Boron nitride nanotubes and nanosheets

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2979-2993

  Golberg, Dmitri ^a   Bando, Yoshio ^a   Huang, Yang ^a   Terao, Takeshi ^a   Mitome, Masanori ^a   Tang, Chengchun ^a   Zhi, Chunyi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic force microcopy; Boron nitride; Chemical vapor deposition; Nanosheets; Nanotubes; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE; BAND GAPS; BN NANOTUBE; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR; FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES; GRAPHENE LATTICES; GRAPHITE-LIKE STRUCTURES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; INSULATING SUBSTRATES; LAYERED MATERIAL; MONATOMIC LAYER; NANOMATERIAL; NON-CARBON NANOTUBES; OPTOELECTRONIC NANODEVICES; PLANAR NETWORKS; POTENTIAL FIELD; PROPERTY EVALUATION; STRUCTURAL ANALOGUE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; TUBE GEOMETRY;

BORON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NITRIDES; SUBSTRATES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BORON NITRIDE;

BORON DERIVATIVE; ELBOR; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BORON COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77955579510     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1006495     Document Type: Review

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