News tagged with boron atoms


A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes

A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 27, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (40) | comments 0

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

created Apr 23, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 0

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

Boron-based compounds trick a biomedical protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(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

Scientists Discover Material Harder Than Diamond

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (48) | comments 28

(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

Scientists design new super-hard material

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (85) | comments 0

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

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(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

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created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 0

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

Chemistry /

created Apr 24, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (53) | comments 0

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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