Giving actinide chemistry a new start

Leslie G Castro^{1

2}, Nolwenn Mahieu³

Affiliations

¹ Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
² Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
³ Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. nmahieu@lbl.gov.

Leslie G Castro et al. Nat Rev Chem. 2025 Feb.

. 2025 Feb;9(2):86-87.

doi: 10.1038/s41570-024-00682-3.

Leslie G Castro^{1

2}, Nolwenn Mahieu³

¹ Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
² Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
³ Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. nmahieu@lbl.gov.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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