Because of their interesting structures and bonding and potentials as motifs for new
nanomaterials, size-selected boron clusters have received tremendous interest in recent …

Conspectus Boron is an interesting element with unusual polymorphism. While three-
dimensional (3D) structural motifs are prevalent in bulk boron, atomic boron clusters are …

Boron is carbon's neighbour in the periodic table and has similar valence orbitals. However,
boron cannot form graphene-like structures with a honeycomb hexagonal framework …

Boron, a nearest-neighbor of carbon, is possibly the second element that can possess free-
standing flat monolayer structures, evidenced by recent successful synthesis of single …

Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) in combination with computational chemistry has been
used systematically over the past decade to elucidate the structures and chemical bonding …

The electron deficiency and strong bonding capacity of boron have led to a vast variety of
molecular structures in chemistry and materials science. Here we report the observation of …

We have investigated the structural and electronic properties of the B 17− and B 18− clusters
using photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) and ab initio calculations. The adiabatic electron …

The structure and chemical bonding of B16− were studied using ab initio calculations and
photoelectron spectroscopy. Its global minimum is found to be a quasi-planar and elongated …

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 …

Different from the isotropic Dirac cones existing in other two-dimensional (2D) materials,
anisotropic Dirac cones have the merit of anisotropic carrier mobility for applications in …