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For the first time, scientists have characterized a promethium coordination complex, advancing the understanding of ...

Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

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Heavy element researchers have been keen to lock down the 15 radioactive elements in the periodic table's actinide series using carbon-based ... table suggests that berkelium would behave like the ...

Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100048, China Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of ...

The Heavy Element Chemistry group in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical ... this discovery proved researchers cannot treat actinides like lanthanides, showing that the f-orbitals display different ...

According to a new study, the electronic signature of the actinide element acts differently than lanthanides, which is what scientists previously expected. Understanding the atomic behavior of ...

However, unlike these widely available elements, the rarity of berkelium meant the team had little breathing space for their experiment, even with the donation of an additional supply of the element ...

One row above the actinides are the lanthanides. The pioneering nuclear ... For many years, the Heavy Element Chemistry group in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division has been dedicated ...