Ken Wade recalls his own undistinguished part in the space race, and notes how carboranes revitalized boron hydride chemistry and modified our ideas of chemical bonding. In the 1950s, during the ...

Diamonds, composed of transparent crystals of the element carbon, can be synthesized with small amounts of boron, adjacent to carbon on the periodic table. Boron contains one less electron than ...

When Algordanza processes ashes, Martoia says, "it's nearly impossible to separate out the boron from the carbon". This is because the two elements share similar weights and properties.

But very few of them have been discovered. Theoreticians had predicted that isotopically pure cubic boron nitride (c-BN), should have extremely high thermal conductivity - second only to crystals made ...

Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water. A study ...

Professor Yap is interested in the fundamentals of synthesis, characterization, and applications of quantum materials and nanomaterials, including B-C-N nanostructures (carbon, boron nitride, boron ...

This "frustration" leaves them in a highly reactive state, allowing them to activate stable molecules like hydrogen, carbon dioxide ... modified polysilazane with boron (B)—a naturally abundant ...

The multilayer hexagonal boron nitride investigated in this work was grown through a metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy using ammonia and a carbon precursor, which resulted in spin-active and ...

This "frustration" leaves them in a highly reactive state, allowing them to activate stable molecules like hydrogen, carbon dioxide ... modified polysilazane with boron (B) -- a naturally abundant ...

Professor Macpherson’s work focuses on the use of carbon-based materials in electrochemical systems for a variety of applications, including environmental monitoring and electrochemical energy storage ...