WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — By using photons and electron spin qubits to control nuclear spins in a two-dimensional material, researchers at Purdue University have opened a new frontier in quantum science ...

In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure (e.g., a crystal). Like other elementary particles ...

A beam of electrons can “kick” single atoms out of a two-dimensional sheet of hexagonal boron nitride. The vacancy is visible as a triangular dark spot at the top left. (Courtesy: Toma Susi / ...

Recently, two-dimensional (2D) boron sheets, namely borophenes, have drawn great interests of materials scientists because of their analogy to graphene. However, the understanding on how the material ...

(Nanowerk News) Seeking for low-dimensional boron allotropes has attracted considerable interest in the past decades and tremendous theoretical works predict the existence of monolayer boron. As boron ...

Graphene, a sheet of carbon one atom thick, may soon have a new nanomaterial partner. In the lab and on supercomputers, chemists have determined that a cluster of 36 boron atoms forms a flat disc with ...

Boron cluster chemistry occupies a unique niche in modern chemical science, bridging fundamental inorganic chemistry with practical materials applications. Central to this field is the study of ...