High-yield synthesis of boron nitride nanoribbons via longitudinal splitting of boron nitride nanotubes by potassium vapor

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9867-9873

  Sinitskii, Alexander ^a   Erickson, Kristopher J ^b,c,d   Lu, Wei ^d   Gibb, Ashley L ^b,c,d   Zhi, Chunyi ^f   Bando, Yoshio ^g   Golberg, Dmitri ^b,d   Zettl, Alex ^c   Tour, James M ^e,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Department of Chemistry ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^h Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

boron nitride nanoribbons; boron nitride nanotubes; potassium splitting

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANORIBBONS; NANOTUBES; NITRIDES; POTASSIUM;

BORON NITRIDE NANORIBBONS; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; HIGH YIELD SYNTHESIS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PRECURSOR MATERIALS; SPLITTING REACTIONS; SYNTHETIC APPROACH;

BORON NITRIDE;

EID: 84908439338     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn504809n     Document Type: Article

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