Due to their transparency and chemical inertness, boron-doped diamonds can be used in applications where other materials fail. These diamonds, despite doping, maintain transparency with a blue ...

Heterogeneous catalysts speed up chemical reactions by being in a different ... In this study, the research team chemically modified polysilazane with boron (B) -- a naturally abundant and less ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another stage of reverse osmosis removes the newly charged boron, and the base is neutralized afterward by adding acid. Those extra treatment steps can be costly. "Our device reduces the chemical ...

Heterogeneous catalysts speed up chemical reactions by being in a different ... composed of silicon (Si), boron (B), and nitrogen (N), was designed for small molecule activation and catalysis.