Issue 6, 2005
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Investigating the structure of boron nitride nanotubes by near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy†

Tirandai Hemraj-Benny,a   Sarbajit Banerjee,‡a   Sharadha Sambasivan,b   Daniel A. Fischer,b   Weiqiang Han,c   James A. Misewichd  and  Stanislaus S. Wong*ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
E-mail: sswong@notes.cc.sunysb.edu; sswong@bnl.gov

b Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg

c Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton

d Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg. 480, Upton

Abstract

Herein, we demonstrate that NEXAFS is a very effective technique at (a) identifying the phases of boron nitride nanotubes with the potential of distinguishing between hexagonal BN and cubic BN, and (b) monitoring the presence of defects and degree of crystallinity in nanoscale samples. Specifically, a prepared sample of boron nitride nanotubes was characterized by NEXAFS. Our results show that the sample consisted of hexagonal BN tubes that were highly crystalline and sp2-hybridized.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B415423A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Oct 2004
Accepted
09 Feb 2005
First published
17 Feb 2005

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2005,7, 1103-1106

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Investigating the structure of boron nitride nanotubes by near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy

T. Hemraj-Benny, S. Banerjee, S. Sambasivan, D. A. Fischer, W. Han, J. A. Misewich and S. S. Wong, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2005, 7, 1103 DOI: 10.1039/B415423A

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