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Water changes how cobalt-based molecule turns carbon dioxide into chemical feedstock
A research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA) devised a cobalt-based catalyst system that works in water. The catalyst is the best when it comes to driving the reaction in water witho...
BMW mining deals shelved until EVs can be mass-produced
Luxury vehicle maker BMW won’t be signing any supply contracts for lithium and cobalt at least until 2020, when mass-producing electric vehicles (EVs) proves to be profitable...
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Cobalt, the technology-enabling material
The metal itself seems to have only been isolated in 1735 by G. Brandt, a Swedish scientist, and its metallic uses stem from Elwood Haynes’ studies and patents in the early 1900s. The Co-Cr (Cobalt-...
UCSD professor devises way to recycle lithium-ion batteries
The cathodes in the lithium-ion batteries typically used in electric vehicles, or EVs, are made of metal oxides that contain cobalt, a metal found in finite supplies and concentrated in one of the glo...
Sweden intensifies hunt for cobalt as the demand for electrical vehicles increases
Sweden will intensify efforts to find minerals such as cobalt and lithium, key battery components that are increasingly in demand among makers of electric vehicles.
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Cobalt cannot be eradicated from electric car batteries
Makers of electric vehicle batteries will have to keep using scarce, expensive cobalt in their products for the foreseeable future despite a push towards higher nickel compositions, materials technolo...
