The synthesis of 2D materials with no analogous bulk layered allotropes promises a
substantial breadth of physical and chemical properties through the diverse structural …

Neighboring carbon and sandwiched between non‐metals and metals in the periodic table
of the elements, boron is one of the most chemically and physically versatile elements, and …

Since two-dimensional boron sheet (borophene) synthesized on Ag substrates in 2015,
research on borophene has grown fast in the fields of condensed matter physics, chemistry …

Borophene, a 2D allotrope of boron and the lightest elemental Dirac material, is the latest
very promising 2D material owing to its unique structural and electronic characteristics of the …

The prevalent catalysts for natural and artificial N2 fixation are transition-metal (TM) atoms.
By using density functional theory computations, several TM atoms embedded on boron …

Boron is carbon's neighbour in the periodic table and has similar valence orbitals. However,
boron cannot form graphene-like structures with a honeycomb hexagonal framework …

Graphene, an atomic monolayer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice realized in 2004,
has rapidly risen as the hottest star in materials science due to its exceptional properties …

The structures of boron clusters, such as flat clusters and fullerenes, resemble those of
carbon. Various two‐dimensional (2D) borophenes have been proposed since the …

There is enormous interest in the use of graphene-based materials for energy storage. This
article discusses the progress that has been accomplished in the development of chemical …

The structural stability and diversity of elemental boron layers are evaluated by treating them
as pseudoalloy B1–x⬡ x, where⬡ is a vacancy in the close-packed triangular B lattice. This …