Technical Boron Nitride Applications - Overview
The application possibilities of hexagonal Boron Nitride are extensive. Here is a short but by no means exhaustive overview.
| Existing and potential applications for hexagonal Boron Nitride | ||||||
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Property desired |
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| HeBoFill® Boron
Nitride Powder and HeBoCoat® Boron Nitride Suspensions |
high- temperature refractoriness |
thermal conductivity |
electrical insulator |
chemical inertness, nonwetting |
lubricity |
machining ease |
| Solid lubricant for high-temperature bearings | ||||||
| Mold release for die casting of glass and metals | ||||||
| Active filler for rubber, resins, and plastics | ||||||
| Additive in oils and high-temperature greases | ||||||
| Ultrahigh-pressure transmitting agent | ||||||
| Coating for evaporation plants, as release agent for deposited metal films | ||||||
| Raw material for cubic Boron Nitride | ||||||
| Constituent for cosmetic applications | ||||||
| Tundish coatings for nonferrous metals | ||||||
| Mold release for injection molding of plastics | ||||||
| Coating for graphite hot-pressing molds | ||||||
| Embedding medium for heating wires | ||||||
| Boron source for preparation of other Boron compounds | ||||||
HeBoSint® Boron Nitride Sintered Components |
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| Crucibles for melting glass and metals | ||||||
| Break rings for horizontal continuous casting of high-alloy steels | ||||||
| Spanker plates used in the production of TV tubes | ||||||
| End-dam material for thin-strip casting | ||||||
| Seal rings for gas sensors (lambda sensor) | ||||||
| Components for high-temperature electric furnaces | ||||||
| Structural parts for magnetohydrodynamic devices (MHD) | ||||||
| Dielectrics for radar antennas and windows | ||||||
| Insulators for low- and high-frequency equipment | ||||||
| Insulators for plasma-jet furnace, arc pulse generators, and ion engines | ||||||
| Holders, mounting plates, substrates, and heat sinks in valve circuits and transistor circuits | ||||||
| Pump components, pipes, and nozzles for liquid metals handling | ||||||
| Protective tubes and insulating sleeves for thermocouples | ||||||
| Wafers for boron doping of semiconductors | ||||||
| Crucibles for crystal growth | ||||||
| Wafer heatings | ||||||
| Molds for hot-pressing of technical ceramics like B6O or B6.5C | ||||||
| Neutron absorbers and shields for nuclear reactors | ||||||
| Evaporation boats | ||||||
Boron Nitride applications
Details
of Boron Nitride industrial applications
Details of Boron Nitride technical properties