Boron nanotubes - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2005 Oct 14;6(10):2001-8.

doi: 10.1002/cphc.200500205.

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Boron nanotubes

Alexander Quandt et al. Chemphyschem. 2005.

Abstract

A survey of novel classes of nanotubular materials based on boron is presented. Pure boron nanotubes are a consequence of a general Aufbau principle for boron clusters and solid boron phases, which postulates various novel boron materials besides the well-known bulk phases of boron based on boron icosahedra. Furthermore, several numerical studies suggest the existence of a large family of compound nanotubular materials derived from crystalline AlB2. We compare these novel boron-based nanotubular materials to standard nanotubular systems built from carbon, and point out a number of remarkable structural and electronic properties that make boron-based nanotubular materials an ideal component for composite nanodevices and extended nanotubular networks.

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