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Chemistry World
February 6, 2012
David Bradley |
10 out of 10 for boron's coordinated effort A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel.   |
Chemistry World
October 5, 2006
Mark Peplow |
Boron Shows Its Negative Side A molecule that hosts a negatively-charged boron atom could prove to be an exciting addition to the chemist's toolbox, according to researchers who have isolated the anion as its lithium salt. |
Chemistry World
December 18, 2012
Caryl Richards |
Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth. |
Chemistry World
May 30, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization. |
Chemistry World
November 24, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Boron and beryllium finally shake hands Beryllium bis(diazaborolyl) features the first non-cluster bond between boron and beryllium. |
Chemistry World
January 20, 2010
James Urquhart |
Disilicate synthesis success A compound containing a stable silicon-silicon bond between two negatively charged pentacoordinated silicon atoms - silicates - has been synthesized and isolated for the first time by Japanese researchers. |
Chemistry World
January 28, 2009
Manisha Lalloo |
Ultra-pure boron structure discovered Scientists have characterised a new form of elemental boron - a notoriously hard element to synthesise in a pure form - and found that ionic bonding helps hold the structure together. |
Chemistry World
May 24, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Chad Mirkin named Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year In particular, the award recognises Mirkin's development and successful commercialization of spherical nucleic acids. He has more than 900 patents to his name and has founded four spin-out companies. |
Chemistry World
January 30, 2008
Jonathan Edwards |
DNA Helps Nanoparticles Crystallize Two papers in Nature have each shown a simple way to build designer crystals from nanoparticles, using DNA as 'glue'. Both methods show promise as a cheap way of mass-producing complex materials like photonic crystals. |
Chemistry World
August 18, 2014
Laura Fisher |
Radiolabels help evaluate emerging cancer treatment Researchers in Spain have come up with a way to track the biodistribution of a boron cluster complex used to prepare boron-carrier drugs for a prospective cancer treatment called boron neutron capture therapy. |
Chemistry World
July 14, 2014
Tim Wogan |
First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China. |
Chemistry World
June 19, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Eureka moment in supramolecular chemistry Scientists in the US have made a large, self-assembling molecular cage that resembles an intricate shape first drawn by the Greek mathematician Archimedes. |
Chemistry World
September 27, 2006
Victoria Gill |
Printing Nano Portraits Making 55,000 nanoscale images of Thomas Jefferson might sound like an eccentric art project, but this is the first demonstration of a new technique that harnesses the power of thousands of nanoscale pens working in synchrony. |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2012
David Bradley |
Tripling up on boron bonds Carbon and nitrogen are well known for their triple bonds, but making stable compounds with a triple bond between two boron atoms hadn't been achieved despite the computational possibilities. Until now. |
Chemistry World
January 19, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Happy Families for Aluminium Chemists have discovered that aluminium - a notoriously anti-social element compared with its sister boron - may in fact form an unexpected family of hydride clusters. |
Chemistry World
October 1, 2010
Hayley Birch |
On-off catalyst mimics enzyme function US and Japanese researchers have created an enzyme-like catalyst whose activity can be switched on or off using small molecules. |
National Defense
December 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Advancing Hidden Nuclear Material Detection On any given day, ships and trucks deliver cargo containers filled with tons of imported goods. Homeland security officials have long warned that terrorists may use them to smuggle nuclear materials into the United States. |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Young-Ish Giants Party On Chemist Fraser Stoddart celebrated his 65th birthday in scholarly style last week, with a group of chemistry's rising stars that raised a glass - and a slide or two - in his honor. |
Chemistry World
July 7, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Buckyball boron Systematic structure-searching calculations performed by scientists in China have put forward an all-boron analogue of fullerene: B 38. |
Chemistry World
July 27, 2015
Anisha Ratan |
Boroles get a stability boost Scientists from Germany have reported a breakthrough in borole stability, using bulky fluoromesityl groups, which could help these anti-aromatic molecules realize their potential in optoelectronic devices. |
Chemistry World
January 24, 2010
Andy Extance |
Boron cluster forms unique ring system Clusters of nineteen boron atoms gather together in a ring structure unlike any other seen, with two planar -bonded aromatic systems nestled inside one another. |
Scientific American
August 2006
Mihail C. Roco |
Nanotechnology's Future Over the next two decades, this new field for controlling the properties of matter will rise to prominence through four evolutionary stages. |
