“When we did our theoretical work, I had doubts as to feasibility of obtaining two-dimensional boron because boron likes to form clusters, and ironing it out into two-dimensions I thought would be challenging,” Oganov said. “It turned out that growing on the substrate was key, because the boron and silver turn out not to react with each other.”
The experimental work was funded by the DOE’s Office of Science and was performed at Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and at the Northwestern University Materials Research Center.
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