---
# === Required fields  ===
# Your name 
name: "Astatine"
# Your profile picture
imgname: 
  name: "img/main.jpg"
  alt: "Picture of me"
  type: image/jpeg
# More sources can be added (optional) using 
# imgOther:
#   - name: $IMAGE_PATH
#     type: $IMAGE_TYPE
#   - name: $IMAGE_PATH
#     type: $IMAGE_TYPE
# ...
# A title (job title or "Researcher", "PhD student", etc.)
personal_title: "Chemical element"
# An address (you can list multiple)
address: 
  - 
    name: Everywhere
    street: Nowhere
    postal_code: "000000"
    locality: Earth

# === Optional fields ===
# Add an email with a mailto: hyperlink
# email: aaaa@example.com
# Add an email "image" for spam protection. With light and dark mode
# emailImg: 
#   dark: /img/dark_email.png
#   light: /img/light_email.png

# List your publications. The required fields are pdf, title, and image 
# (which should be the image path). The other fields are optional.
publications:
  - 
    authors:
        - name: Rothe, S. 
          me: true
        - name: Andreyev, A. N. 
        - name: Antalic, S.
        - name: Borschevsky, A.
        - name: Capponi, L.
        - name: Cocolios, T. E.
        - name: De Witte, H.
        - name: Eliav, E.
    title: "Measurement of the First Ionization Potential of Astatine by Laser Ionization Spectroscopy"
    # Will write "In ${journal}, ${date}"
    date: 2013
    journal: Nature Communications
    image: img/paper_illustration.png
    # A bibtex (or any other format) citation that people can copy directly from the website.
    citation: "@article{article,\n
author = {Rothe, Sebastian and Andreyev, A and Antalic, Stanislav and Borschevsky, Anastasia and Capponi, Luigi and Cocolios, Thomas and De Witte, Hilde and Eliav, Ephraim and Fedorov, D.V. and Fedosseev, Valentin and Fink, D and Fritzsche, s and Ghys, Lars and Huyse, M and Imai, Nobuaki and Kaldor, U and Kudryavtsev, Yu and Koester, Ulli and Lane, J and Wendt, Klaus},\n
year = {2013},\n
month = {05},\n
pages = {1835},\n
title = {Measurement of the first ionization potential of astatine by laser ionization spectroscopy},\n
volume = {4},\n
journal = {Nature communications},\n
doi = {10.1038/ncomms2819}\n
}"
    pdf: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2819.pdf
    # A list of link that will appear as badges at the bottom of the publication.
    links:
      -
        name: Main URL
        url: "https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2819"
      -
        name: ResearchGate
        url: "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236836716_Measurement_of_the_first_ionization_potential_of_astatine_by_laser_ionization_spectroscopy"
    # A description for the paper.
    description: The radioactive element astatine exists only in trace amounts in nature. Its properties can therefore only be explored by study of the minute quantities of artificially produced isotopes or by performing theoretical calculations. One of the most important properties influencing the chemical behaviour is the energy required to remove one electron from the valence shell, referred to as the ionization potential.
---

# Bio

I am a chemical element with the symbol At and atomic number 85. I am 
the rarest naturally occurring element in the Earth's crust, occurring only as
the decay product of various heavier elements. All of my isotopes are
short-lived; the most stable is astatine-210, with a half-life of 8.1 hours. 

A pure sample of myself has never been assembled, because any macroscopic
specimen would be immediately vaporized by the heat of its own radioactivity.