Lanthanum is a metallic chemical element (atomic number 57) that serves as the prototypical member of the lanthanide series, characterized by the gradual filling of 4f orbitals. In its common +3 oxidation state, lanthanum forms predominantly ionic compounds with high coordination numbers and exhibits relatively low magnetic moment due to the absence of 4f electrons in La³⁺. It has notable roles in materials science and solid-state chemistry, including as a component in perovskite-type oxides, phosphors, and catalysts, where its ionic radius, polarizability, and redox behavior influence structural stability, defect chemistry, and electronic properties.
In an increasingly connected world, rare earth metals with odd names such as lanthanum, cerium and yttrium have become strategic assets. They are used in everything from mobile phones to wind turbines to electric vehicles. ...
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Researchers at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, precisely measured atomic masses of radioactive lanthanum isotopes and found an interesting feature in their nuclear binding energies. The ...
General Physics
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For the first time, physicists have observed excited states in the very neutron-deficient odd-odd nucleus, lanthanum-120. The study, published in Physics Letters B, was conducted by researchers from the Institute of Modern ...
General Physics
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Researchers from Skoltech, Jilin University and Beijing HPSTAR in China, and their German colleagues have synthesized and studied a new type of hydrogen-rich superconductor. Technically referred to as an A15-type lanthanum ...
Superconductivity
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Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from MIPT and China's Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research have computationally explored the stability of the bizarre compounds of hydrogen, lanthanum, ...
Superconductivity
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Researchers have devised a method for combining high-cost platinum and a low-cost rare earth element, lanthanum, as an alloy to serve as a catalyst in the next generation of fuel cells that will improve their performance ...
Nanomaterials
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