Researchers from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of ...

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

Argonne scientists have unveiled new methods for controlling material properties. The breakthrough enables researchers to ...

Unlike the vast majority of elements, the rare earth element promethium has no stable isotopes, which means that it is ...

US president Donald Trump recently signed an agreement to share Ukraine’s mineral resources. Just how scarce are rare earth ...

A fundamental understanding of photosynthesis in nature is crucial for applied photosynthesis, which may well prove to play a key role in overcoming some of the greatest challenges that humankind is ...

Scientists know well how conventional materials conduct heat. However, things are not as straightforward under extreme ...

Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...

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

“The electronic structure calculations, as well as the experimental observations, show that berkelocene is unlike its lanthanide analogs, which disrupts long-held assumptions about the chemical and ...

This makes its behavior different from the lanthanide terbium, which is located above actinides in the periodic table. “The electronic structure calculations, as well as the experimental ...