The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

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 …

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

Chemical clusters are relevant to many applications in catalysis, separations, materials, and
energy sciences. Experimentally, the structure of clusters is difficult to determine, but it is …

Being intermediate between small compounds and bulk materials, nanoparticles possess
unique properties different from those of atoms, molecules, and bulk matter. In the past two …

After reports of unusually low oxidation states of lanthanide elements in Ln–B clusters and
their inverse sandwich geometrical topologies, the interest shifted from boride clusters …

Mg-Sc-H systems exhibit superior stability and high hydrogen storage capacity among the
large class of magnesium-based hydrogen storage materials, but the underlying …

To understand the effect of magnesium atom doping on boron clusters, here we report the
lowest-lying energy structures and electronic properties of neutral and monoanionic …

Binary boron-based compounds are expected to possess unique molecular architecture and
chemical bonding. Here, we explore how incorporation of a valence isoelectronic Al atom …

By using a joint experimental and first principle calculation, in 2017, Li's group reported a
tubular molecular rotor, TaB 20-, which possesses a Ta-centred eighteen-membered drum …