Ken Wade recalls his own undistinguished part in the space race, and notes how carboranes revitalized boron hydride chemistry and modified our ideas of chemical bonding. In the 1950s, during the ...

A breakthrough in decoding the growth process of Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN), a 2D material ... from the University of Surrey. Only one atom thick, hBN -- often nicknamed "white graphene ...

A method that can grow a useful insulating material into exceptionally high-quality films that are just one atom thick and are ... The material, called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), is used ...