Catalysis using gold has fast become a major research field with great potential, and many new discoveries are being made. Graham Hutchings reflects on how this has come about. Gold is the most ...

Jean-Marie Tarascon ponders on the value of lithium, an element known for about 200 years, whose importance is now fast increasing in view of the promises it holds for energy storage and electric ...

A piece of gold contains only gold atoms ... For example, Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin for lead, plumbum).W stands for tungsten (from the word wolfram) and ...

Apart from being a precious metal, gold is also, of course, a chemical element. If we take a look at the periodic table of elements, we can find gold, or "aurum" in Latin, under number 79.

Gold has a unique electronic structure giving it exceptional chemical traits that translate into subtle interactions with biological ... The team used a special setup of synchrotron cryo-X-ray ...