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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...
New alloy made from iron, cobalt and manganese sets magnetism benchmark
Spintronics leverage electron spins to enhance solid-state devices, such as hard drives and cell phone components, by prolonging battery life. Now, a team of researchers from Montana State University...
Inorganic Cobalt metal in a new high-efficiency and cheapest catalyst for water electrolysis
A research team led by Professor Sangaraju Shanmugam of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST with the collaboration of the research group of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA, has f...
Cobalt Could Untangle Chips’ Wiring Problems
Intel and GlobalFoundries are replacing some copper connections with the resilient, conductive metal.
Today’s computer chips contain tens of kilometers of copper wiring, built up in 15 or so layers...
Vale looks to first-ever cobalt stream: report
Vale has hired Canada's Bank of Montreal (BMO) to raise around US$500 million from bidders for cobalt that would be produced at its Voisey's Bay nickel mine in eastern Canada
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Argus Metals Week 2018
The 10th Argus Metals Week will take place in London on 27 February – 2 March 2017. Alongside an expanded Battery Conference and SnWTa Summit, the 2018 event delivers more cobalt-dedicated sess...
Researchers develop a cheaper new fuel cell using cobalt
Researchers from the University of California have developed an inexpensive and efficient catalyst material for a new type of fuel cell which is made of porous carbon nanofibers embedded with a compou...
Introducing the Cobalt Industry Responsible Assessment Framework (CIRAF)
The Cobalt Institute (CI) members have had a longstanding commitment to the responsible production and use of cobalt in all forms which is enshrined in its 5 key Objectives and 7 Guiding Principles....