News tagged with boron atoms
A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To be useful in real-world applications, a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of molecules on a surface must have a stable and controllable geometry. Researchers at Penn State and the Sigma-Aldrich ...
Discovery of ionic elemental crystal against chemical intuition
Jan 29, 2009 |
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An ETH Zurich researcher has developed a computational method for predicting the structure of materials. He used it to solve the structure of a newly synthesized form of pure boron that displays some unusual physical properties ...
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New possibilities for boron nanotubes
Sep 27, 2007 |
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Even though some scientists have managed to grow boron nanotubes, the nature of their structure is unknown. Different theories have been proposed regarding boron nanotube make-up, but they often result in structures that ...
Bucky's brother -- The boron buckyball makes its debut
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 23, 2007 |
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A new study by Rice University scientists predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms.
Boron-based compounds trick a biomedical protein
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Chemists and biologists have successfully demonstrated that specially synthesized boron compounds are readily accepted in biologically active enzymes, a move that, they say, is a proof of concept that could ...
Boron-based compounds trick a biomedical protein
Sep 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists and biologists have successfully demonstrated that specially synthesized boron compounds are readily accepted in biologically active enzymes, a move that, they say, is a proof of concept that could ...
Synthesis with a template: Carbon-free fullerene analogue
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Manfred Scheer at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue.
Scientists Discover Material Harder Than Diamond
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, diamond is regarded to be the hardest known material in the world. But by considering large compressive pressures under indenters, scientists have calculated that a material called ...
Scientists design new super-hard material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Ultra-hard materials are used for everything from drills that bore for oil and build new roads to scratch-resistant coatings for precision instruments and the face of your watch.
New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To use hydrogen as a clean energy source, some engineers want to pack hydrogen into a larger molecule, rather than compressing the gas into a tank. A gas flows easily out of a tank, but getting ...
Carbon molecule with a charge could be tomorrow's semiconductor
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications.
Discovery of new family of pseudo-metallic chemicals
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discov ...
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