BUFFALO, N.Y. — You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don’t participate in chemical bonding. They’re thought to be too deep inside an atom and close to the nucleus to ...

It is not often that chemists create a new kind of chemical bond, but they have just done it. A covalent bond that relies on a single electron has been made almost a century after it was first ...

A University at Buffalo study provides new insights about core electrons, including their role in the B1-B2 transition that sees a compound's atomic crystal structure rearrange from an octahedral ...