Mathematical energy minimization model for joining boron nitride fullerene with several BN nanostructures

Nanoscale materials have gained considerable interest because of their special properties and wide range of applications. Many types of boron nitride at the nanoscale have been realized, including nanotubes, nanocones, fullerenes, tori, and graphene sheets. The connection of these structures at the nanoscale leads to merged structures that have enhanced features and applications. Modeling the joining between nanostructures has been adopted by different methods. Namely, carbon nanostructures have been joined by minimizing the elastic energy in symmetric configurations. In other words, the only considerable curvature in the elastic energy is the axial curvature. Accordingly, because it has nanoscale structures similar to those in carbon, BN can also be joined and connected by using this method. On the other hand, different methods have been proposed to consider the rotational curvature because it has a similar size. Based on that argument, the Willmore energy, which depends on both curvatures, has been minimized to join carbon nanostructures. This energy is used to identify the joining region, especially for a three-dimensional structure. In this paper, we expand the use of Willmore energy to cover the joining of boron nitride nanostructures. Therefore, because catenoids are absolute minimizers of this energy, pieces of catenoids can be used to connect nanostructures. In particular, we joined boron nitride fullerene to three other BN nanostructures: nanotube, fullerene, and torus. For now, there are no experimental or simulation data for comparison with the theoretical connecting structures predicted by this study, which is some justification for the suggested simple model shown in this research. Ultimately, various nanoscale BN structures might be connected by considering the same method, which may be considered in future work.

Nanotone spatial dissipative structures with rotational curving of the grid around three mutually perpendicular directions

Transmission electron microscopy and microdiffraction have been used to investigate nanothin spatial dissipative structures (SDS) obtained by thermogradient processing of an amorphous selenium film by one-sided heating of its lower surface at T = 413 K. It has been established that the obtained nanothin SDS of hexagonal selenium possess a specific curved habit and a nonlinear fan-shaped system of bending contours in their electron-microscopic image; the lattice of nanothin SDS undergoes an elastic-plastic rotational curvature around three mutually perpendicular directions; the lattice rotation angles of nanothin SDS hexagonal selenium reach: around [001], 25, around the direction perpendicular to [001] and lying in the plane of the amorphous film 32, around the direction perpendicular to the first two and not lying in the plane of the amorphous film 35.

Uniform Estimates for Damped Radon Transform on the Plane

Uniform improving estimates of damped plane Radon transforms in Lebesgue and Lorentz spaces are studied under mild assumptions on the rotational curvature. The results generalize previously known estimates. Also, they extend sharp estimates known for convolution operators with affine arclength measures to the semitranslation-invariant case.