In the last decades, experimental techniques in conjunction with theoretical analyses have
revealed the surprising structural diversity of boron clusters. Although the 2D to 3D transition …

Because of their interesting structures and bonding and potentials as motifs for new
nanomaterials, size-selected boron clusters have received tremendous interest in recent …

Elemental boron and its compounds exhibit unusual structures and chemical bonding owing
to the electron deficiency of boron. Joint photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical studies …

Modular bonding picture is a central part of chemical understanding as exemplified by the
wide usage of Lewis structure as a chemical language to describe molecular electronic …

Photoelectron spectroscopy combined with quantum chemistry has been a powerful
approach to elucidate the structures and bonding of size-selected boron clusters (B n−) …

Being intermediate between small compounds and bulk materials, nanoparticles possess
unique properties different from those of atoms, molecules, and bulk matter. In the past two …

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 …

After reports of unusually low oxidation states of lanthanide elements in Ln–B clusters and
their inverse sandwich geometrical topologies, the interest shifted from boride clusters …

Conspectus As one of the most important and versatile elements, carbon renders itself as
one of the most fundamental and cutting-edge topics in chemistry, physics, and materials …