Objective This project will deal with a new nanostructured material - hexagonal BN in form of single-wall nanotubes(SWNT). SWNTs look like seamless mono-layer cylinders with diameter 0.5-3.0 nm and length up to tens of microns. Up to now the reliable synthesis of SWNT has been realized only for 2 materials: C and BN. Carbon SWNT have been investigated in detail, while a very little is known about BN SWNT. A leading group in this field is the ONERA team, headed by Dr. Annick Loiseau - Coordinator of this project. The team has performed the first BN SWNT synthesis and the investigations of their microscopic structural and optical properties. In this project 6 research teams, having modern equipment and an experience of nanotube investigations will join the ONERA team to extend the research potential and to make a breakthrough in solving three main problems: - optimization of a large-scale synthesis BN SWNT, - investigation of physical and chemical properties of BN SWNT, - analysis of possible technological applications of BN SWNT. The teams represent the leading physical and chemical institutes of i) Russian Academy of Sciences: - A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute (Moscow), - Boreskov Institute of Catalysis and Nikolaev Inorganic Chemistry Institute(Novosibirsk), - Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics (Chernogolovka), ii) France: - ONERA-CNRS (Chatillon, Palaiseau), - Institut des materiaux Jean Rouxel (Nantes) iii) Germany: - Leibnitz Institute for Solid State and Material Research (Dresden). These teams (in different combinations) had an informal collaboration and participated in different national and European projects: INTAS 97-1700, 00-237, FULPROP, SATURN, COMELCAN. The following methods of BN and C-BN SWNT synthesis will be used: CO2-laser ablation, arc discharge and substitutional CVD. Different approaches will be tried for BN SWNT purification and functionalization. Various techniques will be used for characterization of BN SWNT: - HRTEM, - AFM/ STM, - EELS, - photoemission spectroscopy, - X-ray diffraction and photoluminescence (PL), - Raman scattering (including surface-enhanced (SERS) and tip-enhanced (TERS) Raman), - optical absorption and PL, - laser-induced PL and incandescence, Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS), two-photon PL. Many original approaches will be developed: - design of new catalytic systems for BN SWNT synthesis, - in-situ Raman monitoring of the growth process of BN SWNT, - observation of atomically resolved STM-images of BN SWNT on gold substrates, - registration of enhanced Raman spectra of BN SWNT, - functionalization of BN SWNT (with water and halogens), - synthesis of BN-? peapods by filling of BN SWNT with C60 , C70 molecules, - field emission measurements for SWNT cathodes, - non-linear optical characterization of BNSWNT suspensions and films. A possibility of application of BN SWNT in vacuum electronics, optoelectronics, laser physics, non-linear optics and medicine will be analyzed. Keywords Clusters (including Fullerenes) Granular Media Optical Phenomena/Properties Spectroscopy Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES (ONERA) & CNRS EU contribution No data Address AVENUE DE LA DIVISION LECLERC, 29 CHÂTILLON S/ BAGNEUX France See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BORESKOV INSTITUTE OF CATALYSIS Russia EU contribution No data Address PROSPEKT AKAD. LAVRENTIEVA, 5 NOVOSIBIRSK See on map Total cost No data CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) France EU contribution No data Address RUE DE LA HAUSSINIÈRE, 2 NANTES See on map Total cost No data IFW-DRESDEN Germany EU contribution No data Address HELMHOLTZSTRASSE, 20 DRESDEN See on map Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF GENERAL PHYSICS, RAS Russia EU contribution No data Address VAVILOV STREET, 38 MOSCOW See on map Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS Russia EU contribution No data Address PROSP. AKAD. SEMENOVA, 1 CHERNOGOLOVKA, MOSCOW REGION See on map Total cost No data NIKOLAEV INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY Russia EU contribution No data Address PROSPEKT AKAD. LAVRENTIEVA, 3 NOVOSIBIRSK See on map Total cost No data
