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 ...

The cancer-killing effects of BNCT arises from the destructive alpha and lithium particles that are produced when neutrons strike an atom of boron. So, by ensuring the boron is already inside ...

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 ...