We report the formation and characterization of boron nitride atomic chains. The chains were made from hexagonal boron nitride sheets using the electron beam inside a transmission electron microscope. We find that the stability and lifetime of the chains are significantly improved when they are supported by another boron nitride layer. With the help of first-principles calculations, we prove th...

sReceived 16 September 2004; accepted 2 December 2004; published online 25 January 2005d We report on a method to locally remove material from carbon and boron nitride nanotubes using the low-energy focused electron beam of a scanning electron microscope. Using this method, clean precise cuts can be made into nanotubes, either part-way through screating hingelike geometriesd or fully through sc...

The effect of uni-axial strain on the electronic properties of (8,0) zigzag and (5,5) armchair boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) is addressed by density functional theory calculation. The stress-strain profiles indicate that these two BNNTS of differing types display very similar mechanical properties, but there are variations in HOMO-LUMO gaps at different strains, indicating that the electronic ...

The microstructure and interfacial fracture energy of silicon nitride/boron nitride fibrous monoliths, GBN, were determined as a function of starting silicon nitride composition and temperature using the method described by Charalambides. The glassy phase created by the sintering aids added to the silicon nitride cells was shown to migrate into the boron nitride cell boundaries during hot-press...

A series of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs)/ carbide (B4C) composite ceramics were prepared using spark plasma sintering (SPS) technology, which uses B4C powders as the matrix and BNNTs toughening phase. X-ray diffraction (XRD) scanning electron microscope (SEM) then used to characterize ceramic samples. The effects temperature, content, particle size on microstructure mechanical properties inv...

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...

Now a day study on boron nitrid nanotubes are in considerable attetion due to their unique properties in different field of science. In this letter, after final optimization, thermodynamic properties analysis, stabilities, electronic structure and nuclear magnetic resonance parameters including σ isotropic and σ anisotropic tensors and asymmetric parameters of 15N and 11B nuclei are calculated....

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....