In their new study, they demonstrate the synthesis of a high-quality boride ceramic powder with a unique Archimedean ...

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 ...

A research team led by Prof. HU Xiaoye from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has ...

Boron neutron capture therapy is being used in Japan to target and treat head and neck tumours. Many other countries are now building facilities. In 2020, Japan became the first country to approve ...

Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can form chemical triple bonds with each other due to their similar electronic properties. Examples of this are the gas carbon monoxide ...

These boron film samples were created using a plasma ... that operate using magnetic fields to hold plasma in a doughnut shape. Given that the research suggests that even trace amounts of carbon ...