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		<title>Flat boron by the numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rice University researchers calculate what it would take to make new two-dimensional material It would be a terrible thing if laboratories striving to grow graphene from carbon atoms kept winding up with big pesky diamonds. “That would be trouble, cleaning &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/258">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Materials is Owl about Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[High-impact journal publishes centennial edition with broad overview of materials science at Rice Materials scientists who received Volume 24, Issue 36 of the respected journal Advanced Materials recently may have noticed it contained Rice University research and nothing else. That is no mistake. The &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/245">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Every atom counts in graphene formation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like tiny ships finding port in a storm, carbon atoms dock with the greater island of graphene in a predictable manner. But until recent research by scientists at Rice University, nobody had the tools to make that kind of prediction. Electric current &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/234">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flat boron may take many forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is nothing really something? When it leads to a revelation about boron, an element with worlds of unexplored potential. Theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his team at Rice University have taken an unusual approach to analyzing the possible configurations &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/207">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rice professor’s nanotube theory confirmed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air Force Research Laboratory experiment shows chirality of tube controls speed of growth The Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, has experimentally confirmed a theory by Rice University Professor Boris Yakobson that foretold a pair of interesting properties about nanotube growth: &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/201">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Graphene rips follow rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A press release from Rice University Office of Public Affairs / News &#38; Media Relations covers recent work by our group published in Nano Letters: Rice University simulations show carbon sheets tear along energetically favorable lines HOUSTON &#8212; (Jan. 5, 2012) &#8212; &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/155">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Space elevator enthusiasts face unanswered questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vasilii Artyukhov, a postdoctoral research associate in Boris Yakobson&#8217;s group, is mentioned in an article about a space elevator conference in Seattle. more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Recent book from a group member</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evgeni Penev from Yakobson&#8217;s group has co-authored a book on the theory of high-temperature superconductivity. The book is published by World Scientific  and includes 34 figures, more than 700 equations, and 543 references. The authors analyze those basic properties for &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/145">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IndustryWeek: &#8220;Nanotechnology: Beyond the Hype&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IndustryWeek has selected an image related to our very recent work on vacancy clusters in graphane as quantum dots as a front cover for its November 2010 issue. In a recent article in ACS Nano, we discuss how complementary electronic &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/100">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rice physicists dig theoretical wells to mine quantum dots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graphane is the material of choice for physicists on the cutting edge of materials science, and Rice University researchers are right there with the pack – and perhaps a little ahead. Researchers mentored by Boris Yakobson, a Rice professor of &#8230; <a href="http://biygroup.blogs.rice.edu/archives/181">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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