Chemistry and physics are combining forces at Columbia, and it's leaving everyone frustrated—in a good way. New work, ...

An orbital structure is the space in an atom that’s occupied by an electron. But when describing these super-microscopic properties of matter, scientists have had to rely on wave functions — a ...

Figure 1. (a) Distribution of a butterfly-shaped 3d electron orbital. (b) Valence electron density distribution around the titanium (Ti3+) ion at the centre of the titanium oxide (TiO6 ...