Publications related to Nobelium

Implementing Multi-Electron Transfer Strategies in Uranium Chemistry

In the last decades, the activation of small molecules has attracted increasing attention for their use as cheap and abundant feedstock. Low-oxidation state uranium complexes have displayed high reactivity towards small molecules thanks to their unique pro ...

EPFL2023

Stabilizing Unusual Oxidation States of Lanthanides in Molecular Complexes: Synthesis, Properties, and Reactivity

Aurélien René Willauer

The chemistry of divalent lanthanides has generated increasing interest in the past years due to their redox properties and unique reaction pathways. Notably, molecular complexes of low-valent lanthanides have been shown to be suitable one-electron reducta ...

EPFL2022

Competitive Dehydrogenation and Backbone Fragmentation of Superhydrogenated PAHs: A Laboratory Study

Eduardo Carrascosa Casado, Robert Richter

Superhydrogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been suggested to catalyze the formation of H-2 in certain regions of space, but it remains unclear under which circumstances this mechanism is viable given the reduced carbon backbone stabilit ...

2021

Structure and small molecule activation reactivity of a metallasilsesquioxane of divalent ytterbium

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Aurélien René Willauer

The first metallasilsesquioxane of a divalent lanthanide, Yb{Cy7Si7O11(OSiMe3)}(THF),1, was synthesized and structurally characterized. The Cy7Si7O11(OSiMe3)(2-)ligands in1bind two Yb(ii) ions in a bridging mode. The dinuclear complex effects the two- ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Colorimetry of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes

Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Julien Alexandre Andres

Europium, terbium, dysprosium, and samarium are the main trivalent lanthanide ions emitting in the visible spectrum. In this work, the potential of these ions for colorimetric applications and colour reproduction was studied. The conversion of spectral dat ...

2020

Electrically isolated and corrosion-resistant micropile or tie

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

The present invention relates to a micropile or tie (10) for connecting a structure (5) to a soil (2), the micropile or tie comprising: - at least one linear metallic element (11), - at least one external corrosion-protective duct (14), inside which is pos ...

2017

4 f occupancy and magnetism of rare-earth atoms adsorbed on metal substrates

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Christian Wäckerlin, Pietro Gambardella, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Romana Baltic, Sebastian Stepanow

We report x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements as well as multiplet calculations for Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm atoms adsorbed on Pt(111), Cu(111), Ag(100), and Ag(111). In the gas phase, all four elements are divalent a ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Magnetic properties of surface-adsorbed single rare earth atoms, molecules, and atomic scale clusters

Aparajita Singha

This thesis presents combined experimental and theoretical investigations of nanoscale, surface-supported magnets based on rare earths (RE) to understand and control the magnetic properties down to the scale of single atoms. We present the effects of adato ...

EPFL2017

Synthesis of molecular complexes for small molecule activation

Julie Renée Michelle Andrez

The redox chemistry of f-elements is drawing the attention of inorganic chemists due to their unusual reaction pathways. Notably low-valent f-element complexes have been shown to be able to activate small molecules such as CO2 and N2 in mild conditions. Co ...

EPFL2016

Microfabricated electrospray emitter arrays with integrated extractor and accelerator electrodes for the propulsion of small spacecraft

Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Daniel George Courtney, Subha Chakraborty

Microfabricated electrospray thrusters could revolutionize the spacecraft industry by providing efficient propulsion capabilities to micro and nano satellites (1–100 kg). We present the modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of a new generation ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

5f-Element complexes with a p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene bearing phosphinoyl pendant arms: Separation from rare earths and structural studies

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli

Phosphinoylated calixarenes feature high coordination ability toward f elements and a great potentiality toward actinide/rare earth separation. Here, we report three characteristic properties of a tetra-phosphinoylated p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene, B(4)bL(4) ...

Elsevier2011

Benzothiazole- and Benzoxazole-Substituted Pyridine-2-Carboxylates as Efficient Sensitizers of Europium Luminescence

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

A facile synthesis of benzothiazole- and benzoxazole-substituted pyridine-2-carboxylic acids has been developed. These ligands form mononuclear nine-coordinate complexes [Ln(κ3-ligand)2(κ1-ligand)(H2O)2] with light and heavy trivalent lanthanides, as estab ...

2009

The Holt-Klee condition for oriented matroids

Holt and Klee have recently shown that every (generic) LP orientation of the graph of a d-polytope satisfies a directed version of the d-connectivity property, i.e. there are d internally disjoint directed paths from a unique source to a unique sink. We in ...

2009

Exploring the potential of europium(III) luminescence for the detection of phase transitions in ionic liquid crystals

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Frédéric Gumy, Joël Kocher

The ionic liquid crystal [C12-mim]Cl has been doped with 5 mol% europium nitrate and the photophysical properties of both the ionic liquid and the trivalent europium ion have been monitored with respect to temperature in the range of 248 to +120 uC. The re ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2007

Mécanismes d'isomérisation et d'échange de ligand de complexes octaédriques labiles de cobalt (II) : étude par RMN et haute pression

Fabrice Riblet

There are only few structural thermodynamic and kinetic studies on labile octahedral complexes available today. Octahedral paramagnetic compounds of cobalt(II) have an optimum electronic relaxation leading to NMR spectra with good resolution. Therefore, th ...

EPFL2007

Selective Self-Assembly of Hexameric Homo- and Heteropolymetallic Lanthanide Wheels: Synthesis, Structure, and Photophysical Studies

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Marinella Mazzanti

A rational approach to the formation of pure heteropolymetallic lanthanide complexes that uses a two-step assembly strategy and exploits the different size requirements of the two metals included in the final structure is described. The investigation of th ...

2007

A Theoretical Characterization of Covalency in Rare Earth Complexes through Their Absorption Electronic Properties: f-f Transitions

Alain Borel

Experimental uncertainties concerning the coordination mode of trivalent plutonium in concentrated LiCl have led us to theoretically evaluate the f-f transitions of a series of rare earth aquo and chloro complexes. The calculation of Pr(III), U(III), Np(II ...

2006