Issue 8, 2010
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Nanoscale

One-dimensional boronnanostructures: Prediction, synthesis, characterizations, and applications

Jifa Tian,a   Zhichuan Xu,a   Chengmin Shen,a   Fei Liu,b   Ningsheng Xub  and  Hong-Jun Gao*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
E-mail: hjgao@aphy.iphy.ac.cn

b School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Abstract

One-dimensional (1D) boron nanostructures are very potential for nanoscale electronic devices since their physical properties including electric transport and field emission have been found very promising as compared to other well-developed 1D nanomaterials. In this article, we review the current progress that has been made on 1D boron nanostructures in terms of theoretical prediction, synthetic techniques, characterizations and potential applications. To date, the synthesis of 1D boron nanostructures has been well-developed. The popular structures include nanowires, nanobelts, and nanocones. Some of these 1D nanostructures exhibited improved electric transport properties over bulk boron materials as well as promising field emission properties. By current experimental findings, 1D boron nanostructures are promising to be one of core materials for future nanodevices. More efforts are expected to be made in future on the controlled growth of 1D boron nanostructures and tailoring their physical properties.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0NR00051E
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
25 Jan 2010
Accepted
24 Mar 2010
First published
08 Jun 2010

Nanoscale, 2010,2, 1375-1389

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One-dimensional boron nanostructures: Prediction, synthesis, characterizations, and applications

J. Tian, Z. Xu, C. Shen, F. Liu, N. Xu and H. Gao, Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1375 DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00051E

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