To see precisely how the rare-earth metals interact with MOFs, Ilgen used X-ray spectroscopy to examine the chemical environment of three rare-earth elements in zirconium-based MOFs and chromium ...

The willingness of the 4f orbitals of lanthanide metals to participate in chemical reactions is as rare as their presence in ...

Rare earth elements and rare earth metals refer to ... including tantalum, niobium, indium, zirconium and gallium. These metals are genuinely rare and valuable, but they are not members of the ...

This study presents a nitrogen-doped zirconium carbide that demonstrates remarkable ablation resistance, outperforming ...

Rutherfordium, the 104th element on the periodic table ... hafnium chloride was found to be less volatile than zirconium chloride (that is, a lower enthalpy of adsorption than zirconium chloride).

Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium alloy (zircalloy) tubes are filled with ceramic fuel pellets, which get assembled into fuel assemblies for loading into the reactor.