This review tries to illuminate how the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 is able to allocate essential transition metal cations to their target proteins although these metals have similar charge-to-surface ratios and chemical features, exert toxic effects, compete with each other, and occur in the bacterial environment over a huge range of concentrations and speciations. Central to this...

Bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) are complex systems with properties that far exceed those of the individual constituents. In particular, association a noble metal and first-row transition attracting increasing interest for applications in catalysis, electrocatalysis, magnetism, among others. Such objects display rich structural chemistry thanks to their ability form intermetallic phases, random ...

Compared to the large number of main group Zintl compounds there are only a few that contain transition metals.[1] This is not surprising since the traditional definition of Zintl phases automatically excludes transition metals. However, many such compounds with transition metals can qualify for Zintl phases when a broader definition is used. The latter includes compounds of transition metals w...