title: Nanostructured BN-Mg composites: features of interface bonding and mechanical properties.
abstract: Magnesium (Mg) is one of the lightest industrially used metals. However, wide applications of Mg-based components require a substantial enhancement of their mechanical characteristics. This can be achieved by introducing small particles or fibers into the metal matrix. Using first-principles calculations, we investigate the stability and mechanical properties of a nanocomposite made of magnesium reinforced with boron nitride (BN) nanostructures (BN nanotubes and BN monolayers). We show that boron vacancies at the BN/Mg interface lead to a substantial increase in BN/Mg bonding establishing an efficient route towards the development of BN/Mg composite materials with enhanced mechanical properties.
authors.affiliation: National University of Science and Technology MISiS, 4 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow, 119049, Russian Federation. dgkvashnin@gmail.com and Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, 4 Kosigina st., Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Dmitry G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Kvashnin
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, P.O. Box 11100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, 01328 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Arkady V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Krasheninnikov
authors.affiliation: National University of Science and Technology MISiS, 4 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow, 119049, Russian Federation. dgkvashnin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Dmitry
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shtansky
authors.affiliation: National University of Science and Technology MISiS, 4 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow, 119049, Russian Federation. dgkvashnin@gmail.com and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutsky lane, Dolgoprudny, 141700, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Pavel B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Sorokin
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan.
authors.forename: Dmitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Golberg