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. ... Selective binding and periodic arrangement of magic boron clusters on monolayer borophene.

Recent studies have highlighted that beyond their structural novelty, boron clusters exhibit complex electronic interactions that are underpinned by aromaticity and extensive electron delocalisation.

Boron nitride (BN) is a soft material and a good lubricant, similar to graphite. It also has the same honeycomb arrangement of atoms (Fig. 1, bottom) as single-layered graphene or carbon nanotubes ...

A crucial property of the electron within QED is the so-called g factor, ... So far, the only boron-like g factor has been measured with high precision for argon ions with a proton number Z of 18.

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.

Since graphene was first isolated in 2004, researchers have sought similar 2D materials, particularly those with different or complementary properties. One atom of interest is boron, which is the only ...

Electron-starved acids gravitate … ANCIENT alchemists wanted to transform common metals into gold. Now chemists have achieved a more subtle modern-day equivalent – converting the element boron ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — By using photons and electron spin qubits to control nuclear spins in a two-dimensional material, researchers at Purdue University have opened a new frontier in quantum science ...