Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires ...

Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed water-splitting catalysts that are both cost-effective ...

Cobalt prices are soaring as a surprise export ban from the world’s largest producing country fuels mounting uncertainty ...

Higher levels of environmental metals in urine are linked to worse cognitive performance and a greater risk of developing dementia.

In a breakthrough for materials science, a team of researchers from Japan, led by Professor Yuya Sakuraba of the National ...

Per Reuters' report, the investment bank expects a 25% duty on copper imports by year's end, incentivizing stockpiling to frontrun the legislative. As a result, U.S. net copper imports could surge by ...

Hannah Stainbank discusses the drawbacks of sustainable batteries such as lithium and cobalt. Questioning how the destructive ...

Recognising that the White House of President Donald Trump is interested in transactional relationships - and seeing the ...

A safer way to extract metals. Old lithium-ion batteries contain valuable metals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese, ...

Cobalt, a key battery metal used in the production of electric vehicles (EVs), is one of the DRC’s major exports. The move comes a mere 15 months after the opening of the processing plant at the ...

Time to take a long hard look at non-metal constructs? We’re referring to PEKK, not PEEK. PEKK is antibacterial, a ...

Hydrogen is a much-debated option in terms of CO₂-neutral energy production. Electrolyzer units that split water into its ...