Boron nitride analogs of fullerenes (the fulborenes), nanotubes, and fullerites (the fulborenites)

Citation
Vv. Pokropivny et al., Boron nitride analogs of fullerenes (the fulborenes), nanotubes, and fullerites (the fulborenites), J SOL ST CH, 154(1), 2000, pp. 214-222
Citations number
70
Categorie Soggetti
Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
Journal title
JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
ISSN journal
00224596 → ACNP
Volume
154
Issue
1
Year of publication
2000
Pages
214 - 222
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4596(200010)154:1<214:BNAOF(>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The molecules B12N12, B24N24 and B60N60 (named by us as fulborenes) have be en proposed as boron nitride analogs of the fullerenes, especially B60N60 a s the analog of C-60. Modified neglect of diatomic overlap computation was performed to confirm their stability. Multiwalled BN nanotubes and onions w ere produced by carbothermal synthesis. Their structure and mechanisms of g rowth and formation were studied by TEM, X-ray spectral microanalysis, and molecular dynamics techniques using B-B, B-N, and N-N original interatomic potentials. Ten possible zeolite-like crystals built from these molecules ( named by us as fulborenites) were predicted, and their lattice parameters a nd densities were calculated. Comparison with explosive experiments allow u s to identify the simple cubic fulborenite B12N12 with intermediate phase o f BN. New original ideas were suggested of: (i) a "hyper-diamond" based on B12N12-fulborenite with zincblende lattice, (ii) a "superdense diamond" bas ed on Me2B12N12-fulborenide with bcc lattice, and (iii) a quantum hypersoun d generator based on BN nanotube. (C) 2000 Academic Press.