SciTechDaily, Phys.org advance study of h-BN strength co-authored by Yang
SciTechDaily and Phys.org reported on a study co-authored by Yingchao Yang, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Maine, that revealed the unexpected strength of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Yang was a collaborator on the study conducted at Rice University and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore prior to his appointment to the faculty at UMaine. The team’s findings were published in the June 2 edition of Nature.