Not so long ago, graphene was the great new wonder material. A super-strong, atom-thick sheet of carbon “chicken wire,” it can form tubes, balls, and other curious shapes. And because it ...

Engineers have created a double layer of atomically flat borophene, a feat that defies the natural tendency of boron to form non-planar clusters beyond the single-atomic-layer limit.

However, unlike graphene, which can be easily made by peeling sheets from graphite, borophene sheets must be grown directly on a metal substrate – making the material much more difficult to fabricate.

Scientists may have found a material "more remarkable" than graphene that presents a wealth of medical potential. Borophene is thinner, more conductive, lighter and stronger than graphene.

Scientists have stumbled on a new way to make borophene that lets them make large sheets of the 2D material and protect it from degradation (Sci. Adv. 2021, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk1490).While ...

Borophene on silver grows freely into an atomic 'skin' Date: September 30, 2019 Source: Rice University Summary: Borophene has a nearly perfect partner in a form of silver that could help the ...

Defects are often observed when making borophene, the single-atom form of boron, but unlike in other two-dimensional materials, these mismatched lattices can assemble into ordered structures that ...

Hydrogenated borophene (B 8 H 4) was recently synthesized for the first time successfully, and this development opened up the possibility for 2D boron-based semiconductors. Uncovering the Secrets of ...

Unfortunately, borophene looks to be more difficult to produce than graphene. "The synthesis of borophene is quite challenging as it usually requires highly sophisticated fabrication facilities and ...

HOUSTON - (Sept. 27, 2019) - Borophene has a nearly perfect partner in a form of silver that could help the trendy two-dimensional material grow to unheard-of lengths. A well-ordered lattice of ...

The lattice heat conductivity of borophene also increases at first as the temperature rises, but at 150 K and above it starts to fall, in common with other crystalline materials. Thus at room ...