Compounds containing boron-carbon bonds are used to make certain drugs and other products, and by enlisting bacteria to make them for us, the Caltech team says the process can be done at lower ...

Before now, such boron-carbon bonds ... organisms are taught to make chemical compounds needed for pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, and other industrial products. Last year, Arnold's ...

Hexagonal boron nitride is widely used in a variety of products, such as coatings ... Cubic boron nitride is also a very interesting material, with properties that make it very promising for use in ...

Borotron HD050 is a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) with 5% elemental boron to provide extra shielding against neutron radiation. The combination of boron within a matrix of HDPE works well in ...

Rice University scientists have used their flash Joule heating process to make boron nitride, a compound valued for its thermal and chemical stability. Particles of mechanically sheared flash boron ...