The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

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 …

Conspectus Isolated boron clusters exhibit many intriguing properties, which have only
recently been unfolding with the hand-in-hand advancement of state-of-the-art experimental …

Polynator is a Python program capable of identifying coordination polyhedra, molecules and
other shapes in crystal structures and evaluating their distortions. Distortions are quantified …

Size-selected supported clusters of transition metals can be remarkable and highly tunable
catalysts. A particular example is Pt clusters deposited on alumina, which have been shown …

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 …

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 …