Facile Synthesis of Ternary Boron Carbonitride Nanotubes

Facile Synthesis of Ternary Boron Carbonitride Nanotubes

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Abstract In this study, a novel and facile approach for the synthesis of ternary boron carbonitride (B–C–N) nanotubes was reported.Growth occurred by heating simple starting materials of boron powder, zinc oxide powder, and ethanol absolute at 1150 °C under a mixture gas flow of nitrogen and hydrogen.As substrate, commercial stainless steel foil with a callaway jaws gap wedge typical thickness of 0.05 mm played an additional role of catalyst during the growth of nanotubes.

The nanotubes were characterized by SEM, TEM, EDX, and EELS.The results indicate that the synthesized B–C–N nanotubes exhibit a bamboo-like morphology and B, C, and N elements are homogeneously distributed powell and mahoney bloody mary mix in the nanotubes.A catalyzed vapor–liquid–solid (VLS) mechanism was proposed for the growth of the nanotubes.