Metals react differently. Some are very reactive and others are unreactive. Observations of reactions can be used to put metals into an order of reactivity. For example, copper is unreactive so it can ...

For more than a century, magnesium has been prized as a reactive metal capable of facilitating a range of important organic syntheses—the Grignard reaction, for example. For calcium, which sits just ...

DURING corrosion, the more reactive metals, for example, aluminium, zirconium, titanium and uranium, usually form a protective oxide film which reduces the corrosion-rate to a low value. Recently, it ...

Ultrathin metal layers can be highly active carbon dioxide electroreduction catalysts, but may also be prone to oxidation. Here we construct a model of graphene confined ultrathin layers of highly ...