A new coating for glass developed by Rice University researchers and collaborators could help reduce energy bills, especially ...

Move aside carbon: Boron nitride-reinforced materials are even stronger Date: December 22, 2015 Source: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Summary: When mixed with lightweight polymers, tiny ...

Just as carbon makes up both the brittle core of a No. 2 pencil and the harder-than-steel diamond in a cutting tool, boron nitride gives rise to compounds that can be soft or hard. Yet, unlike ...

Scientists at Rice University have succeeded in making energy-saving window coatings from boron nitride at room temperature.

Two forms of the same boron nitride molecules couldn’t look and act more different – but combining them could lead to applications that have the best of both worlds.

Langmuir – Oxygen and Lithium Doped Hybrid Boron-Nitride/Carbon Networks for Hydrogen Storage They focused the simulations on four variants: pillared structures of boron nitride or pillared boron ...

Yongjun Tian and the other researchers started with onion-like boron nitride particles shaped a bit like a flaky rose — or, as Tian describes them, like Matryoshka dolls.

Boron nitride already finds use in cutters that can slice through extremely tough materials, and Dubrovinskaia cites drilling for resource extraction as another application.

"An atomic conducting channel expands the application range of boron nitride infinitely, and opens new possibilities for all-hBN or all 2D nanoelectronic devices," points out the corresponding ...

Study shows a unique arrangement of these two materials creates a moiré pattern that may unlock graphene’s great potential.

Science Boron Nitride harder than diamond, but only momentarily Researchers working with a form of boron nitride discovered a unique mechanism … ...

Researchers have been exploring boron nitride (BN) nanomaterials - from nanotubes to nanosheets and nanoribbons - and found similarities, but also differences to the the properties of the ...