User:Ephineprine/Borospherene/MG4cats Peer Review

General info
Ephineprine
 * Whose work are you reviewing?


 * Link to draft you're reviewing:User:Ephineprine/Borospherene
 * Link to the current version of the article (if it exists):Borospherene

Evaluate the drafted changes
Lead


 * I'm a big fan of your updates to the lead! Everything I had noticed in the original article was addressed
 * There are some links that lead nowhere though

History


 * I think that "B40-" is difficult to read (the minus sign gets visually lost). For the article, you could write "The B40 anion" instead? E.g., "Anionic B40 clusters were transiently produced..." and "quasi-planar global energetic minimum of anionic B40 (Cs symmetry)" instead of B40-
 * "The experimental spectrum observed" is redundant -- can just say the experimental spectrum or the observed spectrum
 * You mention that there were "decades of theoretical investigations into boron cage structures." It might be useful to mention what the motivation is (why were scientists studying boron clusters for so long?)
 * The second sentence of the second paragraph would be less confusing if split into two sentences -- e.g., 1 sentence explaining that there is a large HOMO-LUMO gap and why that affects the ground state isomer, and a 2nd sentence discussing the dimerization

Structure


 * HUGE fan of your updates to the paragraphs that had been previously written in this section!
 * Love the Pekka Pyykkö citation
 * I think there is an "and" missing in the 2nd sentence of the 2nd paragraph
 * Quoting some bond lengths from buckminsterfullerene might strengthen your discussion of their different degrees of electron delocalization
 * "modeled possible B40 structures on computer" could probably be rewritten

Potential applications


 * You wrote that metal dopants transfer charge to the B40 cage -- is this theorized or did they actually do it? I thought this molecule was only transiently observed?
 * There's also mention of B40 being thermally stable up to 1000 K -- how did they determine this if it was so briefly generated?
 * The link to the Φ-type sensor wikipedia page does not work
 * There are a few places where en-dashes are used in place of em-dashes and I believe that the semicolon at the end of the last paragraph in the Small molecule sensing section should be a comma, unless you remove "but"
 * Gravimetric density wikipedia link is broken