This is bismuth — a natural chemical element that chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. But there’s a catch with this crystal. While bismuth occurs naturally in the Earth’s crust ...

Bismuth, the 83rd element in the periodic table, has been known since ancient times, but was often confused with lead and tin. In 1753, Claude François Geoffroy from France demonstrated that ...

A discovery by McGill University researchers that challenges conventional wisdom in physics suggests that bismuth, a metal, could serve as the foundation for highly stable electronic components.

The Cold War arms race, Ancient Egyptian make-up and medieval laxatives. What do all these things have in common? They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in 2019! Here are ...

In a study published in Nature Materials, scientists from the University of California, Irvine describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth—a process that may aid the ...

Such molecules have potentially interesting and attractive properties for catalyzing chemical reactions or for use in materials for electronic components. The analog with atoms of bismuth (a heavy ...

In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, their ultra-thin metal sheets – especially one-atom-thick bismuth – showed ...

Bismuth nanosheets (Bi NSs) exhibit high activity and selectivity for formate formation due to their ample reactive sites for the CO 2 RR. Recently, the in situ (electro)chemical transformation of ...

Eric Scerri recounts the story of element 87, which after a number of false starts was finally tracked down in France — and named in its honour. One of the most remarkable things about element ...

Bismuth is also the heaviest element that is not radioactive. This makes bismuth-based compounds, such as BiOI, highly appealing for radiation detectors since the attenuation of ionising radiation ...