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Complete title is: "Introducing boron buckyballs: Theory predicts B80 cages can’t be made. Experimentalists just proved otherwise"
by crescit_eundo 4mo ago
Complete title is:
"Introducing boron buckyballs: Theory predicts B80 cages can’t be made. Experimentalists just proved otherwise"
- IAmGraydon 4mo agoThat, also, would be incorrect. The original major theory paper did the opposite: Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki, Arta Sadrzadeh, and Boris Yakobson predicted a stable B₈₀ fullerene cage in 2007, calling it an unusually stable boron cage and saying it was likely to self-assemble under proper conditions. What later theory challenged was not whether a B₈₀ cage could exist at all, but whether the soccer-ball B₈₀ buckyball was the lowest-energy structure. Then, of course, accuracy was sacrificed in the name of clicks.
- j16sdiz 4mo agoYes but it contradicts the article