Table 1.

Mechanical properties of BNNS and BNNTs determined by experiments.

Experimental Method	Young’s Modulus (TPa)
Nanoindentation measurement of few layer BNNS exfoliated from single crystal BN [1].	0.865 ± 0.073
IXS of BNNS crystal synthesized from Ba-B-N catalyst system under high temperature and pressure [11].	0.811
Nanoindentation measurement on defective BNNS synthesized by CVD from bulk BN crystal [12].	0.334 ± 0.024
AFM measurement on high quality BNNS synthesized from borazine precursor using CVD process [13].	1.16 ± 0.1
Thermal assisted vibration of cantilevered BNNT observed using TEM [14].	1.22 ± 0.24
Electric-field-induced technique to apply sinusoidal signal which induces vibration in BNNT [15].	0.505–1.031