17. Comparison of the (a) time to ignition, (b) time to flameout, (c) time to peak1, and (d) time
to peak2 of this work with other reported fire-resistant PFS results at a heat flux of 50 kW m-2 [S1-
S3]. (PFS: pure plant fiber sponge; Si-Al/NFS: silicon and aluminum compounds treated newspaper
fiber sponge; CP/PFS: chlorinated paraffins treated plant fiber sponge; Si-Al/PFS: silicon and
aluminum compounds treated plant fiber sponge; BC/PFS: boron compounds treated plant fiber
sponge; NPC/PFS: Nitrogen-phosphorus compounds treated plant fiber sponge).
 Fig. S18. Compressive stress-strain curves of PFS and PFS@h-BN.

Tab. S1. Measurements of pkHRR1, pkHRR2, Time to pkHRR1, Time to pkHRR2, TTI, TTF, and
TSR for PFS and PFS@h-BN.
pkHRR1 pkHRR2 Time to Time to TTI TTF
Specimens TSR
(kW m-2) (kW m-2) pkHRR1 (s) pkHRR2 (s) (s) (s)
229.7 185.6 1656.2
PFS 16 ± 2 148 ± 25 2±0 60 ± 10
± 27.6 ± 12.8 ± 120.1
181.4 105.7 1074.5
PFS@h-BN 30 ± 4 203 ± 19 8±1 565 ± 76
± 7.9 ± 10.6 ± 92.5

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