Recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of diagnostic and therapeutic
radiopharmaceuticals and concurrent miniaturization of particle accelerators leading to …

Technologically critical rare-earth elements are notoriously difficult to separate, owing to
their subtle differences in ionic radius and coordination number,–. The natural lanthanide …

Producing pure substances has been the obsession of scientists for centuries and has
defined chemistry as we know it. Nowadays, most of our economy still relies on the chemist …

The design of selective metal-binding sites is a challenge in both small-molecule and
macromolecular chemistry. Selective recognition of manganese (II)—the first-row transition …

The synthesis and study of radioactive compounds are both inherently limited by their
toxicity, cost and isotope scarcity. Traditional methods using small inorganic or organic …

Developing chelators that combine high affinity and selectivity for lanthanides and/or
actinides is paramount for numerous industries, including rare earths mining, nuclear waste …

Lanthanides were recently discovered as metals required in the active site of certain
methanol dehydrogenases. Since then, the characterization of the lanthanome, that is …

Living systems are built from a small subset of the atomic elements, including the bulk
macronutrients (C, H, N, O, P, S) and ions (Mg, K, Na, Ca) together with a small but variable …

The separation and recycling of lanthanides is an active area of research with a growing
demand that calls for more environmentally friendly lanthanide sources. Likewise, the …

Lanmodulin (LanM), a naturally lanthanide (Ln)-binding protein with a remarkable selectivity
for Lns over Ca (II) and affinities in the picomolar range, is an attractive target to address …