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SUBMITTER: Yeh YW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5465186 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170608 1
Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) were successfully synthesized by a dc arc discharge using a boron-rich anode as synthesis feedstock in a nitrogen gas environment at near atmospheric pressure. The synthesis was achieved independent of the cathode material suggesting that under such conditions the arc operates in so-called anodic mode with the anode material being consumed by evaporation due to the arc heating. To sustain the arc current by thermionic electron emission, the cathode has to be at su ...[more]