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Inside Back Cover: Two‐Dimensional Boron Monolayers Mediated by Metal Substrates (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44/2015)
Author(s) -
Zhang Zhuhua,
Yang Yang,
Gao Guoying,
Yakobson Boris I.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201508993
Subject(s) - boron , materials science , monolayer , graphene , metal , hexagonal boron nitride , boron nitride , honeycomb , substrate (aquarium) , lattice (music) , crystallography , hexagonal crystal system , nanotechnology , chemistry , metallurgy , composite material , organic chemistry , physics , oceanography , geology , acoustics
2D boron has been proposed to follow a honeycomb grid when deposited on a metal surface. However, in their Communication on page 13022 ff., B. I. Yakobson et al. show theoretically that pure boron is the first 2D material that varies its structure depending on the metal substrate: on Cu, Au, or Ag different boron sheets should be formed making it different from 2D graphene or hexagonal boron nitride which have an exclusively honeycomb lattice when deposited on different metal substrates.