A team of Scientists almost a decade ago predicted that boron atoms would cling too tightly to copper to form borophene, a flexible, metallic two-dimensional material with potential across electronics, energy, and catalysis.
Predicted by researchers at Rice University led by materials scientist Boris Yakobson, new research shows the prediction holds up, but in an unexpected way.
“Borophene is still a material at the brink of existence, and that makes any new fact about it important by pushing the envelope of our knowledge in materials, physics and electronics,” said Yakobson, Rice’s Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Engineering and professor of materials science and nanoengineering and chemistry.
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