Although various measurement techniques are available to obtain information about the electronic structure of actinide atoms in chemical bonds, that information is of limited usefulness.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...

The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...

The research could help in the development of improved radiotherapeutic products and contribute to a deeper understanding of the behavior of actinide compounds in the environment and in nuclear ...

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

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

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing ...

A research team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered ...

The synthetic element berkelium has been trapped between two carbon rings to create berkelocene for the first time, one of ...