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Graphene, a sheet of carbon one atom thick, may soon have a new nanomaterial partner. In the lab and on supercomputers, chemical engineers have determined that a unique arrangement of 36 boron ...
Boron, which is next to carbon in the periodic table, has one electron less than carbon. This electron deficiency gives rise to its strong bonding ability and diverse boron polymorphs. Despite ...
So-called boron vacancy electron spin qubits also offered a tantalizing path to controlling the nuclear spin of the nitrogen atoms surrounding each electron spin qubit in the lattice. In this work, Li ...
The experiment, being about a factor of 2000 more precise than the theoretical prediction, is a benchmark for future advances in atomic QED. As a crucial data-point for boron-like systems at ...
Fig. 1: (Top) An electron microscopy image of an atomically thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride with triangle-shaped holes corresponding to missing atoms. (Bottom) Schematic diagram of the boron ...
Recent studies have highlighted that beyond their structural novelty, boron clusters exhibit complex electronic interactions that are underpinned by aromaticity and extensive electron delocalisation.
(Nanowerk News) Graphene is a two-dimensional honeycomb of carbon, just one atom thick, whose intriguing electronic properties include very high electron mobility and very low resistivity. Graphene is ...
As boron has only three valence electrons, the electron deficiency makes a honeycomb lattice of boron energetically unstable.
ANCIENT alchemists wanted to transform common metals into gold. Now chemists have achieved a more subtle modern-day equivalent – converting the element boron from an acid to a base. The work ...
So-called boron vacancy electron spin qubits also offered a tantalizing path to controlling the nuclear spin of the nitrogen atoms surrounding each electron spin qubit in the lattice.