Like carbon and silicon, germanium’s lighter brethren on the periodic table, the metalloid can bond to four different groups, forming a chiral, tetrahedral molecule. Researchers at Nankai ...

Shawn C. Burdette and Brett F. Thornton explore how germanium developed from a missing element in Mendeleev's periodic table to an enabler for the information age, while retaining a nomenclature ...

Scientists have developed the first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser composed exclusively of elements from the fourth group of the periodic table -- the 'silicon group ...

Ge (Germanium) Ga (Gallium) in the periodic table with Chinese flag. US vs China chip war or tech war, microchip semiconductor industry concept. China curbs on exports of rare germanium and gallium.

The existence of germanium, in that sense, was predicted by Mendeleev based on the spaces in his newly created periodic table of elements.