Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...

The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

Key TakeawaysScientists have discovered "berkelocene," the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the ...

Research is now underway to develop new technologies for the reprocessing facility planned as part of the Experimental ...

Berkelocene is likely to be an end of an era for actinide chemistry. The elements beyond californium can only be produced a single atom at a time in particle accelerators, making it unlikely a ...

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Key Laboratory for the Design and Application of Actinide Complexes, University of South China, 28 Changsheng West Road, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, P.