Nanoparticles are of great scientific interest as they have high surface area to volume ratio, excellent optical properties and good diffusion properties, particularly at high temperatures. Samarium ...

An international team has shown that the puzzling properties of samarium hexaboride do not stem from the material being a topological insulator, as it had been proposed to be. Theoretical and initial ...

Nuclear triumph Zeynep Talip, Rugard Dressler, and Dorothea Schumann (left to right) revel in their success at measuring the half-life of samarium-146. (Courtesy: Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus ...

Researchers at Purdue University have shown how to shuttle lithium ions back and forth into the crystal structure of samarium nickelate, a quantum material, opening the door to a representing a new ...

THE discovery that the radioactivity of potassium is due to a minor isotopic constituent, suggests the idea that other common elements may also have radioactive isotopes present in small amounts. This ...