Highly Ordered BN ⊥ –BN ⊥ Stacking Structure for Improved Thermally Conductive Polymer Composites

Machinable α-SiAlON/BN Composites

Dense machinable α-SiAlON/BN composites were fabricated by hot-pressing using turbostratic boron nitride (tBN) obtained from nitridation of melamine diborate. The tBN was added to the starting powders, or introduced as a coating that formed in situ on α-Si3N4 carrier powders during nitridation, and was subsequently converted to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) during hot pressing by solution repre...

Development and Modeling of Thermally Conductive Polymer/Carbon Composites

Enhancing the mechanical properties of BN nanosheet-polymer composites by uniaxial drawing.

We have used liquid exfoliation of hexagonal Boron-Nitride (BN) to prepare composites of BN nanosheets of three different sizes in polyvinylchloride matrices. These composites show low levels of reinforcement, consistent with poor alignment of the nanosheets as-described by a modified version of Halpin-Tsai theory. However, drawing of the composites to 300% strain results in a considerable incr...

Unique Hydrogen Desorption Properties of LiAlH4/h-BN Composites

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is known as an effective additive to improve the hydrogen de/absorption properties of hydrogen storage materials consisting of light elements. Herein, we report the unique hydrogen desorption properties of LiAlH4/h-BN composites, which were prepared by ball-milling. The desorption profiles of the composite indicated the decrease of melting temperature of LiAlH4, t...

Ordered Layers of Co Clusters on BN Template Layers