Here we report the atomic structure of the amorphous shear bands in boron carbide characterized by state-of-the-art aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy. Distorted icosahedra ...

More than ten years ago, researchers at Rice University led by materials scientist Boris Yakobson predicted that boron atoms ...

Scientists have discovered a brand-new material with a unique atomic structure—something they weren’t even looking for. While ...

and these can be emitted by defects in the atomically thin insulator hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Missing nitrogen atoms have been suggested to be the atomic structure responsible for this ...

In nanotechnology, the position of a single atom can make all the difference ... Defining the exact atomic structure of everyday solids, as opposed to those of nanostructured ones, is relatively ...

Rutgers University–New Brunswick researchers have discovered a new class of materials—called intercrystals—with unique ...

As published Monday (Aug. 15) in Nature Materials, the research team used electron spin qubits as atomic ... boron nitride, which can exist in a single layer, was built in 2019 by removing a boron ...

Boron is a multipurpose element ... to determine how it was originally bonded in the atom cluster, allowing the researchers to map out the structure, which they call a borospherene.