Abstract
The boron (Z = 5) element is unique. Boron-based (nano-)materials are equally unique. Accordingly, the present special issue is dedicated to crystalline boron-based (nano-)materials and gathers a series of nine review and research articles dealing with different boron-based compounds. Boranes, borohydrides, polyhedral boranes and carboranes, boronate anions/ligands, boron nitride (hexagonal structure), and elemental boron are considered. Importantly, large sections are dedicated to fundamentals, with a special focus on crystal structures. The application potentials are widely discussed on the basis of the materials’ physical and chemical properties. It stands out that crystalline boron-based (nano-)materials have many technological opportunities in fields such as energy storage, gas sorption (depollution), medicine, and optical and electronic devices. The present special issue is further evidence of the wealth of boron science, especially in terms of crystalline (nano-)materials.
Highlights
Boron (Z = 5) is one of the lightest elements of the periodic table, coming just before carbon (Z = 6)
Liquid-state chemical hydrogen storage investigated with thethe objective to decrease the4 –LiCl dehydrogenation temperature, and Zavorotynska et is alsoal.’s a possible application for alkali borohydrides, but is better than the lithium and potassium contribution concerns the solid solution LiBH4–LiCl [7].4Liquid-state chemical hydrogen storage counterparts in that case
It is of even more importance that N,O-type carborane ligand-based complexes show a variety of properties, such as those used in magnetic, chiroptical, nonlinear optical, catalytic, and biomedical applications
Summary
Lipscomb [(American chemist, 1919–2011)], crack the mystery of the three-center-bonded polyboranes” Crystallinity of these polyboranes and the development of powerful characterization tools like X-ray diffraction within the 20th century, among other factors, have allowed the recent great advances in boron science. It may may be be confused confused with with borax, borax, which which is is the the ore ore from from which which boron boron is is extracted Letususagain againcite cite “How many us know that a regular intake of boron can lessen the chance of prostate cancer?. All of them are briefly cited hereafter, as they illustrate the versatility of boron and the importance of crystalline boron-based (nano-)materials in several areas of application. Boron and the importance of crystalline boron-based (nano-)materials in several areas of application
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