Boron buckminsterfullerene
Hyun Wook Choi, Yang-Yang Zhang, Deniz Kahraman, Cong-Qiao Xu, Han-Wen Gao, Jun Li, Lai-Sheng Wang · 2026
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Description
Hyun Wook Choi and colleagues announce in 2026 a boron version of the famous buckyball, the sixty-carbon soccer-ball molecule that launched nanoscience. Similar cages made of other elements had resisted discovery, because carbon's bonding is unusually suited to closed shells.
Firing electrons off clusters of eighty boron atoms produced a strikingly simple spectrum, the fingerprint of a highly symmetric structure with a healthy energy gap. Among candidate shapes, only the simulated buckyball matched the measurement. Its electronic structure and bonding closely echo the carbon original. Bulk synthesis becomes the next goal, and the authors foresee a new boron-fullerene chemistry growing from this eighty-atom cage.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hyun Wook Choi, Yang-Yang Zhang, Deniz Kahraman, Cong-Qiao Xu, Han-Wen Gao, Jun Li, Lai-Sheng Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |