Boron Nitride Nanotube (BNNT) Membranes for Energy and Environmental Applications

Boron Nitride Nanotube: Synthesis and Applications

Scientists have predicted that carbon’s immediate neighbors on the periodic chart, boron and nitrogen, may also form perfect nanotubes, since the advent of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in 1991. First proposed then synthesized by researchers at UC Berkeley in the mid 1990’s, the boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) has proven very difficult to make until now. Herein we provide an update on a catalyst-free m...

Theoretical study of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxine removal by boron nitride-nanotube (BNNT): QSAR, IR-DFT

The study examined corrosion inhibition of corrosion inhibition of 5-methyl-2H-imidazol-4-carboxaldehyde and 1H-Indole-3-carboxaldehyde on mild steel in acidic medium using weight loss and Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods. DFT calculations were carried out at B3LYP/6-31+G** level of theory in aqueous medium on the molecular structures to describe electronic parameters. The values of ther...

Boron Nitride Nanotube Peapods

We demonstrate that boron nitride (BN) nanotubes can be filled "peapod" fashion with C60 molecules. Filling small-diameter BN nanotubes results in a linear chain of C60 molecules in the interior, while filling large diameter BN nanotubes leads to nanorods of crystalline C60 in the interior. Electron beam damage can be used to fuse the encapsulated C60 molecules into carbon nanotubes, leading to...

Carbon nanotube and boron nitride nanotube hostedC60â•fiV nanopeapods

Adsorption Properties of Hydrogen on H-Capped (5, 5) Boron Nitride Nanotube (BNNT) Through Density Functional Theory

The density functional theory (DFT) has been used to simultaneously investigate physic/chemisorption properties of hydrogen on the (5, 5) boron nitride nanotube (BNNT). Geometry optimizations were carried out at B3LYP/6-31G* level of theory using Gaussian 98 suites of program. Physisorption of H outside 2 the BNNT with a vertical orientation to the tube axis above a nitrogen atom is the most st...