Yongjun Tian

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As of September 2026: Co-led the project

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.

Updated Sep 25