Magnetic materials have become indispensable to various technologies that support our modern society, such as data storage ...

Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the ...

Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While ...

Pitt researcher Karl Johnson and scholar Priyanka Bholanath Shukla collaborate to help strengthen an essential electron theory ...

Nitrogen gas (N2) is one of the most abundant yet highly stable gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Its N≡N triple bond has an ...

Breakthrough in N2 activation! This study unveils an electron catalysis strategy that directly converts N2 into azo compounds ...

albeit with slightly larger slices of bread made from cyclooctatetraene (COT), which is a better fit for the heavy metal’s 5f electron orbitals. Sandwiches of COT with other actinides soon ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, China Key Laboratory of 3D Micro/Nano Fabrication and Characterization of Zhejiang ...

Key Laboratory of Low-Grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, Ministry of Education of PRC, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing ...

Atoms of these elements have between 90 and 103 electrons, some of which can be found in their 5f orbitals. The arrangement of these many electrons is much more affected by quantum mechanical ...