Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War
In the summer of 2023, Vasileios Tsianos, the vice president of corporate development at Neo Performance Materials, started ...
To Unlock Limitless Energy, Scientists Needed a Secret Ingredient—And They May Have Just Found It
The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.
Char made from cigarette butts may help mitigate pollution in waterways
Environmentally hazardous cigarette butts may ironically hold the answer to cleansing Australia's waterways of major metal ...
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After Toxic Monterey Battery Fire, These Scientists Watch Over a Fragile Ecosystem
The flames have died down at the Moss Landing battery storage plant in Monterey County after a massive fire last month.
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MRI reveals real-time metal-ion dissolution in lithium batteries, offering insights into performance decline
Many of the devices that make modern life convenient and efficient rely on rechargeable batteries. Lithium-ion batteries, one ...
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Five Unusual Ways People Used Lead—and Suffered For It
Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...
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Bioleaching and Oxalic Acid for REE Recovery
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans combined with oxalic acid pretreatment significantly improves praseodymium, cerium, and ...
Biological Gold Recycling: BRAIN Biotech AG Collaborates With PX Group On The PX Urban Mining Initiative
BRAIN Biotech is contributing its proprietary bioleaching technology as the core technology for recovering of BioGold TM. The PX Urban Mining Initiative is open to additional partners who wish to ...
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Heavy metal pollution threatens marine life and human health
Heavy metal contamination in Yangshan Port raises concerns for seafood safety, with arsenic and mercury posing health risks.