An atom-thick film of boron could be the first pure two-dimensional material able to emit visible and near-infrared light by activating its plasmons, according to Rice University scientists. That ...

The thinnest flake, just one atom thick, has provided scientists at Yale and the Brookhaven National Laboratory with new insight into a promising material for the next generation of high-speed ...

Engineers have created a double layer of atomically flat borophene, a feat that defies the natural tendency of boron to form non-planar clusters beyond the single-atomic-layer limit. For the first ...

Borophene is composed of a single-atom layer of boron and its special properties mean that it could revolutionize the performance of sensors, batteries, and catalytic chemistry. Interest in borophene ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Borophene is the name for atomically thin, two-dimensional (2D) sheets of boron. Whereas boron is a nonmetallic semiconductor in its bulk form, it becomes a metallic conductor in ...

2D structures are becoming immensely interesting in materials science because of the enormous range of potential applications. Among these is graphene, a 2-D allotrope of carbon which is outstandingly ...

Not so long ago, graphene was the great new wonder material. A super-strong, atom-thick sheet of carbon “chicken wire,” it can form tubes, balls, and other curious shapes. And because it conducts ...

In a paper published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Applied Nano Materials in October 2021, engineers revealed the superconducting properties of a specially synthesized type of borophene.

Borophene, a one atom thick sheet of boron, is being introduced by scientists as the next big thing after graphene, another two-dimensional material that made headlines back in 2004. If you aren’t ...

An atom-thick film of boron could be the first pure two-dimensional material able to emit visible and near-infrared light by activating its plasmons. An atom-thick film of boron could be the first ...