Schadel, Matthias

Schadel, Matthias. Chemistry of Superheavy Elements. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 45 (2006) 368M-01. This is a review article accessible to most scientists and, to some extent, a more general readership and is the source for most of the discussion of superheavy elements in this chapter. 

In a review published in 2006, GSI nuclear chemist Matthias Schadel noted that until the early 1980s scientists expected an island of stability centered at Z = 114 and N = 184 which was surrounded by a sea of instability. He declared that current studies... 

Acknowledgment The author is grateful to Brigitta Schausten, Dawn Shaughnessy and Matthias Schadel for their editing of the article. 

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