Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries ...

Valence bond theory offers a description of chemical bonding in which atomic orbitals overlap to form localized electron pairs, blending ionic and covalent contributions to yield resonance energies ...

Quantum entanglement offers a unified ab initio framework for revealing chemical bonds, from Lewis structures to aromatic and reaction bonds. (Nanowerk News) Chemical bonding is one of the central ...

Twistronics is based on a surprisingly powerful idea. When two thin crystalline layers are rotated relative to each other, their atomic patterns no longer line up perfectly. The resulting mismatch can ...

Researchers showed that strong metal-polymer bonding depends on electron donation from polymer functional groups into vacant orbitals on oxidized metal surfaces. By engineering oxygen vacancies and ...