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

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Nearly 20 years ago researcher Alex Zettl of the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) synthesized in his laboratory a new material never before seen by nature: boron nitride nanotubes, the strongest, lightest, most thermally conducting and most chemically resistant fiber known to exist. Now a startup has licensed this technology with the aim of manufacturing boron nitride nanotubes for commercial use.

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/09/berkeley-lab-licenses-boron-nitride-nanotube-technology

http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=36915.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron_nitride#Boron_nitride_nanotubes

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2014-09-15 12:25
Boron Nitride Nanotubes Getting Commercial R&D, Likely Future Armor
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Nearly 20 years ago researcher Alex Zettl of the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)’'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) synthesized in his laboratory <a href="http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/09/berkeley-lab-licenses-boron-nitride-nanotube-technology">a new material never before seefound in by nature: boron nitride nanotubes, the strongest, lightest, most thermally conducting and most chemically resistant fiber known to exist. Now a startup has licensed this technology with the aim of manufacturing boron nitride nanotubes for commercial use.

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/09/berkeley-lab-licenses-boron-nitride-nanotube-technology

Nanowerk reports about this new material:
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/>
lockquote>There's more about tp://he material on.w Wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron_nitride#Boron_nitride_nanotubes.
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