• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.6 no.1 s.18
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• pp.27-30
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• 2007

The gigahertz oscillator behavior of double-walled boron-nitride nanotube (BNNT) was investigated by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. The BNNT oscillator characteristics were compared to carbon-nanotube (CNT) and hybrid-C@BNNT oscillators. The results show that the BNNT oscillators are higher than the van der Waals force of the CNT oscillator. Since the frictional effects of BNNT oscillators are higher than that of a CNT oscillator, the damping factors of BNNT and hybrid oscillators are higher than that of a CNT oscillator.

• Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.1-20
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• 2017

질화붕소나노튜브(BNNT: Boron Nitride Nanotubes)는 근래에 들어 전 세계적으로 많은 주목을 받고 있는 나노신소재이다. CNT와 유사한 기계적 특성과 열전도, 열팽창 특성을 가지고 있지만 동시에 세라믹의 특성도 가지고 있어 열적/화학적 안정에 있어서는 CNT와 비교하여 매우 우수하다. 특히 BNNT를 구성하고 있는 붕소는 열중성자를 흡수할 수 있는 능력이 CNT를 구성하고 있는 탄소와 비교하여 20만 배나 높기 때문에, 우수한 기계적 특성을 이용한 경량화와 방사선 차폐능을 동시에 보유할 수 있는 미래 우주공학 물질로 매우 유용하다. 그러나 제조하는데 상대적으로 많은 에너지가 필요하고, 전 세계적으로 아직 대량생산이 이루어지지 않고 있으며, 제조 시 생성되는 불순물의 양이 많은 것이 단점이다. 또한 BNNT를 정제하는 것은 매우 어려워 산업적 응용은 아직 제한적이라 할 수 있지만, BNNT가 CNT와 세라믹의 특성을 동시에 보유하고 있다는 물질의 우수성과 활발한 연구개발 활동을 감안하면, 이에 대한 해결점을 찾을 수 있을 것으로 예상된다. 본 고찰에서는 다양한 BNNT의 제조방법과 각 방법의 장단점을 소개하고, 현재 연구되고 있는 BNNT의 산업적 응용에 대해 소개할 것이다. 이를 통해 국내에서 매우 미진한 BNNT 관련 연구가 활성화되는 계기가 될 것을 기대한다.

• Composites Research
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.350-355
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• 2024

Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) are materials of significant interest in next-generation technological fields due to their outstanding physicochemical properties, including excellent chemical and thermal stability. However, for effective utilization, dispersion of BNNT is essential. Unfortunately, BNNT exhibit hydrophobic surfaces and strong van der Waals forces, making their dispersion challenging. Current dispersion methods include the addition of surfactants and surface functionalization, but these chemical treatments often damage BNNT and involve cumbersome processes. In this study, we dispersed BNNT in water under various tip ultrasonication conditions and identified conditions that do not affect BNNT using FT-IR spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction analysis. Subsequently, enhanced dispersibility was confirmed through turbidity measurements, and the solubility range in 15 different solvents was evaluated using the Hansen solubility parameter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.179-179
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• 2016

A radio-frequency (RF) Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) torch system was used for boron-nitride nano-tube (BNNT) synthesis. Because of electrodeless plasma generation, no electrode pollution and effective heating transfer during nano-material synthesis can be realized. For stable plasma generation, argon and nitrogen gases were injected with 60 kW grid power in the difference pressure from 200 Torr to 630 Torr. Varying hydrogen gas flow rate from 0 to 20 slpm, the electrical and optical plasma properties were investigated. Through the spectroscopic analysis of atomic argon line, hydrogen line and nitrogen molecular band, we investigated the plasma electron excitation temperature, gas temperature and electron density. Based on the plasma characterization, we performed the synthesis of BNNT by inserting 0.5~1 um hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN) powder into the plasma. We analysis the structure characterization of BNNT by SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) and TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy), also grasp the ingredient of BNNT by EELS (Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy) and Raman spectroscopy. We treated bundles of BNNT with the atmospheric pressure plasma, so that we grow the surface morphology in the water attachment of BNNT. We reduce the advancing contact angle to purity bundles of BNNT.

• Composites Research
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.132-138
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• 2024

In this study, a molecular dynamics simulation study was performed to investigate the size-dependent electroelastic properties of single-walled boron nitride nanotubes(BNNT). To describe the elasticity and polarization of BNNT under mechanical loading, the Tersoff potential model and rigid ion approximation were adopted. For the prediction of piezoelectric constants and Young's modulus of BNNTs, piezoelectric constitutive equations based on the Maxwell's equation were used to calculate the strain-electric displacement and strain-stress relationships. It was found that the piezoelectric constants of BNNTs gradually decreases as the radius of the tubes increases showing a nonnegligible size effect. On the other hand, the elastic constants of the BNNTs showed opposites trends according to the equivalent geometrical assumption of the tubular structures. To establish the structure-property relationships, localized configurational change of the primarily bonded B-N bonded topology was investigated in detail to elucidate the BNNT curvature dependent elasticity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.299.1-299.1
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• 2013

