Insights into the structure of BN nanotubes
- 25 September 2000
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 77 (13), 1979-1981
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1313251
Abstract
The following features of multiwalled BN nanotubes were discovered using a field emission high-resolution analytical transmission electron microscope: (i) coexistence of hexagonal and rhombohedral stacking in nanotube shell assembly; (ii) flattening of nanotube cross section, which makes possible clear atomic resolution of the core structure in a three-shelled nanotube; and (iii) change in chirality of tubular layers from armchair to zigzag arrangement in a 30° double-walled nanotube kink, as revealed by atomically resolved images of tube wall segments.Keywords
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