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Innovation award for an acid-free rare earth metals recycling process which can also recover cobalt
Researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) and Ames Laboratory invented a magnet recycling process in which magnets are dissolved in water-based solutions, recovering more than 99 percent p...
Cobalt a high-performance material to come to the artificial intelligence sector
Cobalt’s properties which allow for increasing chip performance, could lead it to have a major place in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. As Cobalt works better at higher densities, it may b...
Introducing the Cobalt Industry Responsible Assessment Framework (CIRAF)
The Cobalt Institute (CI) is pleased to announce further progress in the Cobalt Industry Responsible Assessment Framework (CIRAF). This is the latest stage in the on-going process of establishing CIRA...
Argus LiCoNi 2018
The 2nd edition of Argus LiCoNi will take place in Singapore on 28 and 29 August 2018. The event will provide a platform for stakeholders in the battery metals industry to meet and discuss upcoming...
Scientists find way to make lithium-ion batteries last longer: it requires more cobalt
American scientists from the University of Maryland, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the U.S. Army Research Lab think they have found a way to make lithium-ion ba...
Cobalt promises to reduce unwanted resistance in the critical parts of a chip
The company Applied Materials has launched a suite of products that will enable cobalt metallization schemes for contacts and interconnects in chips at advanced nodes. Cobalt helps solve unwanted resi...
