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Research Article

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

Andrei T. Matveev1( )Konstantin L. Firestein1Alexander E. Steinman1Andrey M. Kovalskii1Oleg I. Lebedev2Dmitry 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.

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Cite this article:
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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Received: 25 September 2014
Revised: 03 December 2014
Accepted: 07 January 2015
Published: 08 April 2015
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