Highly stable buckyball-like 80 boron atom molecules: a new class of nanomaterials with unique structural/ electronic properties

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131685

"hollow cage cousin to the Buckminsterfullerene 60-atom carbon molecule... cluster's electron binding energy exhibits highly distinct peaks signifying highly symmetric/ stable configuration... challenges standard density functional theory calculations, which had predicted that an 80-atom boron buckyball would be unstable... future: study of the molecule's chemical reactivity to determine if these boron buckyballs can eventually be synthesized in bulk for practical applications"