Nature Chemistry

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Published the oxoborane synthesis and isolation paper

Chemists have chased oxoboranes, molecules with a triple bond between boron and oxygen, since at least the early 1960s. They could only be glimpsed under extreme conditions or inferred from side products. Now a team at the University of Würzburg has made three of them as orange and yellow solids that can be isolated and studied; the work was published in Nature Chemistry on 27 October 2026.

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As of September 2026: Published the Imma-B60 paper

For more than half a century, every boron crystal chemists could make was diamond-hard, brittle, and nearly insulating. A team at Yanshan University in China now reports a phase that breaks all three patterns: it conducts electricity ten million times better than standard boron and deforms by roughly 23% instead of shattering.

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