Synergistic behavior of tubes, junctions, and sheets imparts mechano-mutable functionality in 3D porous boron nitride nanostructures

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 22730-22738

  Sakhavand, Navid ^a   Shahsavari, Rouzbeh ^a,b,c  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; GRAPHENE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NITRIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

BORON-NITRIDE NANOTUBES; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NEGATIVE POISSON'S RATIOS; POROUS BORON NITRIDES; STRENGTH AND TOUGHNESS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84907758547     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5044706     Document Type: Article

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