"Borophene is a very interesting material, as it resembles carbon very closely including its atomic weight and electron structure but with more remarkable properties. Researchers are only starting ...

Crystal of the stacked borophene oxide. (A) Photograph, (B) SEM image, and (C) crystal structure. (D) Transmission Electron Microscope and (E) Atomic Force Microscope images of the exfoliated atomic ...

The key, of course, is that it is a single layer of atoms. Now scientists have done the same trick with boron to form borophene, and it looks to be even more exciting than graphene. You can read a ...