Cathodoluminescence imaging and spectroscopy on a single multiwall boron nitride nanotube

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...

Patterned growth and cathodoluminescence of conical boron nitride nanorods

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...

Origin of the excitonic recombinations in hexagonal boron nitride by spatially resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy

Carbon nanotube and boron nitride nanotube hostedC60â•fiV nanopeapods