The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

THE study of the laws governing the combinations of molecules containing carbon is of the very first importance to chemical science, inasmuch as this study so well illustrates and extends the ...

Chemical elements on the periodic table also have family resemblances that could provide predictive insight into the way elements interact, leading scientists to not-yet-imagined applications.

Sir Martyn Poliakoff is a Research Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham where ... many different areas and his published work involves more than 50 different elements. In recent ...