Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from aerospace and defense to computing. While its global distribution is uneven, ...

Cadmium (Cd) isotopes have great potential for understanding Cd geochemical cycling in soil and aquatic systems. Iron (oxyhydr)oxides can sequester Cd via adsorption and isomorphous substitution, but ...

Piezoelectric materials have attracted considerable attention over the last two decades because many technologies utilize their core properties of piezoelectric materials. Previous applications ...

The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry spells and wet weather all leave ...

In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry spells and wet weather all leave ...

The increasing use of silver-containing nanoparticles (NPs) in commercial products has led to NP accumulation in the environment and potentially in food webs. Identifying the uptake pathways of ...

Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth and one of the least studied within the periodic table, mostly ...