The Periodic Table II: Catalytic, Materials, Biological and Medical Applications

As 2019 has been declared the International Year of the Periodic Table, it is appropriate that Structure and Bonding marks this anniversary with two special volumes.

In 1869 Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleev first proposed his periodic table of the elements. He is given the major credit for proposing the conceptual framework used by chemists to systematically inter—relate the chemical properties of the elements. However, the concept of periodicity evolved in distinct stages and was the culminati...