Thermomechanical Multifunctionality in 3D-Printed Polystyrene-Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNT) Composites

Growing Carbon Nanotubes within Boron Nitride Nanotubes

The controlled synthesis and growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has been a long standing challenge in the fabrication of carbon based materials for electronic applications. Due to the sensitivity to small changes in their structure, the successful integration of CNTs on electronic devices is conditioned to the preservation of the graphitic network of single and multiwalled nanotubes from externa...

Boron Nitride Nanotubes for Spintronics

With the end of Moore's law in sight, researchers are in search of an alternative approach to manipulate information. Spintronics or spin-based electronics, which uses the spin state of electrons to store, process and communicate information, offers exciting opportunities to sustain the current growth in the information industry. For example, the discovery of the giant magneto resistance (GMR) ...

Symmetry breaking in boron nitride nanotubes.

We have imaged boron nitride nanotubes with atomic scale resolution using scanning tunneling microscopy. While some nanotubes show the expected triangular lattice pattern, the majority of the nanotubes show unusual stripe patterns which break the underlying symmetry of the boron nitride lattice. We identify the origin of the symmetry breaking and demonstrate that conventional STM imaging analys...

Stress wave propagation in Boron-Nitride nanotubes

Thermodynamics of yield in boron nitride nanotubes

Traian Dumitrică, Holger F. Bettinger,* Gustavo E. Scuseria, and Boris I. Yakobson Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251-1892, USA Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251-1892, USA ~Received 31 October 2002; revised manuscri...