The growing popularity of lithium-ion batteries in recent years has put a strain on the world's supply of cobalt and nickel—two metals integral to current battery designs—and sent prices surging.
Materials Science
Sep 10, 2019
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Increasingly scarce metals are being recovered from mining waste by University of Queensland researchers, who are making the most of native plants' metal-absorbing nature.
Biotechnology
Jul 16, 2019
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Vast quantities of scarce metals are being lost from Europe's urban mine of vehicles, including 20 tonnes of gold each year—and the proportion of critical metals in vehicles is continuing to increase. A database has been ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 7, 2018
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Scarce metals are found in a wide range of everyday objects around us. They are complicated to extract, difficult to recycle and so rare that several of them have become "conflict minerals" which can promote conflicts and ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 19, 2017
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A large-scale shift from coal-fired electric power plants and gasoline-fueled cars to wind turbines and electric vehicles could increase demand for two already-scarce metals — available almost exclusively in China — ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 7, 2012
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