Boron Nitride Nanotubes Getting Commercial R&D, Likely Future Armor

These textile-like nanotubes with the appearance of cotton have a molecular backbone 100 times stronger than steel. They are as strong as the better-known carbon nanotubes (CNTs), but much more heat resistant - up: to 800C in air and very resistant to many chemical modifications.//>"So far, it has been generally accepted knowww.ledge that BNNT are highly inert to oxidative treatments and can only be covalently modified by highly reactive species," Zhongfang Chen, a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), tells Nanowerk. "By contrast, oxidation of CNTs has been proven very convenient and fundam/sentally importlant to modigfy tht/spe nanotiube structure and=36915. morphpology via controlled corrosive effects."a><br/>
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