The unique crystalline structures of Boron nitride (BN) play a pivotal role in determining its remarkable array of properties and applications, making BN a versatile and sought-after material in ...

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 ...

Chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds.

Boron nitride (BN) is a binary compound of the element boron which consists of equal proportions of boron and nitrogen and is used for coatings in reactors and insulation materials.

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.

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.

The nitrides of aluminium, gallium and indium have the hexagonal wurtzite structure. The nitride of boron, the lightest of the group III elements, has a graphite-like hexagonal layer lattice.

Researchers working with a form of boron nitride discovered a unique mechanism that allows it to become harder than diamond, making it the hardest material known. This would not last however, as ...

Rice University chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds.