Tetra-substituted alkenes – carbon–carbon double bonds surrounded by four different chemical groups – are a surprisingly ...

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 ...

Single boron and nitrogen vacancies can be created at intermediate electron energies, and boron is twice as likely to be ejected due to its lower mass.

But because boron has one less electron than carbon, it can't form the same 60-atom structure found in the buckyball. The missing electrons would cause the cluster to collapse on itself.

A research team led by Prof. YANG Liangbao from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences found that hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) could effectively block electron ...

Boron is a multipurpose element. It's a crucial nutrient for plants, an important component in the nuclear industry and the main ingredient of a bizarre fluid called oobleck. Perched next to ...

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 ...

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 ...

As boron has only three valence electrons, the electron deficiency makes a honeycomb lattice of boron energetically unstable.

A beam of electrons can “kick” single atoms out of a two-dimensional sheet of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in a controllable way, defying predictions that electron irradiation would be too damaging ...