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The TAN 19 conference, held in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, August 25 to 30, 2019, was the sixth in the series of international conferences dedicated to recent achievements and developments in experiments and theory of the chemistry and physics of transactinide elements. ...

The six superheavy elements with atomic numbers 107-112 were discovered at GSI. They were produced in nuclear fusion reactions using shell-stabilized target nuclei at and around doubly-magic 208Pb. These reaction partners allow compound nuclei containing all nucleons of the projectile and target nuclei to be produced at low excitation energy. ...

“Is there still room for more elements in the modern periodic table with its currently 118 elements? Will we need another extra series in the periodic table besides the classical s–, p–, and d–block, and the lanthanides/actinides? Will the periodic table in this region still feature periodicity? …" ...

In a current paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), we report the first ionization potentials (IP1) of the heavy actinides, fermium (Fm, atomic number Z = 100), mendelevium (Md, Z = 101), nobelium (No, Z = 102), and lawrencium (Lr, Z = 103). ...

17th Workshop on Recoil Separator for Superheavy Element Chemistry ...

Oscillations in the atomic nucleus of thorium-229 to be used as pulse generator for future nuclear clocks ...

A race is on to create the world's heaviest elements ...

Michael Götz, PhD student in our group, is the winner of the first poster prize at the annual meeting of the Section Nuclear Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) at the Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2017 in Berlin. ...

16th Workshop on Recoil Separator for Superheavy Element Chemistry ...

The direct detection of the exotic isomeric state in thorium-229 at the LMU Munich, achieved in collaboration with our group, belongs to the IOP's "Physics World Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year 2016" ...