Facile Synthesis of Millimeter-Scale Vertically Aligned Boron Nitride Nanotube Forests by Template-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 7156-7163

  Tay, Roland Yingjie ^a,b   Li, Hongling ^a,c   Tsang, Siu Hon ^b   Jing, Lin ^d   Tan, Dunlin ^a,c   Wei, Mingwei ^a   Teo, Edwin Hang Tong ^a,d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COATINGS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FORESTRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; NITRIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPOR DEPOSITION; YARN;

ANNEALING PROCESS; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES (BNNTS); FACILE SYNTHESIS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NEW APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH INTERESTS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84945385405     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03300     Document Type: Article

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