Observation of an all-boron fullerene

HJ Zhai, YF Zhao, WL Li, Q Chen, H Bai, HS Hu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
After the discovery of fullerene-C60, it took almost two decades for the possibility of boron-
based fullerene structures to be considered. So far, there has been no experimental …

Photoelectron spectroscopy of size-selected boron clusters: from planar structures to borophenes and borospherenes

LS Wang - International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) in combination with computational chemistry has been
used systematically over the past decade to elucidate the structures and chemical bonding …

B 38: an all-boron fullerene analogue

J Lv, Y Wang, L Zhu, Y Ma - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerene-like structures formed by elements other than carbon have long been sought.
Finding all-boron (B) fullerene-like structures is challenging due to the geometrical …

First theoretical framework of superalkali metals [M3X (M= Li, Na, k; X= O, S, F, N)] doped all-boron B38 nanocluster: A promising class of nonlinear optical materials …

MU Khan, MRSA Janjua, J Yaqoob, R Hussain… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Developing highly efficient nonlinear optical (NLO) materials is an area of frontier research.
For the first time, all-boron fullerene analogue B38 nanocluster is utilized for creating highly …

B80 and B101–103 clusters: Remarkable stability of the core-shell structures established by validated density functionals

F Li, P Jin, D Jiang, L Wang, SB Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
B80 and B101–103 clusters: Remarkable stability of the core-shell structures established by
validated density functionalsa) | The Journal of Chemical Physics | AIP Publishing Skip to Main …

Stabilization of fullerene-like boron cages by transition metal encapsulation

J Lv, Y Wang, L Zhang, H Lin, J Zhao, Y Ma - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The stabilization of fullerene-like boron (B) cages in the free-standing form has been long
sought after and a challenging problem. Studies that have been carried out for more than a …

Structure of boron clusters revisited, Bn with n= 14–20

TB Tai, NM Tam, MT Nguyen - Chemical Physics Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
We reinvestigate the structures of neutral boron clusters Bn, with n= 14–20. G3B3
calculations confirm that a transition between 2D and 3D shape occurs at B20, which has a …

Planar B 41− and B 42− clusters with double-hexagonal vacancies

H Bai, TT Chen, Q Chen, XY Zhao, YY Zhang, WJ Chen… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the discovery of the B40 borospherene, research interests have been directed to the
structural evolution of even larger boron clusters. An interesting question concerns if the …

Fullerene-like boron clusters stabilized by an endohedrally doped iron atom: B n Fe with n= 14, 16, 18 and 20

N MinháTam, H TanáPham, L VanáDuong… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Stabilized fullerene and tubular forms can be produced in boron clusters Bn in small sizes
from n∼ 14 to 20 upon doping by transition metal atoms. B14Fe and B16Fe are stable tubes …

B 28: the smallest all-boron cage from an ab initio global search

J Zhao, X Huang, R Shi, H Liu, Y Su, RB King - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Our ab initio global searches reveal the lowest-energy cage for B28, which is built from two
B12 units and prevails over the competing structural isomers such as planar, bowl, and tube …