Carbon nanotubes were originally created in the 1990s and have a multi-million dollar market due to its strength and electrical conductivity. About a year ago, the National Research Council of Canada began to expand the production of nanotubes made of light boron nitride, and it is predicted that in the next decade, BNNT will become an additive manufacturing material, just like carbon nanotubes. This day may come early, as researchers at the Deacon University's Frontier Materials Research Institute report that they successfully 3D printed a BNNT/titanium composite for the first time.
The large-scale 3D printing of BNNT is of great significance to many industries such as aerospace, defense, energy, automobile, and health.
