Zhenguo Huang receives funding from Australian Research Council and U.S. Borax. Each time you watch sport on a flatscreen television, or send a message by touching your smartphone screen, give thanks ...

An interesting feature of elemental boron and boron compounds is the occurrence of highly symmetric icosahedral clusters. The rich chemistry of boron is also dominated by three-dimensional cage ...

One hundred fifty years after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his system for neatly arranging the elements, the periodic table it gave birth to hangs in every chemistry classroom in the ...

Eric Scerri, a UCLA chemistry lecturer, has written at least six books discussing the orientation of the periodic table. His office is cluttered with posters and three-dimensional models of different ...

Boron is a multipurpose element. It's a crucial nutrient for plants, an important component in the nuclear industry and the main ingredient of a bizarre fluid called oobleck. Perched next to carbon on ...

Boron nitride (BN is a synthetic material, which although discovered in the early 19 th century was not developed as a commercial material until the latter half of the 20 th century. Boron and ...