Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the most frequently used nanomaterials due to their high electrical and thermal conductivity, superior mechanical properties, unique optical characteristics, low cost, and ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers at MIT and the University of Tokyo have produced centimeter-scale structures, large enough for the eye to see, that are packed with hundreds of billions of hollow aligned ...

Each wall is a layer of material, and fewer-walled nanotubes are the most sought after. The researchers say the next step is to test the properties of the new boron-nitride nanotubes to determine the ...

If nanotube technology is to reach its full commercial potential, the ability to control and fine-tune properties such as these will be vital to manufacture of tailored devices. Carbon nanotubes are ...

Small wonder. The first macroscopic, commercially usable BNNTs, spun into a 3-centimeter-long, 1-milimeter-diameter piece of yarn. Credit: Michael Smith Researchers have long been able to make ...

Researchers discover a way to 'decorate' electrically insulating boron nitride nanotubes with functional groups. That makes them complementary building blocks to conductive carbon nanotubes for future ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used a surfactant to disperse insulating boron nitride nanotubes and coat them onto surfaces without bundling. The team demonstrated ...

NASA has one of the few facilities in the world able to produce quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes BNNTs. Carbon nanotubes can stay stable at temperatures up to 400 degrees Celsius but BNNTs can ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) First theorized in 1994 by researchers at UC Berkley ("Theory of graphitic boron nitride nanotubes"), boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) represents a new class of super-strong ...

Like their all-carbon cousins, boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) possess exceptional mechanical properties, thanks to similarities in geometry. In certain areas, BNNTs even outperform carbon nanotubes.