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

Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying ...

The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the chemistry of the elements ... A heavy metal molecule with Berkeley roots Berkelium is one of 15 actinides in the periodic table's f-block.

That’s one reason why precious metals are precious, John Cowan, an astrophysicist at the University of Oklahoma said. The presence of elements ... guide to the periodic table “There ...

After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

Our bodies require other elements, including non-metal elements such as phosphorus ... These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

Organometallic molecules, which consist of a metal ion surrounded by a carbon ... actinides behave relative to their peers in the periodic table," said Stefan Minasian, a scientist in Berkeley ...

Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...

Ram Mohan looks at how bismuth — a remarkably harmless element among the toxic heavy metals in the periodic table — has sparked interest in areas varying from medicinal to industrial chemistry.