Tuesday 15 July 2014

Researchers discover boron "buckyball"

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Researchers discover boron "buckyball"
Providence RI (SPX) Jul 15, 2014 - The discovery of buckyballs - soccer-ball-shaped molecules of carbon - helped usher in the nanotechnology era. Now, Lai-Sheng Wang's research group and colleagues from China have shown that boron, carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, can form a cage-like molecule similar to the buckyball. Until now, such a boron structure had only been a theoretical speculation. The researchers dubbed ... more


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