Researchers discover new boron-lanthanide
nanostructure

The discovery of carbon nanostructures like
two-dimensional graphene and soccer ball-shaped buckyballs helped
to launch a nanotechnology revolution. In recent years, researchers
from Brown University and elsewhere have shown that boron, carbon’s
neighbor on the periodic table, can make interesting nanostructures
too, including two-dimensional borophene and a buckyball-like
hollow cage structure called borospherene.