Our recent work on the puzzling two-peaked X-ray absorption structure in certain cerium complexes is now tagged as VIP-very important paper and featured on the front cover of Chemistry-A European Journal!
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Surprise! At high pressures, curium can form unexpected covalent bonds. āļø Study led by @TEAS_Actinides, #UBuffalo's Jochen Autschbach (@AutschbachLab) and Eva Zurek, and @RWTH. Published today in Nature: buffalo.edu/news/releases/20⦠Adventures in high-pressure #chemistry!
ALT Crystals of a curium-containing compound. Credit: Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt, originally published in Nature.