Various techniques including plasma-arc, laser ablation, and chemical vapor-phase synthesis have been employed to Ž . produce bulk amounts of non-carbon such as boron nitride, BN nanotubes with some success, but in general the yields are low. We describe a new high-yield plasma-arc method that easily and reliably produces macroscopic amounts of pure BN nanotubes. Interestingly, the method produ...

Electrical sensitivity of a boron nitride nanotube (BNNT)  was examined toward C2H5OH molecules by using density functional theory (DFT)  calculations . It was founding that the adsorption energy(Ead) of ethanol on the  pristine  nanotubes  is about -51.5 kJ / mol, but when  the nanotube has been doped  with Si and Al atoms , the adsorption  and recovery time ch...

We investigate band gap tuning of bilayer graphene between hexagonal boron nitride sheets, by external electric fields. Using density functional theory, we show that the gap is continuously tunable from 0 to 0.2 eV and is robust to stacking disorder. Moreover, boron nitride sheets do not alter the fundamental response from that of free-standing bilayer graphene, apart from additional screening....

We have created insulated C60 nanowire by packing C60 molecules into the interior of insulating boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs). For small-diameter BNNTs, the wire consists of a linear chain of C60 molecules.With increasing BNNT inner diameter, unusual C60 stacking configurations are obtained (including helical, hollow core, and incommensurate) that are unknown for bulk or thin-film forms of C6...

We present an ab initio study which identifies dominant effects leading to thermal conductivity reductions in carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes with isotope disorder. Our analysis reveals that, contrary to previous speculations, localization effects cannot be observed in the thermal conductivity measurements. Observable reduction of the thermal conductivity is mostly due to diffusive scatterin...

Using the spectral moments method, we present calculations of Raman active modes of Single Walled Boron Nitride Nanotube (SW-BNNT). The Spectra are computed for chiral and achiral nanotubes in terms of their diameter and length. The behaviors of low frequency Raman active modes characteristic, in terms of the tube diameter revealed that these frequencies are diameter dependent. We show that the...

6-amino-1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-b][1,2,4,5]tetrazine (attz)is an explosive material, that has been synthesized from the reaction of 3,6-diaminotetrazine , with nitrous acid and then sodium azide. in the simplest terms, an explosive is defined as a substance, which on initiation by friction, impact, shock, spark, flame, heating, or any simple application of an energy pulse, undergoes a rapid chemical...

We study numerically self-trapped (polaron) states of quasiparticles (electrons, holes or excitons) in a deformable nanotube formed by a hexagonal lattice, wrapped into a cylinder (carbon-and boron nitride-type nanotube structures). We present a Hamiltonian for such a system taking into account an electron-phonon interaction, and determine conditions under which the lowest energy states are pol...