Fabrication of Closed-Packed and Highly Aligned Boron Nitride Nanotube/Polymer Complexes
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Boron Nitride Nanotube (BNNT) have attracted for their excellent physical properties and wide range of potential applications such as thermally conducting, piezoelectric materials. For practical application of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) with excellent thermal, electrical and mechanical properties, however, it is very important to control their morphology. Therefore, we made a complex of hydrophilic modified BNNTs and a Pluronic triblock copolymer having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic group. To identify the morphological behavior of BNNTs, the well mixed BNNTs/Pluronic copolymer complexes were measured by small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) technique upon heating. In this presentation, we report the highly aligned and closed-packed hexagonal structures of BNNT/Pluronic copolymer complexes.