Tailoring the SiC fiber-matrix interface in micron-sized fibers is crucial to attaining enhanced mechanical properties ceramic reinforced composites. Herein, authors report growth of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) onto (SiCf), creating a fuzzy fiber architecture promote surface area for defined load path matrix and improve these structures. Successful BNNT-growth achieved by oxide chemical vapo...

With the end of Moore's law in sight, researchers are in search of an alternative approach to manipulate information. Spintronics or spin-based electronics, which uses the spin state of electrons to store, process and communicate information, offers exciting opportunities to sustain the current growth in the information industry. For example, the discovery of the giant magneto resistance (GMR) ...

Polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) such as silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) have shown promise as electrode materials for rechargeable Li-ion batteries (LIBs) owing to the synergy between their disordered carbon phase and hybrid bonds of silicon with oxygen and carbon. This study describes the synthesis and characterization of a new type of PDC composite comprising SiOC embedded with varying wt% of boron...

Water-filled nanometer-scale porous structures have gained considerable attention over the past decade due to their enormous promise in substantially improving the performance and efficiency of many applications such as biological/chemical systems,1-3 water purification systems,4 fuel cell devices,5 etc. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), due to their extraordinary physical and chemical p...

The adsorption behavior of the anti-neurodegenerative drug Levodopa (LD) on pristine and aluminum-doped (Al-doped) boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) has been investigated in current study using density functional theory (DFT) approach at B3LYP/6-31G** level theory. aim was to improve expand carriers used biomedical systems, i.e., delivery systems. binding qualities pure doped BNNT complexes as ad...

Single-walled carbon nanotube encapsulated in boron nitrite (SWCNT@BNNT) is a novel nanomaterial with one-dimensional van der Waals (1D-vdW) heterostructure. In this paper, we demonstrated that the SWCNT@BNNT has an enhanced optical power tolerance compared to of pristine SWCNT while exhibiting saturable absorption properties. Under intensity 13kW/cm2, lifetime found be 2,270 times longer than ...

The storage capacity of hydrogen on Na-decorated born nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) is investigated by using density functional theory within Quantum Espresso and Gaussian 09. The results obtained predict that a single Na atom tends to occupy above the central region of the hexagonal rings in (5,0) and (3,3) BNNT structures with a binding energy of -2.67 and -4.28 eV/Na-atom respectively. When a si...

Abstract Herein, we apply a one-step filtration method to obtain boron nitride nanotube (BNNT)-based fabrics incorporating high content of BNNTs and an adhesive thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). The adsorption behavior TPU on different qualities functionalized was evaluated in two-solvent system contrasted with carbon nanotubes, pointing differences surface interaction. BNNT quality affected no...

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed to compute nitrogen-14 and boron-11 nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy parameters in the representative model of armchair boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) for the first time. The considered model consisting of 1 nm length of H-capped (5, 5) single-wall BNNT were first allowed to fully relax and then the NQR calculations were ...