넓은 표면적을 갖는 탄소나노튜브(CNT)는 기체 분자의 흡착 성능이 기존의 다른 흡착제에 비해 우수한 것으로 알려져 있으나, CNT의 물리/화학적 성질은 튜브의 직경과 기하 구조에 의해 큰 차이를 나타내며 정제가 매우 까다롭다는 단점을 가지고 있다. CNT와 외형적으로 매우 흡사한 질화붕소 나노튜브(BNNT)의 경우, 구조와 직경에 상관없이 열적, 화학적 안정성이 우수하여 $CO_2$를 비롯한 다른 공해 물질들의 제거제나 흡착제로서 응용 가능성이 매우 높다. 본 연구진은, BN-결함을 도입한 BNNT 벽면에서의 $CO_2$ 흡착 반응과 $CO_2$를 에너지 물질인 HCOOH와 $H_2CO_3$로 전환하는 반응에 대한 양자화학 이론 계산 연구를 수행하였다. 그 결과, $CO_2$에 대한 $B_N$-BNNT 흡착 성능이 튜브의 직경에 상관없이 매우 우수하였고, $B_N$-BNNT 벽면상에 흡착된 $CO_2$가 물 분자와 반응할 경우 HCOOH와 $H_2CO_3$로의 전환반응이 효과적으로 진행되었다. 이러한 이론 계산 연구 결과는 BN-BNNT가 $CO_2$ 흡착제 및 에너지 전환 촉매로의 응용 가능성을 훌륭히 제시하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.216-217
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• 2012

QM/MM 혼성 이론 방법인 ONIOM 계산을 통해, $CO_2$가 $B_N$-BNNT 벽면에서의 흡착 반응과 $H_2CO_3$로의 전환 반응 메커니즘을 규명함으로써 $B_N$-BNNT가 효과적인 $CO_2$ 흡착제와 $H_2CO_3$ 생성 반응 촉매로 개발 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.21-33
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• 2017

질화붕소나노튜브(BNNT: Boron Nitride Nanotube)는 뛰어난 기계적 물성과 전기적 절연성, 높은 열전도도, 열적/화학적 안정성 및 열중성자 흡수 등의 물리화학적 특성으로 인해 다양한 과학기술 분야에서 응용될 수 있는 소재이다. BNNT의 응용성을 증진시키기 위해서 정제 및 표면개질을 통해 BNNT 합성 공정 중 포함되는 불순물의 제거와 용매와 기재에 대한 상용성을 개선해야 할 필요성이 있다. 이에 본 기고에서는 BNNT의 정제 및 표면처리 연구동향에 대해 소개하고자 한다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.3285-3292
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• 2012

The interaction of thiazole drug with (6,0) zigzag single-walled boron nitride nanotube of finite length in gas and solvent phases was studied by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In both phases, the binding energy is negative and presenting characterizes an exothermic process. Also, the binding energy in solvent phase is more than that the gas phase. Binding energy corresponding to adsorption of thiazole on the BNNT model in the gas and solvent phases was calculated to be -0.34 and -0.56 eV, and about 0.04 and 0.06 electrons is transferred from the thiazole to the nanotube in the phases. The significantly changes in binding energies and energy gap values by the thiazole adsorption, shows the high sensitivity of the electronic properties of BNNT towards the adsorption of the thiazole molecule. Frontier molecular orbital theory (FMO) and structural analyses show that the low energy level of LUMO, electron density, and length of the surrounding bonds of adsorbing atoms help to the thiazole adsorption on the nanotube. Decrease in global hardness, energy gap and ionization potential is due to the adsorption of the thiazole, and consequently, in the both phases, stability of the thiazole-attached (6,0) BNNT model is decreased and its reactivity increased. Presence of polar solvent increases the electron donor of the thiazole and the electrophilicity of the complex. This study may provide new insight to the development of functionalized boron nitride nanotubes as drug delivery systems for virtual applications.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.93-109
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• 2019

In the present study, vibration analysis of double bonded micro sandwich cylindrical shells with saturated porous core and carbon/boron nitride nanotubes (CNT/BNNT) reinforced composite face sheets under multi-physical loadings based on Cooper-Naghdi theory is investigated. The material properties of the micro structure are assumed to be temperature dependent, and each of the micro-tubes is placed on the Pasternak elastic foundations, and mechanical, moisture, thermal, electrical, and magnetic forces are effective on the structural behavior. The distributions of porous materials in three distributions such as non-linear non-symmetric, nonlinear-symmetric, and uniform are considered. The relationship including electro-magneto-hydro-thermo-mechanical loadings based on modified couple stress theory is obtained and moreover the governing equations of motion using the energy method and the Hamilton's principle are derived. Also, Navier's type solution is also used to solve the governing equations of motion. The effects of various parameters such as material length scale parameter, temperature change, various distributions of nanotube, volume fraction of nanotubes, porosity and Skempton coefficients, and geometric parameters on the natural frequency of double bonded micro sandwich cylindrical shells are investigated. Increasing the porosity and the Skempton coefficients of the core in micro sandwich cylindrical shell lead to increase the natural frequency of the structure. Cylindrical shells and porous materials in the industry of filters and separators, heat exchangers and coolers are widely used and are generally accepted today.