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
The team used the technique to create samples of tin, bismuth, lead, indium and gallium, ranging from 5.8Å thick for tin to 9.2Å for gallium. The 6.3Å-thick bismuth sample is just two atoms deep and ...
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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 ...
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Examining the periodic table of elements and how they build life – and our bodies
These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...
Interesting Engineering22d
China’s new silicon-free chip beats Intel with 40% more speed and 10% less energy
The Chinese team’s breakthrough revolves around a bismuth-based transistor that outperforms the most advanced commercial chips from Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and Belgium’s Interuniversity ...
Popular Mechanics23d
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could help us understand transuranium elements more broadly as well as ...
HotHardware24d
New Breakthrough Transistor Tech Claims To Leave TSMC And Intel In The Dust
Built using bismuth oxyselenide (Biâ‚‚Oâ‚‚Se), a high-mobility 2D material, the transistor operates at lower voltages and could enable ultra-dense chip designs with better performance per watt.
Foreign Policy25d
The Periodic Table of States
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Nature26d
Move over graphene! Scientists forge bismuthene and host of atoms-thick metals
The method can be applied to any metal with a low melting point, and the team has used it to make 2D sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, lead and tin. The feat was reported today in Nature 1.
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.