Boron nitride nanotubes and nanosheets

D Golberg, Y Bando, Y Huang, T Terao, M Mitome… - ACS …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a layered material with a graphite-like structure in which
planar networks of BN hexagons are regularly stacked. As the structural analogue of a …

Boron nitride nanotubes

C Zhi, Y Bando, C Tang, D Golberg - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2010 - Elsevier
This article presents an overview of the up-to-date developments in boron nitride nanotubes
(BNNTs), including theory, fabrication, structure, physical properties, chemical …

Nearly free electron states in MXenes

M Khazaei, A Ranjbar, M Ghorbani-Asl, M Arai… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Using a set of first-principles calculations, we studied the electronic structures of two-
dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, so called MXenes, functionalized with F …

Molecular charge transfer: a simple and effective route to engineer the band structures of BN nanosheets and nanoribbons

Q Tang, Z Zhou, Z Chen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2011 - ACS Publications
The electronic properties of BN nanosheets and nanoribbons doped with organic molecules
with strong electron-donating or accepting abilities were investigated by means of density …

Synthesis of boron nitride nanotubes via chemical vapour deposition: a comprehensive review

P Ahmad, MU Khandaker, ZR Khan, YM Amin - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) have been synthesized by various methods over the last
two decades. Among the various growth techniques, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is …

One-dimensional nearly free electron states in borophene

L Kong, L Liu, L Chen, Q Zhong, P Cheng, H Li… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional boron (borophene) features structural polymorphs and distinct in-plane
anisotropy, opening opportunities to achieve tailored electronic properties by intermixing …

Physisorption vs. chemisorption of probe molecules on boron nitride nanomaterials: the effect of surface curvature

A Rimola, M Sodupe - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The adsorption of H2O, NH3 and HCOOH as polar probe molecules and C6H6 and CH4 as
non-polar ones on a series of zig-zag (n, 0) single-walled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) …

Understanding effects of molecular adsorption at a single-wall boron nitride nanotube interface from density functional theory calculations

B Akdim, SN Kim, RR Naik, B Maruyama… - …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we explored computationally the feasibility of modulating the bandgap in a
single-wall BN nanotube (BNNT) upon noncovalent adsorption of organic molecules …

[HTML][HTML] Nanowires sheathed inside nanotubes: Manipulation, properties and applications

Q Liu, R Zou, Y Bando, D Golberg, J Hu - Progress in Materials Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of metals encapsulated into multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs),
such sheathed structures attracted extensive interest with respect to the development of …

Li2 Trapped inside Tubiform [n] Boron Nitride Clusters (n=4–8): Structures and First Hyperpolarizability

F Ma, ZJ Zhou, YT Liu - ChemPhysChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The geometries and electronic properties of tubiform [n] boron nitride clusters entrapping Li2
(Li2@ BN‐cluster (n, 0); n= 4–8), obtained by doping BN‐cluster (n, 0) with Li2 molecules …