Actinide elements produce a plethora of interesting physical behaviors due to the 5 f states.
This review compiles and analyzes progress in the understanding of the electronic and …

To facilitate the discovery and design of innovative nuclear fuels, multi-scale models and
simulations are used to predict irradiation effects on properties such as thermal conductivity …

Uranium and plutonium's 5f electrons are tenuously poised between strongly bonding with
ligand spd-states and residing close to the nucleus. The unusual properties of these …

The behavior of 5f electrons in soft ligand environments makes actinides, and especially
transuranium chalcogenides, an intriguing class of materials for fundamental studies. Due to …

Plutonium (Pu), in which the 5 f valence electrons always wander the boundary between
localized and itinerant states, exhibits quite complex crystal structures and unprecedentedly …

Actinide-based compounds exhibit unique physics due to the presence of 5f electrons, and
serve in many cases as important technological materials. Targeted thin film synthesis of …

We present here an overview of the properties of transuranium superconductors, but also of
the (non-superconducting) transuranium analogues of uranium superconductors. We briefly …

A combination of the density functional theory and the single-site dynamical mean-field
theory is employed to study the pressure dependence of the electronic structure for cubic …

The temperature-dependent evolution pattern of 5 f electrons helps to elucidate the long-
standing itinerant-localized dual nature in plutonium-based compounds. In this work, we …

The scientifically fascinating question of the spatial extent and bonding of the 5 f orbitals of
Pu and its six different phases extends to its δ-retained alloys and the mechanism by which …