Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to landfill, and using this reclaimed gold for drug manufacture reduces the need to mine new materials. Current catalysts are often made of rare metals, which ...
Materials Science
Dec 9, 2022
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A group from Nagoya University in Japan has discovered a never-before-seen form of ruthenium phosphide with an unusual configuration of atoms and electrons in its cooled state. This may resolve the puzzle of how a metal can ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 30, 2022
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A team of researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working with a pair of colleagues from Harvard University, has developed a new way to synthesize single quantum nanomagnets that are based on metal-free, multi-porphyrin ...
Researchers have devised a method for combining high-cost platinum and a low-cost rare earth element, lanthanum, as an alloy to serve as a catalyst in the next generation of fuel cells that will improve their performance ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 11, 2022
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Sparklers can be a lot of fun—glimmering, fizzing and spitting out arcs of light from handheld sticks or tubes on the ground. But the metals that they're usually made with limit what the sparks can look like. Now, researchers ...
Materials Science
Sep 21, 2022
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The discovery of high temperature superconductors in polyhydrides encourages searching for new types of hydrogen rich superconductors. Most of experimentally reported high Tc polyhydride superconductors are binary hydrides ...
Superconductivity
Aug 29, 2022
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Rare-earth metals are indispensable for many technical products, from smartphones, laptops, batteries, electromotors, and wind turbines, to catalysts. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a Japanese team has now introduced a ...
Materials Science
Aug 22, 2022
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What do corncobs and tomato peels have to do with electronics? They both can be used to salvage valuable rare earth elements, like neodymium, from electronic waste. Penn State researchers used micro- and nanoparticles created ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2022
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Rare earth metals, when linked, can act as a conduit for energy flow, and show promise for the development of novel materials.
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 12, 2022
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The development of highly efficient energy storage devices that can store renewable energy is crucial to a sustainable future. In today's world, solid-state rechargeable lithium ion (Li+) batteries are the state of the art. ...
Materials Science
Aug 4, 2022
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