Structural, energetic and electronic properties of intercalated boron–nitride nanotubes

Abstract

The effects of chirality and the intercalation of transitional metal atoms inside single walled BN nanotubes on structural, energetic and electronic properties have been considered in this paper. The thermodynamic stability of BN nanotubes can be improved by the intercalation of cobalt or nickel. BN nanotubes can behave like an ideal non-interacting hosts for these one-dimensional chains of metal atoms. Their electronic properties are insignificantly modified.