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Chemical Communications

Sonication-assisted alcoholysis of boron nitride nanotubes for their sidewalls chemical peeling†

Dukeun Kim,a   Sayuka Nakajima,a   Toshiki Sawada,a   Mahiro Iwasaki,a   Susumu Kawauchi,a   Chunyi Zhi,b   Yoshio Bando,c   Dmitri Golbergc  and  Takeshi Serizawa*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
E-mail: serizawa@polymer.titech.ac.jp

b Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Av., Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

c International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

Abstract

Boron nitride (BN)-based nanomaterials attract considerable attention due to their unique properties. In this study, we found that sonication treatment of multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) in primary alcohols had led to chemical peeling of their sidewalls through alcoholysis, thereby producing boron nitride nanoribbons (BNNRs).

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC00388A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Jan 2015
Accepted
16 Feb 2015
First published
17 Feb 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 7104-7107

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Sonication-assisted alcoholysis of boron nitride nanotubes for their sidewalls chemical peeling

D. Kim, S. Nakajima, T. Sawada, M. Iwasaki, S. Kawauchi, C. Zhi, Y. Bando, D. Golberg and T. Serizawa, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 7104 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00388A

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