Boris Yakobson, a materials physicist at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering, and materials scientist Mark Hersamof Northwestern led a team that not only discovered how to see the nanoscale structures of borophene lattices but also built theoretical models that helped characterize the crystalline forms.
2D borophene gets a closer look
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