The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle of how actinides bond with ligands through phi bonds has been identified, with its ...

Such molecules would be suited to acting as quantum bits, or qubits, the basic unit of information in quantum systems. But ...

Electronegativity, an essential characteristic of all elements in the periodic table, measures an atom's ability to attract electrons towards itself within a chemical bond. This vital theoretical ...

Everything in the world is made from about 100 different chemical elements that join together in different ways to form all the solids, liquids and gases we see around us. All of the elements have ...

The find not only confirms a 14-year-old prediction - it also confirms the existence of a whole new type of atomic bond. Rydberg molecules form when an electron is kicked far from an atom's ...

Ken Wade recalls his own undistinguished part in the space race, and notes how carboranes revitalized boron hydride chemistry and modified our ideas of chemical bonding. In the 1950s, during the ...

The opposite is true if we want to make new bonds. Energy is released when new chemical bonds are formed, so bond making is an exothermic process. Breaking or making the same chemical bond will ...

Common to most polyamorphic materials is the directionality of the atomic bonds. On page 192 of this issue, Hongwei Sheng and co-workers report on polyamorphism in a metallic glass, where the ...