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 ...
Heterogeneous catalysts speed up chemical reactions by being in a different state than the reactants ... In this study, the research team chemically modified polysilazane with boron (B)—a naturally ...
Transition metals have long been used as catalysts to activate small molecules and turn them into valuable products. However, as these metals can be expensive and less abundant, scientists are ...
Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.
A solar cell is made of two types of semiconductors, called p-type and n-type silicon. The p-type silicon is produced by adding atoms—such as boron or gallium—that have one less electron in their ...
NASA's Curiosity rover recently detected boron in Gale Crater on Mars. This has many implications with regards to ancient alien life that might have lived there. Follow TI: On Facebook More from ...
Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically conductive as a metal, by introducing impurities such as the element boron. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of ...