Longitudinal splitting of boron nitride nanotubes for the facile synthesis of high quality boron nitride nanoribbons

Kris J. Erickson; Ashley L. Gibb; Alexander Sinitskii; Michael Rousseas; Nasim Alem; James M. Tour; Alex K. Zettl

doi:10.1021/nl2014857

Longitudinal splitting of boron nitride nanotubes for the facile synthesis of high quality boron nitride nanoribbons

Kris J. Erickson, Ashley L. Gibb, Alexander Sinitskii, Michael Rousseas, Nasim Alem, James M. Tour, Alex K. Zettl

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Boron nitride nanoribbons (BNNRs), the boron nitride structural equivalent of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), are predicted to possess unique electronic and magnetic properties. We report the synthesis of BNNRs through the potassium-intercalation-induced longitudinal splitting of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs). This facile, scalable synthesis results in narrow (down to 20 nm), few sheet (typically 2-10), high crystallinity BNNRs with very uniform widths. The BNNRs are at least 1 μm in length with minimal defects within the ribbon plane and along the ribbon edges.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3221-3226
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nano letters
Volume	11
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl2014857
State	Published - Aug 10 2011

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