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How to grow a long-sought wonder material: on a silver platter

Two sheets of boron, each only one atom thick, are coaxed to take shape on crystals of silver.
Black and white micrograph of bilayer borophene showing a honeycomb structure.

Double-layered borophene (pictured) is expected to have desirable magnetic or electronic traits. Credit: X. Liu et al./Nature Mater.

Engineers have tamed the unruly element boron into a sheet precisely two atoms thick — achieving the first synthesis of a double layer of the wonder material borophene.

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Nature 597, 155 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02380-2

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