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Chemistry World November 12, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Flat boron first looks promising for nano-electronics The super hard material, which was formed by two-stage chemical vapor deposition, has unusual properties for a two-dimensional material that could potentially make it very useful in nano-electronics. |
Chemistry World January 24, 2010 Andy Extance |
Boron cluster forms unique ring system Clusters of nineteen boron atoms gather together in a ring structure unlike any other seen, with two planar -bonded aromatic systems nestled inside one another. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2013 Tim Wogan |
Pressure to form exotic ionic salts irresistible for nitrogen Researchers have used computer algorithms to calculate nitrogen structures at pressures far beyond the reach of current experimental determinations. Most notably, they calculated that it could form an ionic salt in which both the cations and anions were nitrogen. |
Chemistry World July 14, 2014 Tim Wogan |
First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China. |
Chemistry World February 6, 2012 David Bradley |
10 out of 10 for boron's coordinated effort A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. |
Chemistry World December 19, 2013 Andy Extance |
New sodium chlorides assault chemical rules The discovery that NaCl 3 and Na 3Cl can be stable at increased pressures shows that core chemistry principles can be overturned. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Boron and beryllium finally shake hands Beryllium bis(diazaborolyl) features the first non-cluster bond between boron and beryllium. |
Chemistry World July 7, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Buckyball boron Systematic structure-searching calculations performed by scientists in China have put forward an all-boron analogue of fullerene: B 38. |
Chemistry World January 19, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Happy Families for Aluminium Chemists have discovered that aluminium - a notoriously anti-social element compared with its sister boron - may in fact form an unexpected family of hydride clusters. |
Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Caryl Richards |
Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth. |
Chemistry World June 14, 2012 David Bradley |
Tripling up on boron bonds Carbon and nitrogen are well known for their triple bonds, but making stable compounds with a triple bond between two boron atoms hadn't been achieved despite the computational possibilities. Until now. |
Chemistry World August 21, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Double bonding with silicon In a landmark for silicon chemistry, US researchers have reported the first stable silicon (0) compound to contain a silicon-silicon double bond. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2006 Mark Peplow |
Boron Shows Its Negative Side A molecule that hosts a negatively-charged boron atom could prove to be an exciting addition to the chemist's toolbox, according to researchers who have isolated the anion as its lithium salt. |
Chemistry World September 28, 2011 Laura Howes |
Conjuring up gram quantities of a stabilising anion For a certain breed of inorganic chemist, weakly coordinating anions are great - they hardly interact with their positive counterparts and so can stabilise unstable cations. |
Chemistry World May 22, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Materials 'sandwich' superconducts Scientists in Japan have made a 'superconducting sandwich' from two materials are not superconductors in isolation. The technique could be used to make electronic circuits with extremely low power consumption, the researchers suggest. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Superhard Material Made at Ambient Pressure Inorganic chemists in the U.S. have synthesized a material that rivals the hardness of diamond, without needing to use extremely high pressure. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Anisha Ratan |
Boroles get a stability boost Scientists from Germany have reported a breakthrough in borole stability, using bulky fluoromesityl groups, which could help these anti-aromatic molecules realize their potential in optoelectronic devices. |
Chemistry World May 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Borosulfate breaks through Henning Hoppe, together with a team from the University of Augsburg and Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg in Germany, created potassium borosulfate - K 5[B(SO 4) 4] - by heating potassium sulfate with boric and sulfuric acids. |
Chemistry World January 13, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Ammonia freezes up under pressure Researchers in France have shown that when molecular ammonia is put under enormous pressure, it becomes unstable and then forms a solid ionic ice. |
Chemistry World February 16, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Surprise Discovery That Ionic Liquids Can be Distilled Green solvents are now easier to recycle and purify, following the discovery that ionic liquids are volatile and can be distilled. |
Chemistry World July 29, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
240 boron atoms in a single molecular species The unique supramolecular cuboctahedron contains 240 boron atoms and was synthesized by Chad Mirkin and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, via coordination-driven assembly. |
Chemistry World December 10, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2014 Highlights from last year's ground breaking chemical sciences research. |
Chemistry World March 16, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Making 'armoured' T-shirts Boron carbide - the third hardest material on earth - has been built into the fabric of cotton T-shirts, dramatically increasing its toughness. |
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Ceramic Armor Advance Achieved A researcher has perfected a process that makes boron carbide harder and poreless in high temperature manufacturing. The result is a material with remarkable ballistic armor properties. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Jennifer Newton |
Graphene looks to doped superbenzene to overcome electronic hurdles Building graphene from carefully-modified superbenzene segments has been proposed as a way to help graphene overcome a major stumbling block limiting its application in electronic devices. |
Chemistry World June 5, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Boron nitride Pringle predicted to be frequent flapper Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US, were so inspired after reading about the graphene Pringles reported last year that they decided to investigate equivalents made from boron and nitrogen. |