{"id":156906,"date":"2023-02-03T03:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T09:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-semiconducting-borophene-paves-the-way-for-the-lightest-high-performance-transistor"},"modified":"2023-02-03T03:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T09:31:18","slug":"new-semiconducting-borophene-paves-the-way-for-the-lightest-high-performance-transistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-semiconducting-borophene-paves-the-way-for-the-lightest-high-performance-transistor","title":{"rendered":"New semiconducting borophene paves the way for the lightest high-performance transistor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-semiconducting-borophene-paves-the-way-for-the-lightest-high-performance-transistor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the year 1,808, French chemists Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thenard, and independently, English chemist Humphry Davy, discovered the fifth element of the periodic table\u2014boron. In crystalline form, boron primarily possesses three polymorphs, i.e., three distinct unit cell configurations: \u03b1-rhombohedral, \u03b2-rhombohedral, and \u03b2-tetragonal, among 16 possible bulk allotropes.<\/p>\n<p>The unique properties of this element have resulted in its use in numerous applications, including chemistry, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a>, life sciences, energy research and electronics. Moreover, based on studies conducted over the past decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/boron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">boron<\/a> has significant potential for use in pharmaceutical drug design as it plays an essential role in bone growth and maintenance, wound healing, prevention of vitamin-D deficiency and other processes.<\/p>\n<p>In the periodic table of elements, boron lies to the left of carbon, which causes boron to have similar valence orbitals but a shorter covalent radius. In contrast to carbon, which favors a 2D (two-dimensional) layered structure (aka graphite) in its bulk form, the bulk allotropes of boron are composed of B<sub>12<\/sub> icosahedral cages. As a result, it was challenging to experimentally realize a 2D atomic network of boron, also known as borophene, until 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the year 1,808, French chemists Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thenard, and independently, English chemist Humphry Davy, discovered the fifth element of the periodic table\u2014boron. In crystalline form, boron primarily possesses three polymorphs, i.e., three distinct unit cell configurations: \u03b1-rhombohedral, \u03b2-rhombohedral, and \u03b2-tetragonal, among 16 possible bulk allotropes. The unique properties of this element have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}