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Physical and Chemical Properties of Boron Solids

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2D Boron: Boraphene, Borophene, Boronene

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Bulk boron is reviewed with description of physical and chemical properties. Varieties of the reported boron crystals, such as α-rhombohedral, β-rhombohedral, α-tetragonal, and β-tetragonal, and γ-orthorhombic, are described. A new class of the boron quasicrystal is also introduced. Optical, electrical, and magnetic properties of the well-known boron solid, especially β-rhombohedral boron, are described with the data.

This chapter is composed of the English translation with the additional information from Chap. 1, Sections 1 and 2, in the Japanese book, Fundamentals and Applications of Boron, Borides and Related Materials (CMC Publishing Co., LTD. 2008), written by the same authors.

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Uno, R., Kimura, K. (2021). Physical and Chemical Properties of Boron Solids. In: Matsuda, I., Wu, K. (eds) 2D Boron: Boraphene, Borophene, Boronene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49999-0_6

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