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 …

Locality in physical space is critical in understanding chemical reactivity in the analysis of
various phenomena and processes in chemistry, biology, and materials science, as …

Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) in combination with computational chemistry has been
used systematically over the past decade to elucidate the structures and chemical bonding …

The design of new materials is an important subject in order to attain new properties and
applications, and it is of particular interest when some peculiar topological properties such …

The idea of planar tetracoordinate carbon (ptC) was considered implausible for a hundred
years after 1874. Examples of ptC were then predicted computationally and realized …

Decomposing chemical interactions into bonds and other higher order interactions is a
common practice to analyse chemical structures, and gave birth to many chemical concepts …

We have investigated the structural and electronic properties of the B 17− and B 18− clusters
using photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) and ab initio calculations. The adiabatic electron …

Atomic clusters have intermediate properties between that of individual atoms and bulk
solids, which provide fertile ground for the discovery of new molecules and novel chemical …

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 …