Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects.

The quantum-mechanical nuclear-shell structure determines the stability and limits of the existence of the heaviest nuclides with large proton numbers Z ≳ 100 (refs. ). Shell effects also affect the sizes and shapes of atomic nuclei, as shown by laser spectroscopy studies in lighter nuclides.

On the adsorption and reactivity of element 114, flerovium.

Flerovium (Fl, element 114) is the heaviest element chemically studied so far. To date, its interaction with gold was investigated in two gas-solid chromatography experiments, which reported two different types of interaction, however, each based on the level of a few registered atoms only. Whereas noble-gas-like properties were suggested from the first experiment, the second one pointed at a volatile-metal-like character.

First Study on Nihonium (Nh, Element 113) Chemistry at TASCA.

Nihonium (Nh, element 113) and flerovium (Fl, element 114) are the first superheavy elements in which the shell is occupied. High volatility and inertness were predicted for Fl due to the strong relativistic stabilization of the closed sub-shell, which originates from a large spin-orbit splitting between the and orbitals. One unpaired electron in the outermost sub-shell in Nh is expected to give rise to a higher chemical reactivity.

Some Remarks on the Discovery of ^{244}Md.

In two recent papers by Pore et al. and Khuyagbaatar et al., discovery of the new isotope ^{244}Md was reported.

Search for Electron-Capture Delayed Fission in the New Isotope ^{244}Md.

The electron-capture decay followed by a prompt fission process was searched for in the hitherto unknown most neutron-deficient Md isotope with mass number 244. Alpha decay with α-particle energies of 8.73-8.