An orbital structure is the space in an atom that’s occupied by an electron. But when describing these super-microscopic properties of matter, scientists have had to rely on wave functions — a ...

This energy loss provides detailed information about the electronic structure of the material, helping scientists understand how electrons, like those in the 5f orbital of uranium, behave and ...

One of the new particles created, the spinon, carries the electron's spin and the other, the orbiton, the increased orbital energy.

Every scheme of assigning electrons to molecular orbitals is a configuration, and where states with different configurations have the same symmetry they interact with one another under the influence ...

Scientists at OIST have defied a foundational rule in chemistry by creating a stable 20-electron version of ferrocene—an organometallic molecule once thought to be limited to 18 valence ...