Enhancement of the production yield of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) with high purity was achieved using an amorphous boron-based precursor and a nozzle-type reactor. Use of a mixture of amorphous boron and Fe decreases the milling time for the preparation of the precursor for BNNTs synthesis, as well as the Fe impurity contained in the B/Fe interdiffused precursor nanoparticles by using a si...

Hyphenated electrospinning electrospraying is a versatile method for synthesizing polymeric functional materials with fascinating and tuneable characteristics. In this paper, previously unreported clusters of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) their hybrid nanofibers ɛ-polycaprolactone (PCL) were fabricated successfully. For instance, biocompatible nano fibrous mat may have potent to encapsulate c...

Nanotubes present one of the most promising opportunities in nanotechnology with a plethora of applications in nanoelectronics, mechanical engineering, as well as in biomedical technology. Due to their structure and some physical properties, boron nitride (BN) nanotubes (BNNTs) possess several advantages over carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and they are now commercially produced and used on a large sc...

Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) have many application areas thanks to their superior properties such as thermal and electrical insulation, resistance oxidation, high hydrophobicity, hydrogen storage capacity, well biocompatible properties. Therefore, new synthesis methods are being searched for BNNT with increasing interest in recent years. In this study, purity yield BNNTs were synthesized usi...

In this study, two-dimensional electro-mechanical analysis of a composite rotating shaft subjected to non-axisymmetric internal pressure and applied voltage is investigated where hollow piezoelectric shaft reinforced by boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs). Composite structure is modeled based on piezoelectric fiber reinforced composite (PFRC) theory and a representative volume element has been cons...

Since boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) were first manufactured, they have gained considerable attention for their wide-scale application as reinforcing composites, piezoelectric materials, electrical insulating thermal conductors, and neutron shielding materials because of excellent mechanical, electrical, thermal, absorption properties. Despite the remarkable properties broad scope BNNTs, use h...

Multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) have very attractive mechanical and thermal properties, e.g., elasticity, tensile strength, and high resistance to oxidation, and may be considered as ideal reinforcing agents in lightweight metal matrix composites. Herein, for the first time, Al-BNNT ribbons with various BNNT contents (up to 3 wt.%) were fabricated via melt spinning in an argon atmos...

In this report, a density functional theory (DFT) computational approach was used to investigate the structural and electronic properties of molecular hydrogens adsorbed on single-walled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) with/without doped by group IV elements, such as carbon (C), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge) atom. The twelve hydrogen molecules (H2) were added outer surfaces BNNT frameworks. Geom...

Molecular mechanics results show that a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) membrane can spontaneously assemble on the single-walled boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) in a scroll or helical manner, showing an interesting dependence on h-BN width. The size of BNNTs should meet the required conditions to guarantee self-assembly. Further analyses of energy components and structural geometry show that this ...

Owing to their mechanically tunable electronic properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been widely studied as potential components for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS); however, the mechanical properties of multiwall CNTs are often limited by the weak shear interactions between the graphitic layers. Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) exhibit a strong interlayer mechanical coupling, but their ...