Engineered Composite News Today

A team of engineers has created centimeter-scale structures that are composed of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and loaded with hundreds of billions of hollow aligned fibers (nanotubes).

MIT engineers synthesized aligned forests of nanoscale fibers made of boron nitride, or “white graphene.” They hope to harness the technique to fabricate bulk-scale arrays of these nanotubes, which can then be combined with other materials to make stronger, more heat-resistant composites, for instance to shield space structures and hypersonic aircraft.

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