How to Order
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To place an order for BNNT SP10 products, please review the below shipping information, SDS, and complete our secure quote request form. A BNNT representative will promptly follow-up once form information is received.
Shipping and Handling
Shipping will usually be via FedEx or UPS. All shipments are fully insured and require a signature for delivery. Charges will be added for any special handling, special export control filings and import/export fees.
United States: $50 for up to 1 gram. $15 additional per gram or fraction thereof for amounts above 1 gram.
International: $150 for up to 1 gram. $15 additional per gram or fraction thereof for amounts above 1 gram.
Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
The English version of the SDS will be included in all shipments. If an SDS version is needed in a different language or meeting different requirements, include this in the order; additional charges may be incurred. If the emergency phone contact in the SDS must be in the receiving country and speak that country’s language, additional charges may be incurred.
BNNT SP10 Technical Data
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BNNT, LLC tubes are synthesized using the high temperature/high pressure (HTP) method, also called the pressurized vapor/condenser (PVC) method. This method produces highly flexible, large aspect ratio BNNTs with high crystallinity. Key specifications of our material are summarized in the table below.
h-BN content | >99% (refined materials) |
Residual Impurities | Refined materials contain <1 wt.% elemental boron |
Tap Density | Low, ~0.25 mg/cm3 |
Defect density | Extremely low (BNNTs flex and recover when bent) |
Band gap | 5.7 eV (direct measurement by low energy EELS) |
Surface area | up to 400 m2/g (by multipoint BET) |
Network | many isolated tubes, bundles up to 5 tubes (by TEM) |
Number of walls | 1 to 5 walls are typical, 2 or 3 walls are most common (by TEM) |
BNNT length | up to 200 μm (by SEM), longer suspected |
Below are photos of our current puffball, powder, and mat products. (back, left to right) SP10 puffball, SP10-R puffball, SP10-R-P powder, and (front) SP10-R-M mat. The as-grown puffball material has a cotton-like appearance with a very low tap density as shown in the photo below.
BNNT Background
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BNNT (Boron Nitride Nanotubes) will be the basis for industry game changing revolutionary new materials and processes.
- Ultra lightweight aerospace structures: polymer and metal matrix composites with unprecedented strength, even at high temperatures.
- Membranes, filters and catalyst: energy enhancements from filtering salt water to high temperature filters and thermal conductors.
- Killing cancer: already lab results for significant enhancement of irreversible electroporation.
- Winning sports equipment: the most advanced materials where weight, strength and endurance count.
Key BNNT properties include [1,2,3]:
- Matches strength of Carbon Nanotubes (CNT); BNNT and CNT are the strongest two fibers that will ever be made.
- Actually fibril, i.e. few wall very very long tubes (this has not yet been achieved for CNT in any quantity and may never be achieved).
- Maintain strength to over 900°C; CNT start losing strength at 400°C.
- Thermally very conductive.
- Electrically an insulator.
- White/clear.
- Functionizable.
- Possibly no cytotoxic effects [4,5].
Discovery & Innovation
- Science --> the few wall novel materials with their unique chemistry will be the basis for scientific discoveries on the same scale as has taken place with CNT.
- Product R&D --> the first few tests with compositing and biomedicine indicate that BNNT can be used for making innovative products that will make global market impacts.
- Game changing products --> recent discoveries will result in the materials soon becoming available at prices and quantities that support long term investment for profitable products.
BNNT, LLC's goal is to provide the raw and purified BNNT for science, product R&D and game changing products.
BNNT Historical Timeline
1994-2009: In 1994, Marvin Cohen (UC Berkeley) [1] theorized the existence of Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNTs), similar to carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and in the following year Alex Zettl [2,3] first synthesized BNNTs using the arc discharge/arc-jet plasma method. In the past 15 years the state-of-the-art has been nanotubes either short (0.1 to 1 micron) and fulleretic or long, riddled with defects these tubes frequently having wavy walls, elbows, herringbone or bamboo-like morphologies. For the past fifteen years, the quantities of high quality/fulleretic BNNTs have typically only been milligrams; the quantities of the longer but defect laden tubes can be at the level of multiple grams.
2009-2010: Recently very long, small diameter, single and few-walled BNNT in macroscopic quantities have been produced [5]. A high temperature 'pressurized vapor/condenser' (PVC) method yields, without catalysts, the highly crystalline BNNTs. Nanotube lengths are observed to be 100 times that of those grown by the most closely related method. The new synthesis technique is scalable to gram quantities, and preserves the desirable morphology of small diameter, few-walled tubes. The technique produces tubes of extraordinary length, giving the raw material the appearance of conventional textile fibers. This fibril appearance is further reinforced by natural macroscopic alignment of the as-grown material.
The techniques for synthesizing BNNT were developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia in collaboration with NASA Langley Research Center and the National Institute of Aerospace using the Office of Naval Research funded Free-Electron Laser.