Boron nitride nanotube growth via boron oxide assisted chemical vapor transport-deposition process using LiNO3 as a promoter

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2063-2072

  Matveev, Andrei T ^a   Firestein, Konstantin L ^a   Steinman, Alexander E ^a   Kovalskii, Andrey M ^a   Lebedev, Oleg I ^b   Shtansky, Dmitry V ^a   Golberg, Dmitri ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

BNNT growth mechanism; boron nitride nanotubes; CVD; lithium borate; lithium nitrate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937516228     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0717-y     Document Type: Article

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