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Synthesis, Analysis, and Electrical Property Measurements of Compound Nanotubes in the B-C-N Ceramic System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Dmitri Golberg ,
Yoshio Bando ,
Pavel Dorozhkin  and
Zhen-Chao Dong
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Abstract

Nanotubular structures in the B-C-N ceramic system represent an intriguing alternative to conventional carbon nanotubes.Because of the ability to widely vary the chemical composition of nanotubes within the B-C-N ternary phase diagram and to change the stacking of C-rich or BN-rich tubular shells in multiwalled structures, a wide horizon opens up for tuning nanostructure electrical properties.Pure carbon nanotubes are metals or narrow-bandgap semiconductors, depending on the helicity and diameter, whereas those of BN are insulators with a ∼5.0eV gap independent of these parameters.Thus, the relative B/C/N ratios and/or BN-rich and C-rich domain spatial arrangements, rather than tube helicity and diameter, are assumed to primarily determine the B-C-N nanotube electrical response.This characteristic is highly valuable for nanotechnology:while tube diameter and helicity are currently difficult to control, continuous doping of C with BN, or vice versa, proceeds relatively easily due to the isostructural nature of layered C and BN materials.In this article, recent progress in the synthesis, microscopic analysis, and electrical property measurements of a variety of compound nanotubes in the ceramic B-C-N system is documented and discussed.

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ceramic nanostructureselectrical propertiesnanotubestransmission electron microscopy (TEM)
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 29 , Issue 1: Toward Applications of Ceramic Nanostructures , January 2004 , pp. 38 - 42
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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