Probing the structures and bonding of size-selected boron and doped-boron clusters

T Jian, X Chen, SD Li, AI Boldyrev, J Li… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Because of their interesting structures and bonding and potentials as motifs for new
nanomaterials, size-selected boron clusters have received tremendous interest in recent …

From planar boron clusters to borophenes and metalloborophenes

WL Li, X Chen, T Jian, TT Chen, J Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Elemental boron and its compounds exhibit unusual structures and chemical bonding owing
to the electron deficiency of boron. Joint photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical studies …

Probing the nature of the transition-metal-boron bonds and novel aromaticity in small metal-doped boron clusters using photoelectron spectroscopy

TT Chen, LF Cheung, LS Wang - Annual Review of Physical …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Photoelectron spectroscopy combined with quantum chemistry has been a powerful
approach to elucidate the structures and bonding of size-selected boron clusters (B n−) …

Global optimization of chemical cluster structures: Methods, applications, and challenges

J Zhang, VA Glezakou - International Journal of Quantum …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical clusters are relevant to many applications in catalysis, separations, materials, and
energy sciences. Experimentally, the structure of clusters is difficult to determine, but it is …

TGMin: A global-minimum structure search program based on a constrained basin-hop** algorithm

Y Zhao, X Chen, J Li - Nano Research, 2017 - Springer
In this article, we introduce Tsinghua Global Minimum (TGMin) as a new program for the
global minimum searching of geometric structures of gas-phase or surface-supported atomic …

Be4B12+: A Covalently Bonded Archimedean Beryllo‐Borospherene

X Dong, Y Liu, X Liu, S Pan, Z Cui… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A new class of beryllium‐boron clusters, beryllo‐borospherene, is described herein
theoretically. When beryllium is gradually added to the B12 motif, it undergoes drastic …

Suppressed superconductivity in substrate-supported β12 borophene by tensile strain and electron do**

C Cheng, JT Sun, H Liu, HX Fu, J Zhang, XR Chen… - 2D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Planar borophene, the truly 2D monolayer boron, has been independently successfully
grown on Ag (1 1 1) by two groups (2016 Nat. Chem. 8 563 and 2015 Science 350 1513) …

Recent progresses of global minimum searches of nanoclusters with a constrained Basin-Hop** algorithm in the TGMin program

X Chen, YF Zhao, LS Wang, J Li - Computational and Theoretical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Finding the global minima of nanoclusters is of great importance in cluster science and
nanoscience. We have developed an efficient global minimum search program, named …

A DFT study on the geometrical structures, electronic, and spectroscopic properties of inverse sandwich monocyclic boron nanoclusters ConBm (n = 1.2; m …

SUD Shamim, T Hussain, MR Hossian… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Recent photoelectron spectroscopy and computational studies have shown that boron ring–
centered transition metal–doped inverse sandwich complexes prefer planar or quasi-planar …

Structural evolution and relative stability of vanadium-doped boron clusters

Z **ang, Z Luo, J Bi, S **, Z Zhang… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Cluster is the intermediate of individual atom and larger agglomeration. The structural
evolutions of clusters are critically important to explore the physical properties of bulk solids …