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    Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. It exists in various crystalline...
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    the mineral sodium borate, and the ultra-hard crystals of boron carbide and boron nitride. Boron is synthesized entirely by cosmic ray spallation and supernovas...
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    Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) are a polymorph of boron nitride. They were predicted in 1994 and experimentally discovered in 1995. Structurally they...
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    GPa, it is one of the hardest known materials, behind cubic boron nitride and diamond. Boron carbide was discovered in the 19th century as a by-product...
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  • Thus, cubic boron nitride, titanium nitride, and silicon nitride are used as cutting materials and hard coatings. Hexagonal boron nitride, which adopts...
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    Boron nitride nanosheet is a crystalline form of the hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), which has a thickness of one atom. Similar in geometry as well as...
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    compounds. The intrinsic group includes diamond, cubic boron nitride (c-BN), carbon nitrides, and ternary compounds such as B-N-C, which possess an innate...
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    the boron nitride to form magnesium nitride, which was the true catalyst. Magnesium nitride has also been applied to synthesize aluminum nitride nanocrystals...
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    Boron nitride aerogel is an aerogel made of highly porous boron nitride (BN). It typically consists of a mixture of deformed boron nitride nanotubes and...
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  • components by the use of graphene as electrical conductor, hexagonal boron nitride as electrical insulator, and a transition metal dichalcogenide as semiconductor...
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  • in CV joints and space vehicles. Does lubricate in vacuum. Hexagonal boron nitride. Used in space vehicles. Also called "white graphite." Tungsten disulfide...
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    nanotubes. In the diamond-like structure, called cubic boron nitride (tradename Borazon), boron atoms exist in the tetrahedral structure of carbon atoms...
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    capacitive method. A research team built an experimental system using boron nitride that produced much greater power than the Statkraft prototype. It used...
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  • Two dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (2D h-BN) is a material of comparable structure to graphene with potential applications in e.g. photonics., fuel...
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  • "Determination of the optical band-gap energy of cubic and hexagonal boron nitride using luminescence excitation spectroscopy" (PDF). Journal of Physics:...
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  • Borazon (category Nitrides)
    Borazon is a brand name of a cubic form of boron nitride (cBN). Its color ranges from black to brown and gold, depending on the chemical bond. It is one...
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    Silicon nitride is a chemical compound of the elements silicon and nitrogen. Si 3N 4 (Trisilicon tetranitride) is the most thermodynamically stable and...
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  • Graphene-Boron Nitride nanohybrid materials are a class of compounds created from graphene and boron nitride nanosheets. Graphene and boron nitride both contain...
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    and finished only with abrasives of superior hardness such as cubic boron nitride and diamond powder, wheels and compounds. Tungsten carbide tools can...
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    Gallium nitride (GaN) is a binary III/V direct bandgap semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes since the 1990s. The compound is a very...
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  • gallium nitride (GaN) is used to make blue LEDs and laser diodes, and boron nitride (BN) is proposed for blue LEDs. Quantum mechanics gives rise to a series...
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    "Silane-catalysed fast growth of large single-crystalline graphene on hexagonal boron nitride". Nature Communications. 6: 6499. arXiv:1503.02806. Bibcode:2015NatCo...
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  • react with boron in steel to form B2O3 (boron trioxide); Fe3(CB) (iron boroncementite) and Fe23(CB)6 (iron boroncarbide); and BN (boron nitride) respectively...
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    wavelengths were obtained in laboratories using aluminium nitride (210 nm), boron nitride (215 nm) and diamond (235 nm). There are two primary ways of...
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  • quantum mechanical molecular dynamics simulations showed graphyne and its boron nitride analogues to be stable. The existence of graphyne was conjectured before...
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    spectroscopy in 1990 when it was prepared by an ammonia-free route. Boron nitride reacts with iodine monofluoride in trichlorofluoromethane at −30 °C...
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    Borazine (category Boron heterocycles)
    catalyst. Borazines undergo nucleophilic attack at boron and electrophilic attack at nitrogen. Boron nitride can be prepared by heating polyborazylene to 1000 °C...
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    2011. Retrieved 1 September 2010. "What is the density of Hydrogenated Boron Nitride Nanotubes (H-BNNT)?". space.stackexchange.com. Archived from the original...
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    Anisotropic Metamaterials," PIER Lett, Vol. 34, pp. 75–82, 2012. "Combat Boron Nitride" (PDF). Saint Gobain. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February...
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    gallium arsenide (GaAs) or diamond or iridium, and graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Heteroepitaxy occurs when a film of different composition and/or...
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