I noticed a few research articles and a news report about the
Boron buckyball in Science News today. This reminds me the article (The Wonderful World of Beaded Molecules, in chinese) I wrote two years ago about the potential molecules that may have the same structures as
the dual structures Chuang constructed. In that article, I suggested the possible candidates should be boron clusters. Well I was not exactly right, but I was not that far away either. In the reports I read today, the smallest boron cage seems to be B
80, not the structure I posted before.
The structure of B
80 is very similar to that of C
60. The main difference is that all hexagons in the C
60 are replaced by six equilateral triangles.
(Phys. Rev. B 80, 033410, 2009)
Here is the bead model I made for this molecule. It is quite difficult to make penta- or hexa-valent local structures with rod-like beads, though. This model is not stable.
Maybe, I should try to make another one with rice-shaped beads, But I am not sure that will help.
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