title: Longitudinal splitting of boron nitride nanotubes for the facile synthesis of high quality boron nitride nanoribbons.
abstract: Boron nitride nanoribbons (BNNRs), the boron nitride structural equivalent of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), are predicted to possess unique electronic and magnetic properties. We report the synthesis of BNNRs through the potassium-intercalation-induced longitudinal splitting of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs). This facile, scalable synthesis results in narrow (down to 20 nm), few sheet (typically 2-10), high crystallinity BNNRs with very uniform widths. The BNNRs are at least 1 μm in length with minimal defects within the ribbon plane and along the ribbon edges.
authors: Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
authors: Kris J
authors: KJ
authors: Erickson
authors: Ashley L
authors: AL
authors: Gibb
authors: Alexander
authors: A
authors: Sinitskii
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Rousseas
authors: Nasim
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authors: Alem
authors: James M
authors: JM
authors: Tour
authors: Alex K
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authors: Zettl