Platinum works beautifully. It speeds up chemical reactions, holds up under punishment, and sits reliably at the center of ...

A research team at King’s College London has isolated a triangular aluminum compound, called a cyclotrialumane, that can ...

Aluminium redox catalysis and reactive aluminium clusters showcase main-group element's transition-metal-like reactivity ...

Precious metals like palladium and platinum are often used as chemical catalysts, but true to their name, they’re expensive to source. Scientists may have just found a cheaper alternative.

A newly isolated three-atom aluminum ring reveals unexpected chemistry that could help replace costly metals used in ...

Platinum-group metals (PGMs) are great catalysts, but they’re also great investments — in the sense that they are very, very expensive. Just ask the guy nicking car exhausts in the ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research is building the case that aluminum, one of Earth’s most abundant metals, can match or outperform gold and silver in the field of plasmonics, the science of ...

Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust and one that we use in so many products, yet at one time it was more expensive than gold. There is a lot of fascinating facts and applications ...