Syntheses of boron nitride nanotubes from borazine and decaborane molecular precursors by catalytic chemical vapor deposition with a floating nickel catalyst

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2872-2879

  Chatterjee, Shahana ^a   Kim, Myung Jong ^a,b,c   Zakharov, Dmitri N ^d   Kim, Seung Min ^d,e   Stach, Eric A ^d,f   Maruyama, Benji ^b   Sneddon, Larry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Samsung Electro Mechanics   (South Korea)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

borazine; boron nitride nanotubes; chemical vapor deposition; decaborane; floating catalyst; nickel

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA ATMOSPHERE; AVERAGE LENGTH; BORAZINE; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DECABORANES; DOUBLE-WALLED; DOUBLE-WALLED NANOTUBES; FLOATING CATALYST; FLOATING CATALYST METHOD; HIGHLY ORDERED STRUCTURE; INNER DIAMETERS; LOW DEFECT DENSITIES; MOLECULAR PRECURSOR; MULTI-WALLED; MULTI-WALLED NANOTUBES; NICKEL CATALYST; OUTER DIAMETERS; PRECURSOR COMPOUNDS; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEM AND TEM;

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; NICKEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPORS;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84865111330     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm3006088     Document Type: Article

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