Structural transformations in boron clusters induced by metal doping

J Barroso, S Pan, G Merino - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last decades, experimental techniques in conjunction with theoretical analyses have
revealed the surprising structural diversity of boron clusters. Although the 2D to 3D transition …

Synthesis of bilayer borophene

C Chen, H Lv, P Zhang, Z Zhuo, Y Wang, C Ma, W Li… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
As the nearest-neighbour element to carbon, boron is theoretically predicted to have a
planar two-dimensional form, named borophene, with novel properties, such as Dirac …

Probing the nature of the transition-metal-boron bonds and novel aromaticity in small metal-doped boron clusters using photoelectron spectroscopy

TT Chen, LF Cheung, LS Wang - Annual Review of Physical …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Photoelectron spectroscopy combined with quantum chemistry has been a powerful
approach to elucidate the structures and bonding of size-selected boron clusters (B n−) …

First-Principles Particle-Swarm Structure Calculations on Metal Substrate Modulated Monolayer to Bilayer Borophene Crystalline Structures toward Nanoelectronics

Y Wang, H Lv, X Wu, J Yang - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
The possible structures of borophene have attracted great research interests during the past
years due to the multicenter bonding characteristics derived from the electron deficiency of …

Prediction of freestanding semiconducting bilayer borophenes

YY Ma, XY Zhao, W Zan, Y Mu, Z Zhang, SD Li - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Supported bilayer α-borophene (BL-α borophene) on Ag (111) substrate has been
synthesized in recent experiments. Based on the experimentally observed quasi-planar C 6 …

A bottom-up approach from medium-sized bilayer boron nanoclusters to bilayer borophene nanomaterials

QQ Yan, T Zhang, YY Ma, Q Chen, YW Mu, SD Li - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by the experimentally observed bilayer B48−/0 and theoretically predicted bilayer
B50–B72 and based on extensive density functional theory calculations, we report herein a …

Structural evolution and relative stability of vanadium-doped boron clusters

Z Xiang, Z Luo, J Bi, S Jin, Z Zhang… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Cluster is the intermediate of individual atom and larger agglomeration. The structural
evolutions of clusters are critically important to explore the physical properties of bulk solids …

Geometric and electronic structures of medium-sized boron clusters doped with plutonium

J Zuo, L Zhang, B Chen, K He, W Dai… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Doping metal heteroatoms is an effective strategy to regulate the geometric and electronic
structure of boron based nanoclusters. However, the exploration of the ground state …

B 96: a complete core–shell structure with high symmetry

L Sai, X Wu, F Li - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A complete core–shell and highly symmetric B96 was designed. The core–shell B96 of Th
symmetry is energetically favorable compared to the bilayer motif and the core–shell …

Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Size-Selected Bismuth–Boron Clusters: BiBn (n = 6–8)

WJ Chen, M Kulichenko, HW Choi… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Because of its low toxicity, bismuth is considered to be a “green metal” and has received
increasing attention in chemistry and materials science. To understand the chemical …