Just as carbon makes up both the brittle core of a No. 2 pencil and the harder-than-steel diamond in a cutting tool, boron nitride gives rise to compounds that can be soft or hard. Yet ...

A team of physicists at the University of Cambridge has unveiled a breakthrough in quantum sensing by demonstrating the use ...

A fascinating look at why researchers believe using boron nitride as an electronics insulator could lead to broader technological progress and better device performance. Electronics engineers ...

Whatever the plot details, scientifically minded scriptwriters would do well to turn their attention to cubic boron nitride, a material that in many ways resembles diamond. Boron nitride can be ...

Easy: you create a new material that's even harder than diamond. "Ultrahard nanotwinned cubic boron nitride," describes how researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of New Mexico ...

Chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds. Rice ...

Graphene and a form of boron nitride called hexagonal boron nitride fall into the latter group. Graphene is made up of carbon atoms. Boron nitride, BN, is composed of boron and nitrogen atoms.

Cubic boron nitride, a synthetic material, comes in at second place. That is, until researchers got their hands on an alternate crystal structure of boron nitride and observed a unique atomic bond ...

The Rice lab of materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari determined in a new computational study that pillared boron nitride and graphene could be a candidate. Shahsavari’s lab had already determined ...

The two main types of boron nitride used in industry are hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and cubic boron nitride (c-BN). h-BN, particularly in its 2D form, is a stable material with electrical ...

Boron nitride (BN is a synthetic material, which although discovered in the early 19 th century was not developed as a commercial material until the latter half of the 20 th century. Boron and ...