Introduction of research entitled A particle on a hollow cylinder: the triple ring tubular cluster B27+
This study was carried out by a group of researchers from the Institute for Computational Science and Technology (ICST) including Mr. Long Van Duong, Mr. Hung Tan Pham, and Mr. Nguyen Minh Tam under the guidance of Professor Minh Tho Nguyen. It was first published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics on July 29, 2014 with the impact factor (IF) of 4.123.
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Boron is an interesting electron deficient element in the Periodic Table. The lack of five electrons in its 2p valence shell allows boron to receive electrons forming high coordination states. In addition, the characteristically short covalent radius of boron frequently leads to formation of strong and non-classical chemical bonds. Boron elements are thus able to build up compounds with unlimited sizes by covalently binding to themselves. A plethora of boron clusters featuring two-dimensional (2D, planar and quasi-planar) and three-dimensional (3D, tube, convex, cage, sphere, fullerene...) shapes have been predicted on the basis of the ‘Aufbau principle’,1 and some of them have experimentally been identified.2,3 This suggests an overlap of several different growth patterns of boron clusters. Extensive efforts have therefore been devoted to the search for new forms of boron allotropes, nanocages,4,5 and nanotubes6 and as a matter of fact, most boron clusters appear to exhibit polymorphism and multicenter bonding.
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Author: Long Van Duong
Editor and translator: Nguyen Thanh Ngoc (Jenny)
