Computer artwork of a boron buckyball,first discovered in 2014 by Lai-Sheng Wang at Brown University in Rhode Island,USA. It consists of a cluster of 40 boron atoms forming a molecular cage. Unlike carbon buckyballs,in which the faces are made of hexagons and pentagons,the boron buckyball is made of triangles,hexagons and heptagons. As a result,it is less spherical but still an enclosed structure. His novel form of boron may lead to new nanomaterial in the future | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Pasieka, Alfred |
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