Issue 10, 2002
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Straight boron carbidenanorods prepared from carbon nanotubes

Jinquan Wei,*a   Bin Jiang,a   Yanhui Li,a   Cailu Xu,a   Dehai Wua  and  Bingqing Weib  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
E-mail: jqwei99@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

b Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

Abstract

Boron carbide nanorods were prepared on a large scale directly from the reaction of carbon nanotubes with boron powder at 1150 °C. The bent carbon nanotubes transform into straight nanorods during the reaction. The atomic ratio of B to C in the nanorods is very close to 4 ∶ 1, corresponding to the compound B4C. Carbon nanotubes act here as templates at the beginning of the formation and as a carbon source for the growth of the boron carbide nanorods.

Graphical abstract: Straight boron carbide nanorods prepared from carbon nanotubes

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B204792F
Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 May 2002
Accepted
25 Jul 2002
First published
19 Aug 2002

J. Mater. Chem., 2002,12, 3121-3124

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Straight boron carbide nanorods prepared from carbon nanotubes

J. Wei, B. Jiang, Y. Li, C. Xu, D. Wu and B. Wei, J. Mater. Chem., 2002, 12, 3121 DOI: 10.1039/B204792F

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