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Boron nitride nanotube growth via boron oxide assisted chemical vapor transport-deposition process using LiNO3 as a promoter

Show Author's Information Andrei T. Matveev1( ),  Konstantin L. Firestein1,  Alexander E. Steinman1,  Andrey M. Kovalskii1,  Oleg I. Lebedev2,  Dmitry V. Shtansky1( ),  Dmitri Golberg3( )
National University of Science and Technology "MISIS"Leninskiy prospect 4Moscow119049Russia
CRISMATUMR 6508CNRS-ENSICAEN6Bd Marechal JuinCaen14050France
Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)Namiki 1IbarakiTsukuba3050044Japan
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CVD, boron nitride nanotubes, lithium nitrate, lithium borate, BNNT growth mechanism
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Matveev AT, Firestein KL, Steinman AE, et al. Boron nitride nanotube growth via boron oxide assisted chemical vapor transport-deposition process using LiNO3 as a promoter. Nano Research, 2015, 8(6): 2063-2072. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-015-0717-y
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High-purity straight and discrete multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) were grown via a boron oxide vapor reaction with ammonia using LiNO3 as a promoter. Only a trace amount of boron oxide was detected as an impurity in the BNNTs by energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) and Raman spectroscopies. Boron oxide vapor was generated from a mixture of B, FeO, and MgO powders heated to 1, 150 ℃, and it was transported to the reaction zone by flowing ammonia. Lithium nitrate was applied to the upper side of a BN bar from a water solution. The bar was placed along a temperature gradient zone in a horizontal tubular furnace. BNNTs with average diameters of 30-50 nm were mostly observed in a temperature range of 1, 280-1, 320 ℃. At higher temperatures, curled polycrystalline BN fibers appeared. Above 1, 320 ℃, the number of BNNTs drastically decreased, whereas the quantity and diameter of the fibers increased. The mechanism of BNNT and fiber growth is proposed and discussed.


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Boron nitride nanotube growth via boron oxide assisted chemical vapor transport-deposition process using LiNO3 as a promoter

Show Author's information Andrei T. Matveev1( ), Konstantin L. Firestein1, Alexander E. Steinman1, Andrey M. Kovalskii1, Oleg I. Lebedev2, Dmitry V. Shtansky1( ), Dmitri Golberg3( )
National University of Science and Technology "MISIS"Leninskiy prospect 4Moscow119049Russia
CRISMATUMR 6508CNRS-ENSICAEN6Bd Marechal JuinCaen14050France
Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)Namiki 1IbarakiTsukuba3050044Japan

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High-purity straight and discrete multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) were grown via a boron oxide vapor reaction with ammonia using LiNO3 as a promoter. Only a trace amount of boron oxide was detected as an impurity in the BNNTs by energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) and Raman spectroscopies. Boron oxide vapor was generated from a mixture of B, FeO, and MgO powders heated to 1, 150 ℃, and it was transported to the reaction zone by flowing ammonia. Lithium nitrate was applied to the upper side of a BN bar from a water solution. The bar was placed along a temperature gradient zone in a horizontal tubular furnace. BNNTs with average diameters of 30-50 nm were mostly observed in a temperature range of 1, 280-1, 320 ℃. At higher temperatures, curled polycrystalline BN fibers appeared. Above 1, 320 ℃, the number of BNNTs drastically decreased, whereas the quantity and diameter of the fibers increased. The mechanism of BNNT and fiber growth is proposed and discussed.

Keywords: CVD, boron nitride nanotubes, lithium nitrate, lithium borate, BNNT growth mechanism

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Received: 25 September 2014
Revised: 03 December 2014
Accepted: 07 January 2015
Published: 08 April 2015
Issue date: June 2015

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The work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (MES RF) (Increase Competitiveness Program of NUST "MISiS" No. K2-2015-001 in the frame of "Mega-Grant" award No. 11.G34.31.0061) in the part of CVD synthesis of BN structures. O. I. L. gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the MES RF in the framework of Increase Competitiveness Program of NUST (MISiS) (No. К3-2014-021) in the part of samples characterization using TEM and HRTEM. A. T. M and A. M. K. particular acknowledge the financial support from the MES RF (State task 11.1077.2014/K).

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