A research team led by Prof. Hu Xiaoye from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has synthesized high-quality boride ceramic powders with an Archimedean shape.

A research team led by Prof. HU Xiaoye from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has successfully synthesized high-quality boride ceramic powders with an ...

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Boride ceramics are special materials made from metals like zirconium or hafnium combined with boron. They are highly resistant to extreme heat, pressure, corrosion, and wear, making them ideal for ...

There are only 13 “Archimedean solids” – a family of symmetrical, 3D polyhedra attributed to the Greek mathematician. Now chemists have made a molecule-scale version of one of these special structures ...

As well as super-shrinking everyday gadgets such as motors, molecules have also been massaged into shapes that are more mathematical than practical. Michael Ward of New York University and colleagues ...