Chemical

Boridene: a 2D borideA range of two-dimensional (2D) materials, including graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, have been synthesized and studied because of the unusual properties that occur when one dimension becomes very small. MXenes are…

In recent years, density functional theory (DFT) has become truly accurate, with uncertainties comparable to typical uncertainties in many experiments. This should be leading to a complete transformation of chemistry but so far it has not.…

Shear selectivityChemical reactions typically proceed by distributing energy statistically among all accessible molecular vibrations. Liu et al. report that external shear forces can sometimes pry open strained carbon rings without…