The significant interest in actinide bonding has recently focused on novel compounds with
exotic oxidation states. However, the difficulty in obtaining relevant high-quality experimental …

Growing necessity for efficient nuclear waste management is a driving force for development
of alternative architectures toward fundamental understanding of mechanisms involved in …

Ligand field density functional theory calculations of the dioxides of thorium, uranium, and
plutonium have been combined with high-energy-resolution fluorescence detection …

X-ray spectroscopies, by their high selectivity and sensitivity to the chemical environment
around the atoms probed, provide significant insights into the electronic structures of …

We report here a detailed experimental and theoretical investigation of hexavalent uranium
in various local configurations with a high-energy-resolution fluorescence-detected X-ray …

The structural characterisation of actinide nanoparticles (NPs) is of primary importance and
hard to achieve, especially for non‐homogeneous samples with NPs less than 3 nm. By …

In order to explain all of the spectral features observed in the UO 4, 5 x-ray absorption
spectrum of uranium dioxide (UO 2), it is necessary to include both multielectron effects and …

A systematic X-ray absorption study at the U 3d, 4d, and 4f edges of UO2 was performed,
and the data were analyzed within framework of the Anderson impurity model. By applying …

The [AnIV (DPA) 3] 2− series with An= Th, U, Np, Pu has been synthesized and
characterized using SC-XRD and vibrational spectroscopy. First principles calculations were …

The europium–oxygen interaction in nine different europium (III) oxo-compounds (including
C-type Eu2O3) was investigated on the basis of powder reflectance spectra (near-IR/vis/UV) …