Nature

Accurate first-principles structures and energies of diversely bonded systems from an efficient density functional

One atom or molecule binds to another through various types of bond, the strengths of which range from several meV to several eV. Although some computational methods can provide accurate descriptions ...
MIT Technology Review

Metals Become Molecular-Like at the Atomic Scale, Reveal Materials Scientists

One of the defining characteristics of metals is the way they are held together. Essentially, a lattice of metal ions sits in a sea of delocalised electrons and this acts as a kind of glue that binds ...
PBS

Metal Basics

Let's take a look at a paper clip. A typical paper clip is made up of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms of iron. These atoms are tightly packed and in a crystalline structure, a regular arrangement ...
Medicine Buffalo

Core electron bonding may not always require extreme pressure, study finds

BUFFALO, N.Y. — You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don’t participate in chemical bonding. They’re thought to be too deep inside an atom and close to the nucleus to ...
Medicine Buffalo

Core electron bonding may not always require extreme pressure

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don’t participate in chemical bonding. They’re thought to be too deep inside an atom and close to the nucleus to meaningfully ...