Ultrahigh torsional stiffness and strength of boron nitride nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6347-6352

  Garel, Jonathan ^a   Leven, Itai ^b   Zhi, Chunyi ^c   Nagapriya, K S ^a   Popovitz Biro, Ronit ^a   Golberg, Dmitri ^c   Bando, Yoshio ^c   Hod, Oded ^b   Joselevich, Ernesto ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

atomic force microscopy (AFM); boron nitride (BN); faceting; nanomechanics; Nanotube; torsion

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; FACETING; INTERLAYER COUPLING; NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TORSIONAL STIFFNESS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; NANOMECHANICS; NANOTUBES; TORSIONAL STRESS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

BORON DERIVATIVE; BORON NITRIDE; CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; SHEAR STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BORON COMPOUNDS; NANOTUBES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84870908892     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl303601d     Document Type: Article

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