Transformations of Cold-Compressed Multiwalled Boron Nitride Nanotubes Probed by Infrared Spectroscopy
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Abstract
Multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) were compressed at room temperature in diamond anvil cells up to 35 GPa, followed by decompression. For the first time, in situ infrared absorption spectroscopy was used to monitor BNNT structural transformations. These BNNTs were found to undergo pressure-induced transformations from a hexagonal to a more closely packed wurtzite structure at 11 GPa, which is similar to that exhibited by bulk hexagonal BN (h-BN). However, when BNNTs are compressed, they exhibit quantitative differences compared with bulk h-BN in terms of transformation completeness and reversibility. Our findings provide unambiguous evidence that sp 3 bondings that form in significantly different yields originated from different morphologies of the starting BN materials. The unique transformation mechanism proposed for BNNTs provides new information for developing BNNTs as potential advanced materials with more desirable properties than those of carbon nanotubes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".