comprising light elements of carbon and boron only. Here we report the atomic structure of the amorphous shear bands in boron carbide characterized by state-of-the-art aberration-corrected ...

A one-atom-thick layer of a graphene and boron nitride hybrid is visible to the ... potential applications in next-generation electronics. Atomic sheets containing hybridized bonds involving elements ...

That is, until researchers got their hands on an alternate crystal structure of boron ... the same chemical composition, called allotropes, are common in nature. The different atomic bond ...

A recent article in Scientific Reports detailed the characterization of disordered structures in graphene and monolayer hexagonal boron nitride ... selection and atomic structure identification ...

Glassmakers commonly use additives such as boron oxide to tweak these properties by changing the atomic structure of glass ... including chemical durability, flow resistance, optical transparency ...

The juxtaposition of the two findings highlights both the promise and the challenge of working with boron at the atomic scale: its versatility allows for surprising structures but also makes it ...

Boron is a multipurpose element. It's a crucial nutrient for ... researchers discovered the first boron "buckyball," a cagelike structure similar to the soccer-ball-shaped carbon buckyballs ...

They identified that certain ordered atomic motifs ... observing light elements with transmission electron microscopy. We developed a workflow and code for transmission electron microscopy that ...