Ya-Fan Zhao

TL;DR: The observation of an all-boron fullerene-like cage cluster at B40(-) with an extremely low electron-binding energy is reported, by photoelectron spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations show that this arises from a cage structure with a large energy gap, but that a quasi-planar isomer of B40 (-) with two adjacent hexagonal holes is slightly more stable than the fullerenes structure.

TL;DR: It is shown experimentally and theoretically that B36 is a highly stable quasiplanar boron cluster with a central hexagonal hole, providing the first experimental evidence that single-atom layerboron sheets with hexagonal vacancies are potentially viable.

TL;DR: Global minimum searches find that both B35(-) and B35 possess planar hexagonal structures, similar to that of B36, except a missing interior B atom that creates a double-hexagonal vacancy.

TL;DR: The observation of axially chiral borospherene in the B(39)(-) nanocluster is reported on the bases of photoelectron spectroscopy, global minimum searches, and electronic structure calculations, and indicates the structural diversity of boron-based nanomaterials.

TL;DR: Experimental and computational evidence of a seashell-like borospherene cage for B28(-) and B28 is reported and the seashell structure is found to be the global minimum for neutral B28 and the B 28(-) cage represents the smallest borospherenes observed to date.