Beyond the Periodic Table’s Edge: Scientists Unravel New Chemistry for Heavy Elements
Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...
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Australian "Science Nerd" Trying To Collect Every Element May Be Jailed After Reaching Plutonium
Unlike other elements reportedly gathered by Lidden, the plutonium sparked a major hazmat alert, requiring a response from ...
Berkeley Lab creates new molecule that could point the way to safe disposal of nuclear waste
After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...
Chemistry World19d
Metal layers just a few angstroms thick display unusual electronic properties
A new way to create ultra-thin layers of metals makes it possible for scientists to study a new and unusual class of 2D materials. Researchers in China used the technique to make layers of five ...
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Bismuth Confined in Thick Nitrogen-Doped Carbon for Durable Low-Temperature Potassium-Ion Batteries
Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE and Jiangsu Provincial Laboratory for Nanotechnology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China ...
Interesting Engineering22d
China’s new silicon-free chip beats Intel with 40% more speed and 10% less energy
The new bismuth-based transistor could revolutionize chip design, offering higher efficiency while bypassing silicon’s limitations.
Popular Mechanics23d
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the transuranium element berkelium. According to a new study, the electronic signature ...
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New Breakthrough Transistor Tech Claims To Leave TSMC And Intel In The Dust
For decades, the semiconductor industry has been laser-focused on shrinking silicon transistors, but Peking University researchers believe the future might lie in changing materials entirely.
Foreign Policy25d
The Periodic Table of States
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Nature26d
Move over graphene! Scientists forge bismuthene and host of atoms-thick metals
Taking inspiration from ancient techniques, researchers have forged relatively large sheets of metal that are just atoms thick, enabling them to more readily study the weird properties of these ...
PC Gamer26d
Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed
Well, the Peking team has used bismuth in both the semiconductor and high-dielectric oxide. It's a post-transitional metal, which also applies to lead, gallium, indium and tin, among others.
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Bismuth Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Mesoporous Carbon as Anodes for Sodium- and Potassium-Ion Batteries
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Green Preparation and Functionalization for Inorganic Materials, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710021, ...