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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 480, Issue 1-3, Pages 110-112Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.08.072
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- World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)
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We directly observed the Joule-heating-induced decomposition of multiwalled BN nanotubes using a transmission electron microscope equipped with a scanning tunneling microscope unit. The decomposition temperature is found to be dependent on an applied electrical field. We propose a model that due to the partially ionic nature of the B-N bond, the decomposition energy is both temperature- and electrical field-related: it is named as electrical field-assisted thermal decomposition. The model fits the experimental data very well and is considered to be general for all nanostructures with polar bonds. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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