Liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materials
Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTS) have only been shown to dissolve in chlorosulfonic acid (CSA) at low concentrations. Here the authors successfully demonstrate the formation of liquid crystals of BNNTs in CSA that can be used to produce macroscopically aligned neat fibers of BNNTs.
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| author | Cedric J. Simonsen Ginestra Cecilia Martínez-Jiménez Asia Matatyaho Ya’akobi Oliver S. Dewey Ashleigh D. Smith McWilliams Robert J. Headrick Jesus A. Acapulco Lyndsey R. Scammell Michael W. Smith Dmitry V. Kosynkin Daniel M. Marincel Cheol Park Sang-Hyon Chu Yeshayahu Talmon Angel A. Martí Matteo Pasquali |
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| description | Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTS) have only been shown to dissolve in chlorosulfonic acid (CSA) at low concentrations. Here the authors successfully demonstrate the formation of liquid crystals of BNNTs in CSA that can be used to produce macroscopically aligned neat fibers of BNNTs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b313af611be746a1bb598811180b38b22022-12-22T02:29:21ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232022-06-011311810.1038/s41467-022-30378-5Liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materialsCedric J. Simonsen Ginestra0Cecilia Martínez-Jiménez1Asia Matatyaho Ya’akobi2Oliver S. Dewey3Ashleigh D. Smith McWilliams4Robert J. Headrick5Jesus A. Acapulco6Lyndsey R. Scammell7Michael W. Smith8Dmitry V. Kosynkin9Daniel M. Marincel10Cheol Park11Sang-Hyon Chu12Yeshayahu Talmon13Angel A. Martí14Matteo Pasquali15Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice UniversityDepartment of Chemistry, Rice UniversityDepartment of Chemical Engineering and The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), Technion-Israel Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice UniversityDepartment of Chemistry, Rice UniversityDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice UniversityDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice UniversityBNNT Materials, LLCBNNT Materials, LLCDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice UniversityDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice UniversityAdvanced Materials and Processing Branch, NASA Langley Research CenterNational Institute of AerospaceDepartment of Chemical Engineering and The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), Technion-Israel Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Chemistry, Rice UniversityDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice UniversityBoron nitride nanotubes (BNNTS) have only been shown to dissolve in chlorosulfonic acid (CSA) at low concentrations. Here the authors successfully demonstrate the formation of liquid crystals of BNNTs in CSA that can be used to produce macroscopically aligned neat fibers of BNNTs.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30378-5 |
| spellingShingle | Cedric J. Simonsen Ginestra Cecilia Martínez-Jiménez Asia Matatyaho Ya’akobi Oliver S. Dewey Ashleigh D. Smith McWilliams Robert J. Headrick Jesus A. Acapulco Lyndsey R. Scammell Michael W. Smith Dmitry V. Kosynkin Daniel M. Marincel Cheol Park Sang-Hyon Chu Yeshayahu Talmon Angel A. Martí Matteo Pasquali Liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materials Nature Communications |
| title | Liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materials |
| title_full | Liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materials |
| title_fullStr | Liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materials |
| title_short | Liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materials |
| title_sort | liquid crystals of neat boron nitride nanotubes and their assembly into ordered macroscopic materials |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30378-5 |
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